No one is sure what it is or how it's transmitted, but as people start to behave strangely, and others turning up dead, fear spawns into panic. During the town's annual 4th of July Crab Festival, townspeople become sick, exhibiting a variety of symptoms, which leads local news reporters to suspect something has infected the water there.
(Do not Google them if you’re eating.) They may not be any more of a threat to us than any fictionalized horror villain, but they sure do serve as an effective metaphor for things that are.This "found-footage" film is set in 2009 in the town of Claridge, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay.
Unlike ghosts or aliens or Satan Himself, we can prove for a fact that cymothoa exigua exist. THE BAY is an ecological horror film – it engages in legitimate science and convincing pseudo-science, in order to force an audience to consider some very real environmental questions. Not only does THE BAY manage to stay honest and to circumvent all of the minor cheats of which most found-footage films are guilty, but he pushes the form to its maximum effectiveness, quite possibly creating a new genre in the process. Thrillingly, veteran director Barry Levinson takes on the found-footage craze in horror, and schools every-damn-body on how to do it. The story is unsparing, as it details gruesomely how bureaucratic negligence results in a horrific invasion of seaborne parasites that fairly well decimates a small Maryland town. Don’t get too used to any of them, by the way. She’s by far the most recognizable face in THE BAY, which is filled with a cast of excellent and effective but extremely little-known actors. I’m not comparing or contrasting here: The only thing the two movies have in common is a star, Kristen Connolly. It gets under your skin and into your head, the way the most disturbing horror movies do. Its staying power is in its enjoyability and its rewatchability, not its ability to get into your head and mess things up in there.
It doesn’t haunt your dreams or nightmares. THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is about as much fun as a movie can be, with at least one of the most exhilarating genre scenes in years (the “ System Purge” scene, of course). THE WOMAN IN BLACK and CITADEL stand out as great surprises, and yes, I loved THE CABIN IN THE WOODS almost as much as you, probably – believe me – I own on Blu-Ray and have re-watched it several times by now. When I wrote about THE BAY in 2012, I called it the best straight-up horror movie of the year.
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