![]() ![]() But Levinson says the combination emerged organically, and you can’t find a hint of condescension to the audience here. ![]() It’s probably fair to say that this movie resembles a cross between “Cloverfield” and David Cronenberg’s early parasite horror flick “Shivers” (aka “They Came From Within”), with an overlay of eco-documentary. While “The Bay” has nothing to do with weather or climate, at least not directly, it’s a claustrophobic media narrative about the Atlantic seaboard under attack, and also aspires to be an ecological fable about the dire “new normal” we have inflicted on our environment.įor Levinson, a 70-year-old veteran of both independent and Hollywood films who made the classic coming-of-age comedy "Diner" and won an Oscar in 1989 for directing Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man,” “The Bay” marks a startling new direction, even an oddly inspiring one. One thing is for sure: This movie’s release this week is an uncanny example of either good or bad timing. ![]() If you’ve spent much of the last week indoors, possibly without power or with standing water in your house, you may not want or need to see “The Bay,” Barry Levinson’s crude but highly unsettling found-footage disaster movie about a mysterious water-borne illness that devastates a small town’s Fourth of July celebration. ![]()
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