The film follows folks in the northeastern Chesapeake Bay community as a disease spreads from water to land. From THR:
The Bay unfolds in the found-footage style as it chronicles a horrifying biological disaster that arises from the Chesapeake Bay -- an isopod parasite that carries an untreatable disease. As it jumps from fish to the humans in a small town, the victims capture the terror on home videos and the web.
What is an isopod, you ask? A type of crustacean distantly related to both shrimp (yum!) and roly-polies (er, not yum), some of which live a parasitic existence attached to other creatures. Frightening stuff, right?
Well, if isopod terror doesn't make your skin crawl, trust in the producing team helping Levinson out on The Bay, which includes Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Insidious), Greg and Colin Strause (Skyline), and, THR reports, Paranormal Activity creator Oren Peli. Now who's scared?
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