I love bad horror but this movie was annoying horror. I don't even mind bad acting but this movie had annoying acting. The Female lead (reporter) thinks talking in Vocal Fry makes Her acting seem real but She's just trying to convince Herself that She is comfortable in front of a camera. It plays like a demo reel. Everyone else is terrible too. Too bad. The story was good for the genre and the filmmakers did a great job with the budget. To bad the actors ruined it.

While many found footage films rely on gimmicky things too hard to believe, The Bay covered all its bases to ensure it was a truly gripping and horrifying mockumentary.From the beginning we have the scientists trying to warn the people, the elites trying to cover it up and keep the profits flowing, the farmers not taking care of their sewage properly, an ancient creature that actually exists on this earth, the news crew that was filming (not some random teen deciding to film a trip in the woods). The sum of all of these things left you truly feeling that this could have actually happened and the government is covering it up.The only thing I wish had been different is the ending, though I had no real problem with it, personally would have done it different.

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.

Retelling her story to the authorities, a reporter who initially survived a deadly encounter narrates the footage of an attack on a small town by a mutant parasite and what actually happened during the incident.Overall this was quite a nice surprise that really offers some enjoyable moments here. One of the better elements within this is the rather impressive manner in which the found-footage aspect of the storyline works here, taking it along a more documentarian style rather than the straight-forward one-shooter aspect so prominent in the genre to tell a far more wide-reaching story than would otherwise be possible. Allowing the different sources and their origins here, from skype and video-chat to security camera feeds, home video and much more here, this one not only feels more like a genuine, authentic movie by being able to notice different vantage points and styles quite easily which does help to take out the isolated and impersonal approach taken with the usual found- footage tactics. That also allows for some rather intense and brutal sequences here, as the initial attacks along the film provide this with the a more realistic and thrilling form of outbreak here with the rash of bodily disfigurements and general trauma as well as the more severe outings like the vomiting and bloodletting from the different orifices give this a truly ringing naturalistic feel that comes off incredibly well while providing this with tons of outstanding gore and thrilling attacks. The constant nature of the rampage across town makes for some more fun as well, and there's a lot to like about the final half that manages to up the intensity of the encounters significantly, adds the right amount of scientific explanations for the creatures and how to handle them and manages to feature some really thrilling moments that are quite suspenseful and chilling while keeping the action quite exciting. There here are more than enough to hold off the few small flaws here, which does start with the storyline here. The main issue with this one is the fact that there's no real basis here for how exactly the creatures end up appearing in the area as the fact that this one expends so much time on the biological aspects of their origins that there's just no reality to how they would end up there. The series of circumstances and flawed rationale in order to make that a reality is quite absurd and really seems to be about telling the ecological principles more than the actual horror of the creatures attacking, which is really troubling to get into and doesn't make much sense. Likewise, the found-footage aspect of this is a little hard to get into with this one tending to revert back to a lot of the problems associated with the format, and as a whole these drag this down enough to keep it from where it could've been.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.