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The Evolution of Horror

NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 32: The Bay (2012) & Evolution (2015)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This week things get icky and squishy as Kevin Lyons joins Mike to discuss two eco-body-horrors, THE BAY and EVOLUTION. 

Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

Music by Jack Whitney

Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham

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0:00.0

9-1-1-1, what are you reporting?

0:25.7

Sorry, did you say something back?

0:28.0

Yes, there's a really bad.

0:29.8

Where is she bleeding from?

0:37.0

At their best, nature bites back horror movies show us the might, wonder and beauty of nature,

0:44.7

while also warning us of its dangers. In 2012, Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson wanted to make

0:52.0

an eco-documentary about the record levels of pollution

0:55.8

in Chesapeake Bay.

0:57.8

In the end, he turned this idea into a found footage creature feature, but with many of

1:03.8

the horrors that occur, actually semi-based on fact.

1:08.0

We're in the middle of some kind of viral outbreak. It's eating their organs.

1:11.6

Intestines, it's liver.

1:13.6

It goes for kidneys.

1:14.6

In 2015, French director Lucille Hadze Halilovic made a movie about the almost fantastical

1:21.6

power of nature, the way natural evolution has allowed certain species to survive and thrive against all odds.

1:31.3

But she turned this idea into a Cronenbergian sci-fi body horror.

1:36.3

Both films in very different ways use eco-horror to show just how small and powerless human beings really are on this planet.

1:51.0

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror and we discuss 2012's The Bay and 2015's Evolution.

2:07.9

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munter and as ever I am your host.

2:13.1

In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre,

2:18.6

one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of nature

2:24.2

biting back in horror, and this is part 32. This week, we're looking at two particularly

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