Sean of The Daily Rotation wrote, "Barry Levinson is an interesting director. Not many would expect that the Oscar winning director of Rain Man and Bugsy would be next in line to make a found footage horror film, but here it is, in the form of The Bay. While it’s definitely a found footage film, it’s a bit different in style than stuff like [REC] and The Blair Witch Project. The main feature is the wide range of different viewpoints. While there are characters that carry a single camera around, Levinson uses the prevalence of video cameras in modern society to depict an outbreak from all walks of life, from private vacations, to video chat sessions, to security cameras, and even cameras mounted in police cars."
Pixel Bedlam writes:
he Bay is artfully crafted, a successful exercise in blending various disparate, intermedia elements into a freaky, unique, cinematic patchwork of nightmares. Levinson proves his move into horror is no flight of fancy, casting an ominously effective spell and delivering an affecting assault on the senses that manages to be indelibly frightening while doing something blisteringly original with a well-worn format.
Hugely enjoyable, though you may think twice about going for a drink afterwards.
FilmFracture:
Here they are, the top ten horror movies of 2012 as compiled by FilmFracture's own horror aficionado, James Jay Edwards.
Radcliffe was pretty good in The Woman in Black, and it was nice to see him move on to a different type of role, from the role he held for over eight years. Though, in all honesty, there were a few scenes in the movie where I couldn't help but expect him to pull out his wand and use a patronus charm :)
Comingsoon: the film is the next installment in their series following INSIDIOUS, and chronicles an unprecedented biological disaster unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay- an isopod parasite, carrying a horrific untreatable disease, that jumps from fish to human hosts. The true horror and scope of the event unfolds on footage captured on home videos and the internet by the town's victims.
Awesome. I feel zombie starved ever since The Walking Dead ended. I'll never get sick of these kinds of movies.
Just so I don't get flamed. When I say 'zombie' I mean both dead/buried and infected/virus kinds. These are some of my favorite kinds of films. I just wish we had more of them.
Definitely sounds interesting. It's something I'll definitely keep an eye out on. I think Oren Peli and crew are pretty good.
That being said, it isn't there yet, but if they keep this up, they're going to seriously run this whole cinema verite/found-footage subgenre into the ground.
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