The Bay Reviews

I thought I'd give this movie a try since it seemed interesting even though I'm so sick of found footage films. To my surprise, this rises above most movies in this genre. This is labeled as a horror movie but, it's more psychological. For those of you attuned to found footage movies like the recent paranormal activity movies I suggest you look elsewhere.

Even though this movie was good, it does have it's share of problems. The biggest one being the ending. Which seems to be the case for a lot of found footage movies. It's not The Devil Inside bad but, it ends abruptly and doesn't offer a lot of closure. As the case with horror movies in general, the characters do head scratchingly dumb things. Of course it wouldn't be as much fun or scary if they did what a normal person would do in a situation like this. Once you accept this you'll enjoy the movie more. Though if there's dead bodies all over the place my first thought would be to get the hell away, not investigate.

There's really just one character, Donna. This is just a collection of videos put together while Donna tells us the story through a webcam. There's really no character to attatch too and Donna isn't really all that well developed. We get a couple of clips of her reporting during the midst of everything, but that's it. However, with a story like this you don't really need characters anyway, but it would have been nice if there was something to latch onto because I didn't feel all that sorry for the people who got it.

The story is intriguing and even though it's fake, it doesn't mean it can't happen. It's scary thought that something like this could happen. This reminds me of last year's Contagion. That movie was better but this was scarier. There are some jump scares and it has it's share of creepy moments as well as plenty of gore to keep the viewer engaged. The acting is effective even though not much was required frlm these people.

Overall, a nice edition to the found footage genre. The ending is a bit abrupt and there are really no characters, which means there's nothing to really latch onto. However, this is well made overall. It has some nice scares and gore but this is more psychological. It also puts a nice twist on the genre which puts it above most movies within this genre. This is a movie worth checking out.