It's not clear how she got hold of this stuff the Pulitzer judges will clearly be pretty impressed.
#The bay 2012 review tv
Now Donna is blowing the gaff by aggregating her tapes from the day with an imposing array of CCTV and webcam footage, emergency service vehicle recordings, Skype conference calls between panicking officials, TV news output, video from deceased holidaymakers' cameraphones, and much else. Eventually, the town was quarantined, the critters were exterminated, the surviving townspeople were bribed to keep their mouths shut and the whole incident was hushed up. Warnings of potential risks had been ignored and, even as the body count mounted, officialdom was denying the danger. Hundreds of tonnes of steroid-rich excrement dumped into the sea from a local chicken farm had caused the mutation. It turned out that the culprit was a primitive fish parasite that had developed a taste for humans. The condition spread and hospitals were overwhelmed the disease control centre was baffled. These turned into blisters, boils and appalling lesions, resulting in horrible agony and a disgusting death. Then some of the frolickers came out in rashes. The sun shone, children paddled and contestants in a crab-eating competition cheerily threw up. Three years earlier, she was a callow intern covering Fourth of July celebrations in a small Maryland seaside resort for local TV. This is horror for grown-ups.ĭonna (played note-perfectly by Kether Donohue) is a novice journalist putting together a video exposé of a scandal that has been suppressed by the authorities. It's prompted by phenomena that could actually occur, or almost have done, and should therefore scare the rationally oriented even more than timorous types. Point two is that the terror evoked this time doesn't depend on fantasy fears about ghosts, aliens, cannibals or zombies. In so doing, it offers a fresh and arresting insight into the way we're now documenting our history. The Bay bursts through the home-video barrier to present not the record from a single camcorder but a comprehensive montage of the different kinds of audiovisual data, public and private, that were generated by the events it portrays. Go watch The Bay.A re you fed up with found footage? Think it's time the stratagem was moved up to the next level? You may even see the whole thing as a pointless gimmick. This story seems plausible, and that’s what creeps me out the most.Īnd freaking parasites! There’s nothing more terrifying than the thought of something growing inside me. The producers of Paranormal Activity and Insidious meshed perfectly, creating a work of horror superior to both the latter mentioned films. The acting, screenplay, and directing all came together in a horror trifecta. Fans of gore will love the later scenes of blood-spewing barf, half-eaten faces, and gritty parasitic carnage. Patience is a virtue in some horror films, what I thought was going to be a slow-paced film ended up as a legit teeth grinder. The Bay combines recently released footage of Skype calls from the town’s ER doctor to the CDC, switching back and forth from camera phones, local news coverage, and the research of two marine biologists looking into the recent bay activity caused by a local chicken farm dumping tons of chicken shit and steroids into a “filtered” local water system. I love the way the story is told through the Skype camera focused on Stephanie’s face during her reluctant interview filmed years after the incident. The hospital is eventually overrun with related cases, escalating intensely with each slimy step. A weird bacterial infection begins to surface, causing disgusting boils and blisters to form on the skin. Nothing happy and summery lasts in a horror film, so Stephanie’s world is going to transform into a young reporters big break. Framed with earnest and authentic acting, the festival brings a cool community vibe, showing us schmaltzy interviews entwined with the local festivities. Stephanie (Donohue) is new intern reporter for the summer, covering a Fourth of July crustacean festival in a small Maryland town. Finding legitimate ways of working found or candid footage into a plot is getting harder and harder to do, but The Bay slips in the backdoor with a convincing take with a multitude of camera angles and footage sources. It’s a numbers game really – if you watch enough movies, you eventually find some quality and creativity. The Bay had a cool trailer and ad campaign, but I rarely put much stock in the slew of horror movies taking up our time and words every year. I’ve said it before, but it’s so much fun to be surprised by a contemporary horror film. Starring: Kristen Connolly, Kether Donohue, Jane McNeill and Christopher DenhamĬhaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.