The Bay (2012) (original) (raw)

Barry Levinson directs this found footage horror in which a trainee journalist captures the chaos that afflicts a small US town when an infection breaks out that appears to stem from the water system. The illness produces symptoms such as vomiting, skin rashes and internal bleeding and spreads with such devastating swiftness that the town, Chesapeake Bay, is swiftly quarantined and its hospitals overrun. Among the human stories documented by young journalist Donna Thompson on her news camera are the efforts of Dr Jack Abrams to track down the source of the virus while also attempting to treat ...(more)

Barry Levinson directs this found footage horror in which a trainee journalist captures the chaos that afflicts a small US town when an infection breaks out that appears to stem from the water system. The illness produces symptoms such as vomiting, skin rashes and internal bleeding and spreads with such devastating swiftness that the town, Chesapeake Bay, is swiftly quarantined and its hospitals overrun. Among the human stories documented by young journalist Donna Thompson on her news camera are the efforts of Dr Jack Abrams to track down the source of the virus while also attempting to treat it and the horrifying discoveries that await police officers Jimson and Paul as they respond to 911 calls. However, has the worst consequence of the outbreak yet to make itself known? (less)

Director: Barry Levinson
Writers: Michael Wallach, Barry Levinson
Starring: Nansi Aluka, Christopher Denham, Stephen Kunken, Frank Deal, Kether Donohue, Kristen Connolly
Producer: Barry Levinson

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Review by Brian Orndorf, November 8, 2012

9 / 10

The found-footage experience has been a young man�s game in recent years, allowing hungry filmmakers a chance to tell a horror story on a shoestring budget, using the trendy subgenre to establish themselves. Enter Barry Levinson, the 70-year-old director of such hits as �Rain Man� and �The Natural,� who summons his years of experience and mature tastes to construct �The Bay,� a genuinely frightening production that�s easily the strongest, most plausible found-footage feature to date. Blending real-world environmental woes with a few wicked jolts of gore and public panic, Levinson cuts through ...read more...

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