In his thirty years as a feature filmmaker, Barry Levinson has never directed a horror film. The closest he’s come was 1998’s Sphere, a Michael Crichton adaptation with some supernatural elements, and that critically reviled effort certainly didn’t indicate any particular adeptness for the form. So when the initial trailers popped up for The Bay, a “found footage” horror effort that appears much closer to the work of producer Orin Peli (Paranormal Activity), there was cause for skepticism; Mr. Levinson’s last few narrative theatrical features (What Just Happened, Man of the Year, Envy) haven’t exactly set the world on fire, and the move to a low-budget genre effort seemed to smack of desperation. The joke’s on me: The Bay is the best movie he’s made in years, a tense and thoroughly disturbing little thriller. … Read More