On the 4th of July 2009, celebrations soon turned deadly for the close-knit community with the outbreak of toxicity discovered in the water- the basis of what the town thrives on, giving life to a parasite cymothoa exigua that quickly mutates through the residents! The opening moments of the film give off a bittersweet tone, viewing families enjoying themselves with the prior knowledge that complete devastation is about to be unleashed upon them. The Bay is told mainly through the eyes of aspiring reporter Donna Thompson (played by Kether Donohue) re-telling the tragedy of the idyllic seaside town located in Maryland. "The Bay" presents something real, but in the heightened and extreme dialect of movies.Decent found footage films are hard to come by within the genre due to the over-commercialized Paranormal Activity franchise and the predictable V/H/S however The Bay which has recently been released on DVD in the UK puts an effective spin on how to use this type of filmmaking effectively. And it's scary upon reflection, in that the horrors it depicts aren't fantastic, and they aren't from Mars. It's scary in the moment - this is a horror thriller that delivers, a nice belated Halloween present. The result is like a "Blair Witch Project" for thinking adults, one that's scary in two distinct ways. Events unfold as they would in life, with politicians reassuring the public with lies, and with everybody doing what people tend to do, which is to deny that something horrible is happening, until about two seconds before they're running down the street, waving their arms and shrieking. Part of the success of this thriller, a result of its mock documentary form, is that it seems true. The difference is that in "The Bay," these parasites are not just attacking fish but also human beings, specifically humans in the (fictional) small town of Claridge, Md., an idyllic little place where everything is wonderful - until everything goes really, really wrong. It's something you could all read about in David Kirby's nonfiction study, "Animal Factory." It talks about how these parasites grow so enormous that they can mutilate and kill. For example, the movie talks about a fish parasite that multiplies in size because of the growth hormone found in chicken feces dumped into the bay. There's a serious side to this Barry Levinson film, which is that the things described in "The Bay" are the merest exaggerations of things that have already happened or could happen. It didn't really happen, of course - we'd know about it, especially in an election year.īut "The Bay" isn't just a bunch of thrills, a prank to make audiences flinch and scream. Using eyewitness narration, home videos and (fake) surveillance footage, it tells the story of an environmental cataclysm that took place on July 4, 2009, but was hushed up by the authorities. It takes about 15 minutes to figure out that "The Bay" isn't a real documentary.
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