I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

It is a performances centric movie

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

The acting in this movie is really good.

From a technical point of view, this is one of the better "found footage" films to date. It uses various cameras from various locations and quality. Donna "my pants are too tight" Thompson (Kether Donohue) is reporting, and not too well, on the July 4th activities in the bay town of Claridge, Md. Everything is fun and games until people start to blister and die.The film is told as a bad documentary by design. It managed to hold my interest for 45 minutes at which point I started to get bored, even with the material they weren't repeating. The film utilizes real facts about Chesapeake Bay and isopods as well as actual footage of the creatures which you think are fake.The idea was to draw attention to the problem of the bay because no one watched the Frontline documentary on poisoned waters and even fewer people cared (from director's interview). The problem is that the terror created by isopods didn't come across as terrifying as I found my self concentrating Donohue's tight pants trying to will a button to pop.I enjoyed the realism more in this film than the "Paranormal" series. I also liked the idea of bringing a message to the film. Now if we could take the next step and make it entertaining. This could be done with a witty soundtrack and/or clever dialogue. Maybe having Trey Parker/Matt Stone smoking a joint saying, "Dudes they're isopods, not Crab People."Parental Guide: F-bombs (spoken and text). No sex or nudity. Tight pants that the button never pops.

Summary: I really liked The Bay, because it looked realistic and its plot is thought-provoking. 61/100 (C+)Directed by the academy award winner Barry Levinson and produced by Jason Blum, "The Bay" is an above-average, found-footage horror film. First, let me say that the trailer is great, the premise is terrific and Barry Levinson is a very talented director. The entire film feels quite genuine, the found-footage adds lots of veracity and the acting is quite good. I really liked the performance of the news reporter. Moving on, even though its running time is very short (84 min), it didn't deliver enough scares or entertainment to me. Everything was kind of boring, but I give it credit because it looked extremely real the whole time.I'm pretty sure that a huge part of the audience that disliked The Bay did not even try to understand the message of the movie. This ecological issue could actually happen in real life! It was so thought-provoking. Moving on, as I said the performances were great, just some extras were kinda weak. Kether Donohue's performance was excellent, she's a news reporter in the film and is documenting all the catastrophe in this little town; her character was dynamic and smart. In addition, she's not the only one important here, throughout the film we can see some scientists talking through Skype about this parasite and all these scenes were quite effective and interesting.Do not expect jump-scares or lots of gore. This movie is more about scientists, laboratories, death fishes, people infected in hospitals and stuff like that. The Bay boasts a thought-provoking story about public services, in this case water contaminated, eww. Levinson cares about the human perspective and he gives us some nice camera shots in hospitals and streets. He smartly uses a found-footage style to present us his intriguing tale. Although at times he forgot how to maintain the film entertaining, I was satisfied by the end of it. I remember that I kept looking at a glass of water for minutes thinking... where does it come from? How clean is it?It was very thrilling sometimes and it had two or three effective jump- scares, but two of them are in the trailer. A huge part of the scares and surprises were spoiled by the trailer, so please don't see it. Overall, it's one of the most believable found-footage films I've seen, even though it was not as entertaining as I thought. I only recommend it if you like documentaries or movies about ecological issues, pandemics or virus. The Bay is a horror film for a very specific audience, this is not that type of horror movie which you watch with some friends at night. I recommend you to see it alone, and judge it by yourself. (C+)

I was surprised when I saw this scary movie was directed by Barry Levinson (Diner, The Natural; Good Morning, Vietnam, Rain Man), the description for it sounded good, and it was rated well by critics, so I was looking forward to whatever it had to offer. Basically the film opens explaining that the footage was confiscated by the U.S. government until an anonymous source leaked the footage for the entire world to see. On July 4th 2009, Independence Day, a seaside town in Claridge, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay, thrives on water and is ready to celebrate the annual Crab Festival. But two researchers find the water has a staggering level of toxicity, Mayor Stockman (Frank Deal) is alerted, but he refuses to take action fearing it will cause a panic, and the result is a deadly plague being unleashed. The outbreak is thought to have been caused by a combination of agricultural pesticides, random pollutants, and steroids-in-chicken-manure that have been dumped into the bay, whatever it is it has turned humans into hosts for a deadly, mutant breed of the parasite Cymothoa exigua, i.e. parasitic crustacean isopods. The creatures start infecting townspeople one by one, several stories are seen as the overwhelming chaos takes over, particularly local young inexperienced news reporter Donna Thompson (Kether Donohue) and her cameraman, who were reporting on the 4th of July festivities , she is also explaining the occurrences in an off-screen personal recording. Other stories seen include two oceanographers who first discovered the parasites, two police officers on duty investigating the residential area, a young unsuspecting couple swimming in the lake, a teenage girl sending a desperate message to a friend on FaceTime, Dr. Jack Abrams (Stephen Kunken) informing the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the developing situation at the local hospital, and a young married couple with an infant aboard sailing on a vessel toward the family home, unaware of the horrific unfolding events on the mainland. Also starring Will Rogers as Alex, The Cabin in the Woods' Kristen Connolly as Stephanie, Argo's Christopher Denham as Sam, Nansi Aluka as Jaquline, Kimberly Campbell as Nurse Rebecca, Beckett Clayton-Luce as Charles and Dave Hager as Fisher Jerry. The combination of "found footage" from news broadcasts, phone cameras, Skype, CCTV and webcam, accompanied by narration of the young newscaster, makes for an interesting take on the scary movie genre, you could call it a cross between Paranormal Activity and Jaws, and of course the special effects make up and little CGI to bring the isopods and their hideous body eating antic to life is fantastic, it is scary to think that isopods are real, it is well put together and definitely gives you the jitters, a terrific horror thriller. Very good!

The Blair Witch Project cursed us with found footage and the whole raft of truly awful films. So when I discovered it was a found footage film my heart sank and the TV presented saying "there is something in the water that does not want to stay in the water" my heart further sank I thought we would have Godzilla on found footage. This is more of a horror documentary which does not overdose on gore, I watched the awful Into the Storm which made the mistake of having a really flimsy sub plot which did not work, The Bay has no real sub plot but has a claustrophobic terror and a few jolts such as when the creature jumps from the fish's mouth, the blood dropping down onto the reporter and the woman in the back of the police car. This is an excellent concept and although classed as found footage does not go overboard with jerky camera work.