The bay 2012 review movie#
Trigger Warning –This is a horror movie review/ discussion so will contain images and themes that may disturb. Some unknown but all have touched me in some way and I hope will you too.
The bay 2012 review series#
Movies I love… In this series I’ll be introducing you to films that I love and try to persuade you to watch them. The ending is somewhat of a letdown and will surely divide people who see this, but it is worth seeing just to see that a good idea, well executed can mean a found footage film needn’t be stupid and/or a waste of potential.New thing. Whilst this is not the greatest film in the world, or indeed the scariest, it does convey a constant sense of unease throughout which puts it head and shoulders above a lot horror these days. It is only when the size of the problem is too great to deal with that people realize what is happening. There is a constant sense of unease about the place as people react to a series of seemingly unconnected incidents through their own world view. This is a small scale-story told through the inter-connecting tales of a number of different characters. This isn’t Jaws in that the terror is confined to the waters, nor is it something like The Host where a big creature is running amok in the city. Bad stuff is put into the water, sea creatures mutate into unstoppable killing machines, chaos ensues.
At its heart it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. This is very much an eco-horror movie with a strong “pollution is bad” moral to it. However, the ending is not entirely satisfactory and I suspect it will split viewer’s opinions Whilst a lot of films scrimp and save on effects (and as a by-product, scares) for a big though often unimpressive finale, The Bay sidesteps that trap. The shots of sores and blisters and partially digested flesh are unpleasant and are used rather sparingly to increase the impact and, one suspects, to hide their relative cheapness. He does a good job balancing what the audience needs to see with maintaining an authentic amateur documentary feel to the project.īy making the monster essentially invisible it intends to scare on a base level, as well as saving on special effects in a much more efficient manner than the deeply disappointing Chernobyl Diaries. Part of the credit goes to the script, part goes to director Barry Levinson ( Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, Sleepers). Every scene has almost by default, a sense of peril because we know what is going on even when the characters don’t. There are a couple of slightly clunky moments, but for the most part it is solid.
At times however, it does fall back onto the old “why are you filming this?” question which inevitably pops up in such films, but for the most part it seems a perfectly reasonable setup.įor a low budget film, both the acting (from as cast of relative unknowns) and the script (from single IMDB credit Michael Wallach) are pretty decent. Struggling to work out what is going on, he videochats with the Centre for Disease Control, which in turns allows us to see how the outside world is reacting to the outbreak.
The bay 2012 review full#
Even the hospital scenes are well done with people recording the full waiting rooms for one reason or another, but more important here is the role of Doctor Michaels (played by Kenny Alfonso). By setting it at a carnival it gives an excuse for a lot of people to be recording the initial proceedings and making the protagonist a journalist allows the filming to continue throughout. Somewhat surprisingly this idea actually works. This is how the film continues throughout, with voiceovers and subtitles to provide context for what we’re seeing. Our journalist has now spliced together the footage to create a documentary to “expose” the cover-up and the tragedy of what happened on that July 4th weekend. We then learn this footage was stolen and leaked by a Wikileaks type hacking group (mmm, topical). We are informed, via a webcam interview, that this (and all associated footage) was covered up by the US government. The story is told by a former journalist, Donna (played by Kether Donohue) who just happened to be there with her cameraman covering a fluff piece about some festival or another. The Bay tells the story of a quiet town by the sea which has untold horrors thrust upon them from beneath the water. “Oh no,” I hear you cry, “not another one!” Yes, another one. Horror film The Bay is, you’ve guessed it, a found footage movie.
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