The Bay
2012 · Movie · R · 85 min · ★ 5.8 · 71% critics
After strange die-offs hit a quiet seaside town on a holiday weekend, a fast-moving parasitic outbreak turns a celebration into a public health nightmare. Years later, a reporter assembles scattered recordings—phone videos, emergency calls, and webcams—to piece together what happened over one terrifying day and why it was kept quiet.
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Details
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2012-09-13
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 71/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (872 votes)
- Budget
- $2,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a found-footage-style outbreak thriller with a documentary feel, escalating panic, and unsettling body-horror moments; Not for you if you dislike shaky DIY footage or overt environmental messaging like in Helix.
Pros: tense real-time dread; inventive mixed-media format; creepy parasite premise | Cons: heavy-handed message; thin characterization; uneven scares
Themes
- zombie
- parasite
- found footage
- pov (point of view)
- cautionary tale
- multiple organisms
- pseudo-documentary
- faux documentary
- found footage adjacent
Cast & crew
Kristen Connolly
as Stephanie
Will Rogers
as Alex
Michael Beasley
as Officer Jimson
Christopher Denham
as Sam
Kenny Alfonso
as Doctor Michaels
Kether Donohue
as Donna Thompson
Anthony Reynolds
as Steve Slattery - Homeland Security Officer
Frank Deal
as Mayor Stockman
Kimberly Campbell
as Nurse Rebecca
Lamya Jezek
as Ms. Rosenblatt
Directed by Barry Levinson