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Sadly Over-hyped

good back-story, and good acting

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

While many found footage films rely on gimmicky things too hard to believe, The Bay covered all its bases to ensure it was a truly gripping and horrifying mockumentary.From the beginning we have the scientists trying to warn the people, the elites trying to cover it up and keep the profits flowing, the farmers not taking care of their sewage properly, an ancient creature that actually exists on this earth, the news crew that was filming (not some random teen deciding to film a trip in the woods). The sum of all of these things left you truly feeling that this could have actually happened and the government is covering it up.The only thing I wish had been different is the ending, though I had no real problem with it, personally would have done it different.

It takes Director Barry Levinson to hit a high mark with a "found footage" horror movie. Sure some shaky camera and a few plot holes concerning different opinions; but THE BAY is a keeper. A news reporter narrates and gives context to webcam, newsreel, security cam and digital cam footage to convey a documentary feel and atmosphere.A small Maryland town on the Chesapeake Bay has its July 4th celebration interrupted by an ecological situation that has ugly large parasites, invading the bodies of fish and humans. The community is contaminated by the "poop" of steroid enhanced chickens. These bugs eat their new found hosts from the inside out. Down right gruesome! Not a creature feature actually. Not a vampire or zombie flick; but a terror by disease movie. Even with gross and very disturbing images; you'll want to watch again with a couple of friends.The cast includes: Christopher Denham, Nansi Aluka, Stephen Kunken, Kristen Connolly, Frank Deal, Kether Donohue and Dave Hager.

The Bay seemed like a combination of Found-Footage and Documentary all rolled into one. Interesting. This I kinda liked. But I still didn't like the way I was fooled into thinking I was about to watch a horror film (based on how it was advertised in clips, teasers and previews). As it turns out, this was more like a "what-if-scenario". Or (more boldly) a propaganda movie funded by the likes of Peta or Green Peace and associates.Water is initially to blame. Then later, what is 'in' the water is finally pinpointed as the cause of death. But their findings and discoveries are too little, too late. Apparently Chicken doo-doo and nuclear waste have fornicated and offspring a nasty deadly parasite that eats the innards of its host. And boy what fun it has feasting. The fish of the Bay consume this tasty parasite first and quickly die, but this draws little attention or panic initially, until people start eating and drinking it secondly. And it don't take long for locals to realize that Alka-seltzer and Pepto-Bismol won't cure the indigestion, so (what else?) they flee to the hospital in droves...where they drop dead in numbers.There was also this nonsensical, back-and-forth communication (via Skype) between the local hospital and the CDC (Centers For Disease Control) that only wasted more time investigating this outbreak and not really taking it seriously until it was too late.This movie could have worked much better if the parasites that crawled up peoples asses turned them into Zombies or some other unmentionable Monstrosity that could have at least produced a new horror sub-genre. But instead, this movie (Shamelessly) purposely had its own Green-Party-Type agenda that (subliminally) wants to recruit a new generation of voters, lobbyist to fight for their cause. All these parasites did was turn them into bawling babies who ran to the hospital and die in the waiting-room while waiting to be seen by a doctor. And this was very boring to watch. And very much proves my point that we should contact our local Congressman to stop this madness before it starts.I still give this movie much props for not having the traditional "shaky-cam" that most found-footage films usually have (for that "so-called" realism-feel). But that credit is only enough to raise my rating to a 4/10. Because it damn near got a 3.

A covered-up-breaking-news-found-footage story.Capitalist investment pollutes the most beautiful estuary in America, and small town folk take the deadly hit via an organ devouring parasite.This is enjoyable, but insanely hectic. A multitude of visual/audio formats, POVs, unrelated characters + creature-feature bordering on zombie apocalypse with government conspiracy thrown in. Phew! We start with a wikileaks-type reporter exposing the cover up, while admitting her pants were too tight in the footage. Nice touch. Her footage gives a sweet view of small town America on the 4th of July as she interviews local yokels, including Ms Crustacean as the emblem of this crab fishing community. But ... the yokels start acting oddly, flash backs show a mounting concern amongst marine biologists, the authorities get steadily overwhelmed, and chaos ensues.I liked the way this was held together by the narrator (voice a bit bland), and the editing was very good. It doesn't really build to a pitch, and I guess they were casting around for specific jump scares toward the end. Cue a zombie from the back seat. There was a nice effect from voices crying out, but the director didn't dial it up.Overall there's a dilemma between atmospheric scares and choppy-choppy media techniques, and this film didn't solve it.But is it the future of horror? It had the reportage feel of World War Z (the novel - the film is very different), with a tighter story. Would be interesting to see something like this come out of Asia, where our environmental nightmares have been outsourced to eternal damnation.