History Film / TheBay

* TheDanza - One of the women interviewed by Dr. Abrams right after the outbreak is a woman named Lamya Jezek... played by Lamya Jezek.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/BarryLevinson is better known as the director of films like ''RainMan'' and ''{{Diner}}''.

''[[{{Film/TheBay}} The Bay]]'' is a 2012 found footage horror film from the producer of ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' and ''Film/{{Insidious}}''. It was directed by Barry Levinson and written by Michael Wallach.

* PlayingAgainstType: Barry Levinson is better known as the director of films like ''RainMan'' and ''{{Diner}}''.

* AdultFear: There is a mysterious and quickly spreading epidemic going around town. The hospital and other medical facilities are overrun and the medical personnel have never seen anything like this. Your neighbors are dying in horrific pain and are being mutilated by unseen forces. That alone is terrifying, but the horror gets worse as parents are watching their children get sick and being unable to do anything about it.

* FreezeFrameBonus: When the characters are doing a web search for information on the creatures, you can see a piece of artwork by [[{{Tropers/Scythemantis}} John Wojcik]], of ''{{Bogleech}}'' and ''{{Mortasheen}}'' fame, whose nature articles focusing on especially disturbing wildlife are largely responsible for the popularity the [[spoiler:Cymothoa exigua]] has gained on the internet.

** Not to mention that [[spoiler:vertebrate hormones, even [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke biotechnologically altered ones]] probably wouldn't have much of an effect on crustaceans].

** Also played straight in that baby Andrew survives.

''[[{{Film/TheBay}} The Bay]]'' is a 2012 found footage horror film from the producer of ''{{Paranormal Activity}}'' and ''{{Insidious}}''. It was directed by Barry Levinson and written by Michael Wallach.

* PiranhaProblem: [[spoiler:The adult isopods swarm anyone who goes into the water, biting and burrowing into them.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: At one point in the film, a fisherman pulls up a fish with [[spoiler:one of the mutant isopods in its mouth. He's holding the fish with his thumb in its mouth, and the isopod lunges out and attacks his arm, after which it scuttles off the deck with equally impressive speed. The real life speed of ''Cymothoa exigua'' is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg3IRJz6jZk rather less impressive.]] In addition, ''C. exigua'' feeds on blood, not flesh.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation / DespairEventHorizon: When Officers Jimson and Paul investigate a house where neighbors have reported hearing screaming, [[spoiler:Officer Jimson]] discovers the living and partially devoured residents who beg him to kill them. [[spoiler:He does so and is driven insane by what's happening to them. He ends up killing his partner and then later fatally shoots the sheriff and himself.]]

* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler:The isopods are mutant ''Cymothoa exigua'', also called the tongue-eating louse.[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua]] Guess what they do to some victims?]]

* MotherOfAThousandYoung: What the bay's cocktail of hormones and steroids from industrial chicken farm pollution has turned [[spoiler:the female isopods]] into.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When Officers Jimson and Paul investigate a house where neighbors have reported hearing screaming, [[spoiler:Officer Jimson]] discovers the living and partially devoured residents who beg him to kill them. [[spoiler:He does so and is driven insane by what's happening to them. He ends up killing his partner and then later fatally shoots the sheriff and himself.]]
* GreenAesop: The film reminds viewers that pollution can have a devastating impact on public health. In real life, the Chesapeake Bay has been polluted for decades by farm runoff, among other things.

* HellIsThatNoise: The sourceless screaming of the [[spoiler:isopod victims, as the parasites near maturity.]]

* ApocalypticLog: This is what some of the footage is, particularly the videos left by Dr. Michaels, the head doctor who must deal with the outbreak at the local hospital, and Jennifer, a young girl who records the progress of her infection via a Skype/[=YouTube=]-like web app.

* MedicalHorror - Of the mysterious incurable plague kind.

* ApocalypticLog: This is what some of the footage is, particularly the videos left by Dr. Michaels, the head doctor who must deal with the outbreak at the local hospital, and Jennifer, a young girl who records the progress of her infection via a Skype/YouTube-like web app.

''{{The Bay}}'' is a 2012 found footage horror film from the producer of ''{{Paranormal Activity}}'' and ''{{Insidious}}''. It was directed by Barry Levinson and written by Michael Wallach.

Welcome to Claridge, Maryland, on scenic Chesapeeake Bay. Come for the Fourth of July celebration, stay for the seafood, and never mind the chicken farms dumping pollution into the bay or the two dead marine biologists they found last week. But when the festivities are interrupted by a mysterious illness, fear leads to panic…