The Bay

This 80-minute montage of fictional reporting that is about as inventive as a half-hour TV report on the evening news, except it’s fictional and thus has no impact on the viewer at all. No reoccurring characters, no surprises or frights. In the 1970s, The Bay would have been noteworthy as the first representative of this particular subgenre, but today it’s just an insignificant DVD title with an alluring cover. A very weak two stars. (10/15/2014)

Barry Levinson also goes down the path of shots where we see nothing, the image freezes, the camera captures nothing that is visible, only creating the impression of terror. A few years ago, an absolute bomb, now simply another piece that fits into the series of similar ones and stands out only by slightly better processing and developing of the story, where you feel that it truly happens. (11/26/2013)

I can rationally appreciate the interesting concept and its good and convincing execution, but The Bay can’t entertain me just with that. Due to its report character, the film doesn’t work as horror, and doesn’t even try to, it’s wannabe unsettling, rather. I don’t know, I didn’t get much out of it. I prefer a real documentary about real problems or a normal horror flick about parasites. (11/16/2012)