The 'found footage' subgenre - incepted by The Blair Witch Project (1999) - shows little sign of running out of steam. The appeal of this approach for genre stories (in particular) resides in their faux-reality, their use of a lo-fi 'I was there-ness' to encourage and accelerate our suspension of disbelief. Certainly, the whole found footage conceit invigorated Cloverfield (2008) - which was otherwise a King Kong knock-off. With The Bay, Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson is getting in on the act - which appears to do for body-horror what Cloverfield did for city-trashing behemoths... Warning! This one is going to make you jump...
It looked pretty interesting - but then the trailer seemed to reveal just about every single surprise the film had. Weird decision.
ReplyDeleteI agrees with Tom, i hate trailers for films that are any longer than 1 minute, everything just gets ruined.
ReplyDeleteTrailer shouldn't be so descriptive, as its ruins the suspense of the film. Not an appreciable decision.
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