This week, we RSVP to the world’s least relaxing destination wedding as we dive into The Bay, the new survival thriller written and directed by Phil Volken and starring Francesca Eastwood. When two longtime friends take a shark-feeding excursion during a wedding trip to Thailand, their tour boat is crippled inside a remote tiger shark sanctuary leaving them trapped between sinking wreckage, increasingly desperate people, and several locals with far too many teeth. Did The Bay give us a thriller worth sinking our teeth into or did we just swim to shore? I mean, it’s literally right there!
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Release Details
Title: The Bay
Year: 2026
Director: Phil Volken
Writer: Phil Volken
Top-Billed Stars: Francesca Eastwood, Dani Oliveros, Alexander Wraith, Ta’imua
Running Time: 87 minutes
Country of Origin: United States
Official U.S. Release: July 17, 2026 — limited theatrical release and video on demand
Distributor: Brainstorm Media
Production Companies: WeBros Entertainment and Del Rey Films
Other Notable Projects
Phil Volken — Writer and Director
Extortion (2017)
Another vacation nightmare involving a family trapped in the Caribbean. It establishes Volken’s interest in tropical locations where isolation turns paradise into a pressure cooker.
Dead Sea (2024)
A maritime crime-horror thriller about women stranded aboard a boat. Viewed beside The Bay, it makes this film feel less like an isolated shark assignment and more like another variation on Volken’s recurring obsession with danger at sea.
Garbage (2012)
An earlier comedy about two sanitation workers attempting to recover a valuable movie award. It represents a substantially lighter and stranger side of Volken’s filmmaking than his later survival thrillers.
Francesca Eastwood — Emma
Old (2021)
M. Night Shyamalan’s beach-set thriller placed Eastwood in another idyllic coastal location governed by a deadly natural threat.
Juror #2 (2024)
Directed by her father, Clint Eastwood, the courtroom thriller cast her as the murder victim at the center of the case.
Queen of the Ring (2025)
Eastwood portrayed wrestling pioneer Mae Young, giving her a historical character role far removed from The Bay’s physically vulnerable survival lead.
Dani Oliveros — Lani
Skill House
A horror film built around social-media personalities competing inside a deadly content-creation environment. It connects Oliveros to another project about people behaving badly when fear, spectacle, and survival collide.
Outbreak
An independent action-horror project featuring Billy Burke, Taylor Handley, and Raoul Trujillo.
A Place in Hell
Oliveros appears alongside Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar-Jones in Chloe Domont’s follow-up to Fair Play, marking a potentially significant step into a higher-profile dramatic production.
Alexander Wraith — Mandal
Orange Is the New Black
Wraith appeared as Vasily Reznikov, connecting him to one of Netflix’s defining early original series.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
He played Agent Anderson in the Marvel television series.
Taken 3
A supporting role in the Liam Neeson action franchise that fits Wraith’s established screen presence as physically imposing authority figures and antagonists.
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