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The Bay

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The Bay	comment	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 Chesapeake 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…Not to be confused with the Canadian department store chain that was once the Hudson's Bay Company. Also it has nothing to do with Michael Bay.
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The Bay / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Bay / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: At one point in the film, a fisherman pulls up a fish with 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 rather less impressive. In addition, C. exigua feeds on blood, not flesh. Finally, while the two previous breaks from reality are probably justified by the fact that these are mutated isopods, there's the fact that real isopod larvae don't look like grubs. Isopods undergo hemimetabolism (incomplete metamorphosis), so an isopod larva looks like a tiny version of an adult. Vertebrate hormones, even biotechnologically altered ones probably wouldn't have much of an effect on crustaceans. The Real Life isopod of which these are allegedly mutations doesn't actually eat fishes' tongues, but latches onto and drains blood from them until the tongue atrophies over several weeks. Even allowing that pollutants could cause isopods to grow that fast, it certainly wouldn't cause the humans' metabolic rate to accelerate enough to speed up the tongue-shrinkage process to a matter of hours. The tongue-eating isopod is also an obligately marine organism, with saltwater-adapted gills and fluid-balance mechanisms. As such, it wouldn't be able to survive in a freshwater environment, let alone in one where the surrounding liquid it's trying to breathe is stomach acid and/or saliva.
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The Bay / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
The Bay / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: Officer Jimson mercy killing some victims and Officer Paul is only heard through an audio recording.
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The Bay / int_1c512c6c	type	The Swarm
The Bay / int_1c512c6c	comment	The Swarm: The adult isopods swarm anyone who goes into the water, biting and burrowing into them.
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The Bay / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Bay / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Homeland Security admits to the CDC that they delayed sending the autopsy reports on the two oceanographers to the CDC due to not wanting to cause any panic.
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The Bay / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Bay / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Although the film is fairly unrelentingly grim throughout, the inclusion of the young Miss Crustacean appearing again as one of the dead bodies in Main Street, having been ravaged by crustaceans is certainly a deliberate irony.
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The Bay / int_23f80ecd	type	Devoured by the Horde
The Bay / int_23f80ecd	comment	Devoured by the Horde: The oceanographers and a teenaged couple are mutilated by a swarm of fully-grown isopods.
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The Bay / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Bay / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: A number of small children in the beginning footage have the blisters and rash. One of the Apocalyptic Logs contains the deaths of two teenagers and we later see the body of Jennifer in Dr. Abrams's final video.
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The Bay / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Bay / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Jennifer's parents abandon her almost immediately when she starts showing signs of infection.
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The Bay / int_2dc35926	type	Ghost Ship
The Bay / int_2dc35926	comment	Ghost Ship: While sailing across the bay into Claridge, Stephanie and Alex pass an abandoned sailboat drifting aimlessly across the water with no sign of its crew - or what happened to them].
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The Bay / int_2dc3e97c	type	Ghost Town
The Bay / int_2dc3e97c	comment	Ghost Town: By the time Stephanie and Alex arrive in town at 9:26 PM, Claridge has been almost completely depopulated, bodies littering the streets; the only people left alive are lucky survivors like Donna - or victims who are in the process of succumbing.
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The Bay / int_2f15a52	type	Instant Fish Kill
The Bay / int_2f15a52	comment	Instant Fish Kill: Played for horror; towards the end of the film, the coast guard begins reporting tons of dead fish floating just beyond the bay.
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The Bay / int_33d0b177	type	Attack of the Town Festival
The Bay / int_33d0b177	comment	Attack of the Town Festival: One of the reasons Mayor John Stockman continually attempts to ignore and downplay the dangers of the isopod infestation is that he doesn't want to lose tourism dollars during the town's Fourth of July event.
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The Bay / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Bay / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Donna tells us in the beginning about the deaths of Dr. Abrams and her cameraman.
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The Bay / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Bay / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: It's left unclear how Jim dies, though it's implied he was killed by the isopods while the government quarantined the town.
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The Bay / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Bay / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: It initially looks as if Donna and her cameraman are going to be documenting everything right up to the end of the disaster. However, once Donna gets the bejesus scared out of her by a horribly mangled victim, her footage abruptly concludes, with Donna narrating that she was too scared to film anything else. After all, she wasn't documenting anything for official purposes like Abrams or trying to stay in contact with loved ones like Jennifer, so why would she keep filming once she realized her life was in danger? Similarly, after Alex is killed, Stephanie stops filming altogether, instead focusing her efforts entirely on getting her and baby Andrew out of town. As such, all remaining footage of her is from other sources like the dashcam of the police car she tries to borrow.
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The Bay / int_3efb1d35	type	Social Media Before Reason
The Bay / int_3efb1d35	comment	Social Media Before Reason: While there are plenty of straight examples, this film also supplies two examples of an inversion (including one done by a news team, characters who normally keep recording everything come hell or high water or their own horrible demises in this kind of films) of people who were too horrified by the situation to wish to keep recording.
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The Bay / int_3f76f32	type	Bad Black Barf
The Bay / int_3f76f32	comment	Bad Black Barf: Many victims start vomiting as the apparent infection takes hold, and in late stages, several victims can be seen with tarry black puke around their mouths and down their fronts. Apparently, this is due to the parasites munching on their internal organs.
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The Bay / int_41eab669	type	Daylight Horror
The Bay / int_41eab669	comment	Daylight Horror: Bad things kick off on a bright and sunny July 4th.
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The Bay / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Bay / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: Almost everyone dies from the infection or other causes offscreen, except for a few characters.
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The Bay / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Bay / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: When the CDC advises him to abandon his patients and leave the hospital, Dr Abrams keeps his voice as quiet as possible, but it's clear from his tone of voice that he's nothing short of enraged at the suggestion and at how little help the CDC have been all evening.
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The Bay / int_44880a8c	type	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
The Bay / int_44880a8c	comment	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Donna explicitly says that she expects this to happen to her once she releases her report (the film we are seeing). The movie never tells us if this really ended up happening to her.
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The Bay / int_46ee4d3	type	Eye Take
The Bay / int_46ee4d3	comment	Eye Take: During their interview with an EPA representative, CDC doctors allow him to explain all the problems with the water in the Chesapeake Bay - which just happens to include "a small leak from a nuclear reactor in 2002", prompting two of the doctors to look up with wide-eyed expressions of disbelief.
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The Bay / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Bay / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Donna's cameraman Jim Hoyt, who's pretty snappy and rude the few times he talks, but sticks with Donna until the bitter end and continues to film even after they are told not to by the FBI. He also takes the time to reassure her she's doing a good job as a reporter.
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The Bay / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Bay / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: We never see the living victims who beg to be killed by Officer Jimson, but based on how they sound, that may be for the best.
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The Bay / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Bay / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "What's that on your neck?" Confirming that Michael is infected.
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The Bay / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Bay / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Starts with rashes of giant blisters and gets worse from there.
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The Bay / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
The Bay / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: The mutant isopods. They might be killing thousands of victims in painful, hideous ways, but their actions are guided by instinct, not malice.
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The Bay / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Bay / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Baby Andrew survives the day, despite - at one point - being seen right next to an infected victim with isopods visibly creeping out of her.
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The Bay / int_565d9b8	type	Mother of a Thousand Young
The Bay / int_565d9b8	comment	Mother of a Thousand Young / Explosive Breeder: What the bay's cocktail of hormones and steroids from industrial chicken farm pollution has turned the female isopods into.
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The Bay / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
The Bay / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: The isopods mutate because of exposure to hormones in the farm runoff polluting the bay. 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.
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The Bay / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
The Bay / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: The footage that makes up the movie was supposedly classified by the government.
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The Bay / int_5c3c800f	type	The Immune
The Bay / int_5c3c800f	comment	The Immune: Some of the townsfolk turn out to be immune to the infection for unknown reasons, even though they were either drinking or swimming in the same contaminated water as the victims. Donna turns out to be one of them, being filmed taking a drink from a public drinking fountain and later being splashed in the face with infected blood but suffering no ill effects.
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The Bay / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
The Bay / int_5ec15a79	comment	Vertebrate hormones, even biotechnologically altered ones probably wouldn't have much of an effect on crustaceans.
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The Bay / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
The Bay / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: Towards the end of the day, afflicted people all over Claridge begin screaming in agony, scaring the bejesus out of Donna in the process, and her narration takes note of how creepy it was to hear the ghostly howls echoing from seemingly all directions.
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The Bay / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Bay / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When the characters are doing a web search for information on the creatures, you can see a piece of artwork by John Wojcik, of Bogleech and Mortasheen fame, whose nature articles focusing on especially disturbing wildlife are largely responsible for the popularity the Cymothoa exigua has gained on the internet.
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The Bay / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Bay / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Dr. Abrams elects to remain at the hospital and continue to treat his patients even after it becomes clear the situation is hopeless, leading to his infection and death.
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The Bay / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Bay / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: When Donna and her cameraman discover a still-living victim whose tongue and lips have been eaten. One of the dead patients in Dr. Abrams's final video has had his entire lower face eaten away.
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The Bay / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Bay / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: While struggling to help Dr Abrams to unearth the source of the infection, the CDC manage to get a representative from the EPA on the line, and he confirms that there's a whole host of godawful things wrong with the Chesapeake Bay but assures them that Claridge's filtered water has met all regulatory standards. Cut to an extremely negative infrastructure report on Claridge, revealing that the local drinking water is rated D-.
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The Bay / int_69a54df1	type	Chest Burster
The Bay / int_69a54df1	comment	Chest Burster: The isopods like to chew their way out through the stomach. Or exit via the mouth after stopping to snack on the tongue. Or through the side of the neck.
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The Bay / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Bay / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Officer Jimson shoots himself in order to avoid the pain of being eaten to death by the isopods. Alex attempts to have Stephanie commit a Mercy Kill with a fire poker but she is unable to before one eats its way out of his neck.
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The Bay / int_70e8a55a	type	No FEMA Response
The Bay / int_70e8a55a	comment	No FEMA Response: A rash of flesh-eating isopods is eating the inhabitants of an entire town, an incurable, horrifying epidemic that had the chief doctor of the local hospital increasingly desperate and pretty much begging the CDC for help. The government's response? Not provide him with a direct answer when he contacts them, quarantine the town for three days (with the implication that they are waiting for everybody infected by the isopods to be totally killed off) and conceal all information of the attack (to the point that Donna, who edited the "found footage", explicitly says that a bunch of hackers helped her obtain it and that she totally expects to be Killed to Uphold the Masquerade once she releases it). To make things even worse, the implication is that the CDC would have been very glad to help with this situation, but Homeland Security decided to keep everything concealed.
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The Bay / int_7a32312a	type	Rain of Blood
The Bay / int_7a32312a	comment	Rain of Blood: Donna gets rained on by a corpse laying on the edge of a roof.
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The Bay / int_7c6709e2	type	Crisis Point Hospital
The Bay / int_7c6709e2	comment	Crisis Point Hospital: Claridge's hospital is quickly overwhelmed with the sheer number of infected individuals. Though it's a fully-equipped facility, the doctors don't know how to treat the epidemic short of amputating critically-damaged limbs, and there simply aren't enough staff members to deal with the influx of victims. Consequently, waiting rooms are all but overflowing with patients in agony. By the time the CDC manages to figure out the source of the problem, it's already too late.
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The Bay / int_7d06fdd6	type	Medical Horror
The Bay / int_7d06fdd6	comment	Medical Horror: Of the mysterious incurable plague kind.
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The Bay / int_83bd8159	type	Orifice Evacuation
The Bay / int_83bd8159	comment	Orifice Evacuation: How the isopods sometimes leave their unfortunate hosts.
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The Bay / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
The Bay / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation / Despair Event Horizon: When Officers Jimson and Paul investigate a house where neighbors have reported hearing screaming, Officer Jimson discovers the living and partially devoured residents who beg him to kill them. 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. This may also have to do with the fact that some of the isopods got into him earlier.
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The Bay / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Bay / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mayor John Stockman is a Corrupt Politician who dies in a car wreck.
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The Bay / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Bay / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Mayor John Stockman's death can be seen as a roundabout version of this. As part of the Chesapeake Environmental Council, he would have seen (or at least heard about) the videos the two oceanographers had sent in. The karmic part comes into play as the mayor ends up in a car crash and dies from the injuries he sustains because the medical personnel have either died or fled due to the isopod outbreak.
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The Bay / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Bay / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Several people competing in the crab-eating contest at the beginning graphically throw up and collapse due to the contamination.
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The Bay / int_97e48376	type	The Elites Jump Ship
The Bay / int_97e48376	comment	The Elites Jump Ship: The Mayor, already having distanced himself from the front lines of the disaster, makes off with the Sheriff's car once it becomes clear that the situation in Claridge has gone to hell, evidently planning on escaping the area at all costs. It results in him getting into a fatal collision.
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The Bay / int_991c7101	type	Hazardous Water
The Bay / int_991c7101	comment	Hazardous Water: All water within Claridge becomes extremely hazardous - both from pollution and from the mutated isopods.
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The Bay / int_99dd103c	type	Safe Zone Hope Spot
The Bay / int_99dd103c	comment	Safe Zone Hope Spot: Donna notes that several victims gravitated towards main street, hoping that any emergency services trying to provide a medevac would head there first. Unfortunately, with Claridge under quarantine, no help came. Consequently, main street is littered with the bodies of people who died waiting to be rescued.
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The Bay / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Bay / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Sheriff Roberts has to remind Mayor Stockman to buckle his seat belt while riding in the police car. The mayor later dies of injuries received after a car wreck.
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The Bay / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
The Bay / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Takes place on the Fourth of July.
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The Bay / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
The Bay / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: By the end of Dr. Abrams' videos, the hospital is completely deserted except for him, with the remaining medical staff having run for their lives and the patients having all died. For good measure, it's lit exclusively by red emergency lighting, making it even creepier.
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The Bay / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Bay / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: One of the oceanographers has his eye bitten out by an isopod.
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The Bay / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Bay / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Downplayed. Sheriff Lee Roberts is initially pretty reasonable and is just trying to do his best in a bad situation, but after he loses contact with his deputies he threatens to fire all of them for it if it turns out they're okay.
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The Bay / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Bay / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The lighthearted fun of the 4th of July fair quickly turns into a nightmare when the woman who just enjoyed a go in the dunking machine starts wandering around with painful lesions all over her body, screaming for help.
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The Bay / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Bay / int_a8559a9f	comment	The Real Life isopod of which these are allegedly mutations doesn't actually eat fishes' tongues, but latches onto and drains blood from them until the tongue atrophies over several weeks. Even allowing that pollutants could cause isopods to grow that fast, it certainly wouldn't cause the humans' metabolic rate to accelerate enough to speed up the tongue-shrinkage process to a matter of hours.
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The Bay / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
The Bay / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: By parasitic isopods. From the inside out.
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The Bay / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: This is what some of the footage is, particularly the videos left by Dr. Abrams, 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. Donna also says that the government may kill her once she releases the video, so this may be her Apocalyptic Log as well.
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The Bay / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Bay / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Officer Jimson goes insane and kills everyone he runs into to spare them the pain of infection.
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The Bay / int_b352279a	type	Attack of the Killer Whatever
The Bay / int_b352279a	comment	Attack of the Killer Whatever: Isopods, being fed mutated chicken excrement and chemicals.
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The Bay / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
The Bay / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Alex starts vomiting blood before an isopod bursts from his throat.
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The Bay / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
The Bay / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: Shortly after Alex is killed Stephanie and baby Andrew try to flee Claridge in an abandoned police car, unfortunately neglecting to check the back seat; the moment Stephanie takes a seat, a dying victim abruptly leaps out from behind her in a frenzied attempt to beg for help.
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The Bay / int_bba30aeb	type	Late to the Tragedy
The Bay / int_bba30aeb	comment	Late to the Tragedy: Alex and Stephanie arrive in Claridge after dark, by which time the worst of the chaos has already concluded and the place has been reduced to a Ghost Town. For good measure, it's not long before they notice the first of the bodies.
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The Bay / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Bay / int_c04b1231	comment	At one point in the film, a fisherman pulls up a fish with 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 rather less impressive. In addition, C. exigua feeds on blood, not flesh. Finally, while the two previous breaks from reality are probably justified by the fact that these are mutated isopods, there's the fact that real isopod larvae don't look like grubs. Isopods undergo hemimetabolism (incomplete metamorphosis), so an isopod larva looks like a tiny version of an adult.
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The Bay / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Bay / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: When the main CDC agent in charge of the investigation asks how the isopods could have managed to get through the water filtration system despite their size, one of his coworkers posits that their larva would be small enough to slip through. There's an audible silence as he registers that this is likely what occurred before nervously pivoting away from the subject.
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The Bay / int_d1522cf	type	Tongue Trauma
The Bay / int_d1522cf	comment	Tongue Trauma: The isopods are mutant Cymothoa exigua, also called the tongue-eating louse. Guess what they do to some victims?
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The Bay / int_d833090a	type	Right Hand Versus Left Hand
The Bay / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: The CDC is presented as eager to help but powerless because of lack of information, while Homeland Security is presented as a bunch of Obstructive Bureaucrats which concealed information of previous isopod attacks in order to "prevent panic" and is implied are the ones who ordered the town to be quarantined and left to die, as well as concealed all information of the isopod attack that makes the whole film (to the point that it may have also killed Donna off-screen, afterwards, once she released it for us to see).
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The Bay / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Bay / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: By the time Claridge is being completely overrun by the infection, Doctor Abrams' staff all abandon the hospital in an attempt to save themselves. Notably averted with Abrams himself, who refuses to evacuate even when advised to by the CDC, instead staying to document everything until he dies himself.
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The Bay / int_de02e808	type	Mistaken for Disease
The Bay / int_de02e808	comment	Mistaken for Disease: Dr Abrams initially believes that the plague may be some kind of infection, but after seeing roughly half the town turn up in the hospital waiting room and witnessing the symptoms advancing too quickly to be treated even with amputation, he begins accepting wilder possibilities. Eventually, the CDC discover the truth: it's actually a parasitic infestation; Cymothoa exigua have been mutated by exposure to chemical waste from a factory farm and are now capable of preying on humans. The "necrosis" is actually the parasites literally eating their victims alive from the inside..
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The Bay / int_df18f1dd	type	Parasitic Horror
The Bay / int_df18f1dd	comment	Parasitic Horror: It starts out as Found Footage documentary of the Fourth of July celebration at Claridge, Maryland, only for the town to succumb to a plague of a mutated species of Cymothoa exigua spawned from the polluted bay. They infect the people through the water supply and eat them alive and spawn until they die, where they escape their host and jump to a new one. By the end of the film, nearly everyone in the film had died after the US government quarantined it, the footage leaked by the reporter that survived.
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The Bay / int_df4edb04	type	Corrupt Bureaucrat
The Bay / int_df4edb04	comment	Corrupt Bureaucrat: Mayor John Stockman, who helped cause the crisis due to his authorizing the various industries polluting the bay, downplaying the pollution of the bay, ignoring the signs of the sickness and the oceanographers' reports about the parasites - resulting in the outbreak that ultimately dooms Claridge.
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The Bay / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Bay / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Officer Jimson does this to the infected inhabitants of a home he enters. He also kills Officer Paul and Sheriff Roberts to spare them the same fate.
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The Bay / int_f482730a	type	No Peripheral Vision
The Bay / int_f482730a	comment	No Peripheral Vision: Donna and her cameraman are investigating the abandoned waterfront when they spot a bloodstain by a building... and as it's quite dark out, they don't notice the corpse lying on the roof of the building until a fresh gout of blood lands right in Donna's face.
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