10 More Found Footage Fates Worse Than Death

4. Forever Looking Over Your Shoulder - The Bay

The Bay
Lionsgate

From director Barry Levinson, The Bay is a found footage movie that's framed as confidential US government reports being leaked out to the world.

As is revealed at the end of the movie, the small seaside town of Claridge was involved in a cover up over a swarm of isopods in the local water supply. With plentiful dead bodies amassed - usually after a person has either gone insane first and/or had their body eaten from the inside out - and blamed on swimming accidents, shark attacks, poisonous chicken faeces and even extreme bouts of food poisoning, the truth of the matter is the aforementioned isopods had been exposed to radioactive chemicals.

Realising they done f**ked up good by not acknowledging these issues previously, the government finally does intervene and wipes out these isopods with chlorine. Publicly stating that all of this was caused by strangely high water temperatures, all survivors are paid off to keep silent.

So, when Kether Donohue's reporter Donna explains at the end of the movie how she is the one leaking all of this information out into the world, her fate is that she has to live a life of forever looking over her shoulder after putting herself in the government's crosshairs.

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