(Watch the trailer below.)īasing their story on the toxic pollutants and flesh-eating bacteria increasingly prevalent in the Chesapeake Bay, Levinson and Wallach cook up a mutant breed of the isopod that enters a fish through its gills and devours its tongue, replacing that organ with its own body.
His examinations point to twin parasites eating their bodies externally and internally. Abrams ( Stephen Kunken) is mobbed by patients presenting bizarre symptoms resistant to treatment. When people start turning up with bleeding rashes, boils, bubbling lesions and parts of their tongues missing, The Bay takes shape like a viral epidemic thriller in the vein of Contagion. Then there was that nuclear reactor leak in 2002 that caused gradual ground seepage. There’s also the matter of 45 million pounds of chicken excrement being dumped in the water each year from the massive local poultry industry, all of it loaded with chemical steroids. We quickly learn that the bodies of two divers were fished out of the bay, and while their deaths were blamed on rogue bull sharks, the bites didn’t fit that profile.
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VIDEO: Inside THR’s Video Diary Featuring the Toronto Film Festival’s Leading TalentĬutting back and forth between her awkward TV coverage and shaken present-day interview, Donna chats on-camera with the mayor ( Frank Deal), oblivious to his culpability in ignoring danger signs and to the fact that he would be dead several hours later.
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Levinson and Wallach nod wryly to every watery terror movie since Jaws and the original Piranha in this setup, as Donna takes in the crab-eating contest and interviews the beauty queen, who gushes, “I think it’s every girl’s dream to be Miss Crustacean!” The conceit is that a wealth of digital evidence was confiscated in the wake of the mass tragedy and has been accessed three years later via a Govleaks website.Īn inexperienced student reporter interning at the time for a local news channel, Donna was assigned to do fluff coverage of the Fourth of July festivities.
The extent of the calamity is conveyed upfront, as Donna Thompson ( Kether Donohue) addresses the camera with grave seriousness to blow the lid off secrets carefully concealed from the media. (The actual shooting location was Georgetown, S.C.) Over the course of 24 hours, events spiral into a full-blown catastrophe that claims hundreds of lives. On top of that are such sound sources as recorded phone conversations, 911 calls, scientific and medical logs and Coast Guard transmissions.Įditor Aaron Yanes makes nimble use of the disparate visual and audio textures to thread together an urgently paced recap of Independence Day 2009 in the seaside town of Claridge, Md., on Chesapeake Bay. These include news cameras, police vehicle cams, surveillance video, smart phones, Androids, Skype and underwater goggle cameras. QUIZ: Hey Hollywood, Test Your Toronto IQīut Levinson and screenwriter Michael Wallach mostly manage to circumvent the problem by gathering multiple media sources.
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