Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2014

I’m as tired as you of the old found-footage horror subgenre. But this little barnburner has the welcome difference of being made by veteran director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Wag the Dog) and presented as a government-suppressed eco-doc cobbled together from handy-cam, security-cam and Skype footage. In a time-honored Jaws scenario, a pollution-spawned, water-borne parasite infests a bucolic Maryland resort. The nasty thingies burrow inside their victims, grow to fist size and eat their way out. Kewl. Scary because it stays within the realm of possibility. Think Contagion. It’ll get under your skin.

NOTE: Shown only at Shinjuku Cinema Qualite. (84 min)