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Where Cloverfield kept to monster movie cliches and had teen soap opera dramatics happening in the midst of the action, Levinson concentrates on depicting a widescale incident occurring from multiple points-of-view. Levinson does cheat somewhat – including music on the soundtrack and flashbacks to from before the incident to footage of oceanographers and activists that is inserted for dramatic effect in a way that makes no chronological sense.īarry Levinson achieves far more sobering and impressive impact than another Found Footage film like Cloverfield, which has a number of nominal similarities to The Bay. Barry Levinson takes more of a piecemeal approach, telling multiple stories using a variety of different video formats – from security camera footage, news broadcasts and CDC video conferences, as well as the reliable Found Footage standard of the camcorder in the middle of action. The Bay is not strictly 100% Found Footage – at least, in the sense that most of the other films such as Diary of the Dead, and others are, pretending to be one continuous stream of video footage taken while the central characters are running through the midst of the action. The Bay is also produced by Oren Peli who spawned much of the current Found Footage fad as director of Paranormal Activity and oversaw its various sequels, as well as Greg and Colin Strause, directors of AVPR: Aliens vs Predator Requiem (2007) and Skyline (2010), and their Hydraulx (frequently credited as ) visual effects company (who also provide the effects), and Jason Blum, a partner of Peli whose Blumhouse production company would become a major player in medium-budget horror within the next couple of years. Levinson had ventured into genre material on a number of occasions with the likes of the Steven Spielberg backed Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), the wonderfully underrated gonzo flop Toys (1992) and the Michael Crichton adaptations Disclosure (1994) and Sphere (1998).
Aside from George Romero with Diary of the Dead, The Bay marks one of the few occasions when an established director – Barry Levinson who has been at work in film for more than twenty years – has ventured into the field, most other Found Footage efforts being made by novice directors.īarry Levinson has a highly respected reputation as a director of mainstream films such as Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning Vietnam (1987), Rain Man (1988) and Bugsy (1991).
There have been an enormous number of other films using this form with the likes of The Great American Snuff Film (2003), Incident at Loch Ness (2004), Amateur Porn Star Killer (2007) and sequels, Diary of the Dead (2007), The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), (2007), Cloverfield (2008), Lake Mungo (2008), Evil Things (2009), Atrocious (2010), Haunted Changi (2010), The Last Exorcism (2010), The Troll Hunter (2010), Apollo 18 (2011), Back from Hell (2011), 388 Arletta Avenue (2011), The Tunnel (2011), Chronicle (2012), The Devil Inside (2012), V/H/S (2012), Afflicted (2013), The Frankenstein Theory (2013), Frankenstein’s Army (2013), As Above So Below (2014), Black Water Vampire (2014), Devil’s Due (2014) and Project Almanac (2015). The Bay is a film made in the Found Footage format that has become all the in-thing in the last few years following the success of the likes of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007).
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