Barry Levinson's THE BAY

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/4/12 at 4:47pm

Odd movie-going experience. I went because I was bored as hell and I had heard it was a good horror flick, even if it was done in the passe "found footage" genre, which I can't deal with. That's really all I knew about it. I was one of five people in the audience.

Not hard to see why folks don't want to see this movie. Shortly after it started, I began to feel like I didn't want to sit through it. An environmental disaster film! Just what someone who has dealt with a hurricane needs!

When all is said and done, however, this is by far the best of the "found footage" horror flicks. All the pitfalls that make this genre insufferable are obliterated: It has excellent pacing, fine acting, and reasonably sympathetic characterizations.

The horror stuff is the usual "BOO!" material, but you gotta hand it to Levinson: He made a horror film with an original premise that feels terrifyingly plausible. The message of the flick will scare the hell out of you much more than the horror film set pieces.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/6/13 at 12:55pm

It came out on DVD yesterday and I watched it last night.

It was surprisingly good, excellent even.

I was totally freaked out by it. On the extras Levinson explains that 90% of the information is fact.

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Obviously the creature part is fiction, but the 40% lifelessness, the chicken run-off, the steroids, even the tiny isopods are all real.

That scene where the oceanographer extracts a lice size isopod from the fish - completely real. Not cgi. That was an actual fish and an actual isopod.

Which should make you basically never want to swim or eat fish again.

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Definitely recommended.

Updated On: 3/6/13 at 12:55 PM