And while the Chesapeake backdrop does add a sense of realism to the final product, it also heightens the director's occasionally self-indulgent view of social ignorance and bureaucratic apathy. It's your typical eco-disaster flick, featuring elements of other outbreak horror films such as Contagion, Quarantine and Parasite. In terms of raw content, The Bay is nothing really new.
We're also introduced to an affluent wife and mother, Stephanie (Kristen Connolly), whose husband falls prey to the disease. At different points in the rural town, various people are devoured from the inside out as the local hospital is overrun with infected patients.
The tale centers on a young reporter, Donna (Kether Donohue), who has emerged with a compilation of footage revealing an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak of prehistoric isopods. Like so many of these found footage movies "The Bay" employs cheats which it tries to get away with by having the whole thing being kind of presented by Donna who then can explain things such as why we have footage of two scientists, they were keeping a video journal of their research if you are interested in why.Created in lieu of an abandoned documentary about the ruinous environmental state of the Chesapeake, Barry Levinson's The Bay depicts the grisly events that unfold over a 4th of July celebration. But like the fool I am when someone told me "The Bay" was one of these found footage movies which actually works I thought I would give it a go and like 9 out of 10 times it doesn't work. I don't like found footage movies, I don't care for faux documentaries and as a rule I try to avoid them because more often than not to make them work they employ far too many cheats. But having been left traumatised by what happened that day journalist Donna Thomson sets about putting together what footage she can to bring the truth to the public. In the years since those in charge have tried to cover up what happened that day, confiscating footage and anything else which may bring to the public awareness what happened and what may have caused this outbreak. As the bay town of Claridge, Maryland swings in to gear for their 2009, 4th of July celebrations all hell breaks loose as people start falling ill with their body's breaking out in seeping blisters whilst strange crimes start to unfold with people losing parts of their tongues.
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