My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Bay (2012)

This is a pretty effective found-footage horror film. I didn’t expect to enjoy this as much as I did. The whole found-footage subgenre keeps on trucking with film makers pushing the bounds of the concept. Here we follow an outbreak of a deadly parasite growing in the water supply of a small bayside community. Surprisingly Barry Levinson directs and to me that’s a cause of celebration; I love to see older film makers experiment and push past their artistic norms. There is a message of course behind this film and that’s to be careful what we do to our environment. It’s a bit over the top and obvious but that didn’t bother me so much, probably because it’s a true message. The real reason this film succeeds for me is the parasite concept. It’s just a terrifying idea that some parasite might explode out of you just because you had a drink of water. Grade: A-
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