The Bay Review

Barry Levinson's effective dip into found-footage shock territory plays much more like a documentary than a Blair Witch, piecing together a jigsaw-puzzle narrative from a huge number of credibly imagined sources: phone and surveillance cameras, Skype conversations, TV crew. The Bay of the title — Chesapeake, Maryland — is suffering an infestation of revolting flesh-eating isopods. At once a queasy body horror, a don’t-go-in-the-water yarn and an epidemic disaster movie, the film’s single-day narrative renders it a far bleaker experience than Soderbergh’s Contagion, where there was at least time enough to find a solution.