The Bay

...en bisarr kombination av "Contagion", "Cloverfield" och "Alien".

...perhaps it takes an old pro like Levinson to show how an increasingly played-out genre can be improved.

...a joltingly nightmarish vision of social meltdown.

Acute observation of human behaviour is accompanied by sharp writing and an affecting performance from newcomer Kether Donohue as a novice reporter out to penetrate the cover-up.

Although there are some scary moments here, and a lot of gruesome ones, this isn't a horror film so much as a faux eco-documentary.