Pictures from THE BAY Premiere!

 MM Blogger Sachin Hingoo usually handles posting the premiere pictures, but frankly no one's seen him since the premiere of Barry Levinson's first horror movie, The Bay. Some say Sachin was overcome by horror while watching the film. Others say that, enraged by the sight of unruly isopods, he struck out to Charm City to stop the isopods before they start. I've even heard gossip that Sachin was 6 or 7 giant isopods wearing a trench coat and fedora all along. But that's crazy talk.

Regardless, the red carpet premiere pictures must be posted. And so, in Sachin's name, enjoy!

Director Barry Levinson on the red carpet

for the world premiere of The Bay!

The lovely Kether Donahue will save us all from isopods

using only her fancy spike heels.

Actor Frank Deal doffs his cap, demonstrating true gentlemanliness

in the face of unspeakable wrongness.

(Parasitic isopods--not MM Photographer Ian)

Frank Deal, Kether Donahue and Barry Levinson on the red carpet.

Parasitic isopods, whatcha gonna do?

Horrific parasites could be sitting in the back

of your throat--right now!

Barry Levinson on stage at The Ryerson theatre.

MM Programmer Colin Geddes looks on as Mr. Levinson explains 

there's no point in panicking, the isopods' victory is inevitable.

Barry Levinson Talks THE BAY. World Premiere Intro/Q&A Video.

Last night academy award winning director Barry Levinson (Good Morning Vietnam; Rain Man) took to the Midnight Madness stage to premiere the first horror film in his career.

THE BAY is an extremely well constructed found footage eco-horror of a tragedy that befalls a small American town. Levinson shows that he can adapt to the changing movie-making technology -- the film employed over twenty different digital cameras. He and his team took all of this footage and crafted a compelling and down right horrific story made even more scary when you find out that over 85% of the science featured in THE BAY is true.

The post-screening Q&A was more so a masterclass with a brilliant director. Here we present Robert A. Mitchell's video.



THE BAY
Thurs., Sept. 13th, 2:45 PM CINEPLEX YONGE & DUNDAS 6

Aquatic Horror: A Brief, Particular History

Barry Levinson's The Bay and its army of invisible parasites is just the latest entrant in cinema's long, storied history of aquatic horror flicks. It's bad enough that fish do all kinds of debauched, disgusting things in the water to begin with, but then filmmakers have to go along and throw all other types of vicious nasties in there, too.

The tagline to Jaws was "Don't go in the water," and director Steven Spielberg and company meant it. But sometimes we find far scarier things under the sea then you're normal, everyday man-eating shark--like, for instance, genetically enhanced, super-intelligent sharks. That's case in Deep Blue Sea, a movie most best known for its out-of-nowhere Samuel L. Jackson death scene. But mutant sharks aren't this film's only horrors--you've also got a pretty silly, truly confounding (I've spent way too much of my life trying to figure out what "My hat is like a shark's fin" means) LL Cool J theme song to deal with, too.

The ocean is a truly vast, unknown world yet to be fully explored. One day, what kinds of things might we discover below the surface? If War-Gods of the Deep is to be believed (and I trust fully that it is), Vincent Price in a frilly neckerchief--complete with an "army of half-men, half-monster gill-men"-- isn't out of the question.

Really, if aquatic horror teaches us anything, it's that women are never safe in the water. Or really anywhere near a beach. Just look at Roger Corman's Humanoids from the Deep, as a race of intelligent sea-beasts invade our world for the sole--and quite rude, if you ask me--purpose of mating with human women as a means of advancing their species.

Truly, no one, and no beach is safe--not even Party Beach! Need proof? Check out The Horror of Party Beach, wher "an invasion of ghoulish atomic beasts who live off human blood" terrorizes fun-loving teens and cycle gangs alike.

And when Mother Nature isn't running amok, humanity's here to cause their own problems, like inventing "the most devistating device the mind of man has ever created," and then filling it with super-men with super weapons in Aragon.

THE BAY

Wed., Sept. 12th, 11:59 PM RYERSON

Thurs., Sept. 13th, 2:45 PM CINEPLEX YONGE & DUNDAS 6

They Shot A Movie Once In my Hometown. Video of Barry Levinson Directing THE BAY

I was born in a small town, so I have personally seen when something disrupts the day to day ebbs and flows of life. One can only imagine how excited the town folk of Georgetown, South Carolina felt when director Barry Levinson (Good Morning Vietnam, Sleepers) arrived in town to shoot a large scale feature film! Here is a YouTube video some folks shot of Mr. Levinson directing on the set of THE BAY.


There have been quiet murmurs of Barry Levinson's next film. We have seen a couple of stills of the horrors of a small seaside town. The excitement and anticipation is definitely building for the world premiere of THE BAY at Midnight Madness!

THE BAY Screening Times:

Wednesday September 12 11:59 PM RYERSON
Thursday September 13 2:45 PM CINEPLEX Yonge & Dundas 6