Silence So, I'm like, this is so so real. (spoilers) Except 4 they missed the boat on the part about Siphonostomatoida infesting "farmed" fish. So so so needs a remake ... (spoilers) With, like farmed fish & farmed chickens being in like co-hoots. O, & yer Blooger kanna keep her tongue in her moufs. K? I'm beggin' ya. Way more peeps getting half eatin' & beggin' 4 death too! Things that worked: Jumping in the drink. Researchers bickering. Peeps getting half eaten. The Government in the states sitting on they hands. What I had some issues with: The Mayor. The moaning Howling screaming in the distance could have been great. No lawless looters vigilante kill 'em all types coming out to kick up they heels.

Andariel Halo Taking advantage of horror movies available on amazon prime, this was a title I had passed over for many weeks. I only came back to it today after a slew of horrific-looking B movies and ancient alien/illuminati "documentaries" crapping up Amazon's horror section and this was one that didn't have a paranormal or Christian vibe to it so I checked it out. I was highly skeptical of it using apparently a real or a series of real events involving mass fish die-offs, as well as the slight emphasis on "big government coverup", although thankfully that aspect was not hammered on us so painfully as things like the discovery channel's Mermaids "mockumentary" movie which was 50% bad CG mermaids, 50% "the maaan keeping it suppressed, maaan". this film covers an apparently fictional event in a fictional Maryland town by Chesapeake Bay happening during the July 4 celebrations in 2009, as told via found footage and an interview with a novice reporter via skype who was on the scene at the time. When the "shiz going wrong" part arrives, it unfolds in a very disease-oriented way, focusing on the spread of horrid body lesions and sores on various people. Escalation from there seems to follow no clear pattern, and at one point I thought this was going to be a Zombie Outbreak type thing (I'm not personally against that sort of thing) while not explicitly suggesting otherwise with certain filmed events. What we get instead unfolds in a way that is realistic, at times highly technical, and beautifully paced, to a point where I felt I was near the end and wished the movie were twice as long. I just wanted more, even knowing that a bit more would probably spoil the experience or make it overly long. That's the first time a horror movie has ever made me feel that way.

Michael O'Keefe It takes Director Barry Levinson to hit a high mark with a "found footage" horror movie. Sure some shaky camera and a few plot holes concerning different opinions; but THE BAY is a keeper. A news reporter narrates and gives context to webcam, newsreel, security cam and digital cam footage to convey a documentary feel and atmosphere.A small Maryland town on the Chesapeake Bay has its July 4th celebration interrupted by an ecological situation that has ugly large parasites, invading the bodies of fish and humans. The community is contaminated by the "poop" of steroid enhanced chickens. These bugs eat their new found hosts from the inside out. Down right gruesome! Not a creature feature actually. Not a vampire or zombie flick; but a terror by disease movie. Even with gross and very disturbing images; you'll want to watch again with a couple of friends.The cast includes: Christopher Denham, Nansi Aluka, Stephen Kunken, Kristen Connolly, Frank Deal, Kether Donohue and Dave Hager.

bigbenjr48 The Bay seemed like a combination of Found-Footage and Documentary all rolled into one. Interesting. This I kinda liked. But I still didn't like the way I was fooled into thinking I was about to watch a horror film (based on how it was advertised in clips, teasers and previews). As it turns out, this was more like a "what-if-scenario". Or (more boldly) a propaganda movie funded by the likes of Peta or Green Peace and associates.Water is initially to blame. Then later, what is 'in' the water is finally pinpointed as the cause of death. But their findings and discoveries are too little, too late. Apparently Chicken doo-doo and nuclear waste have fornicated and offspring a nasty deadly parasite that eats the innards of its host. And boy what fun it has feasting. The fish of the Bay consume this tasty parasite first and quickly die, but this draws little attention or panic initially, until people start eating and drinking it secondly. And it don't take long for locals to realize that Alka-seltzer and Pepto-Bismol won't cure the indigestion, so (what else?) they flee to the hospital in droves...where they drop dead in numbers.There was also this nonsensical, back-and-forth communication (via Skype) between the local hospital and the CDC (Centers For Disease Control) that only wasted more time investigating this outbreak and not really taking it seriously until it was too late.This movie could have worked much better if the parasites that crawled up peoples asses turned them into Zombies or some other unmentionable Monstrosity that could have at least produced a new horror sub-genre. But instead, this movie (Shamelessly) purposely had its own Green-Party-Type agenda that (subliminally) wants to recruit a new generation of voters, lobbyist to fight for their cause. All these parasites did was turn them into bawling babies who ran to the hospital and die in the waiting-room while waiting to be seen by a doctor. And this was very boring to watch. And very much proves my point that we should contact our local Congressman to stop this madness before it starts.I still give this movie much props for not having the traditional "shaky-cam" that most found-footage films usually have (for that "so-called" realism-feel). But that credit is only enough to raise my rating to a 4/10. Because it damn near got a 3.