Bayhem

English

Etymology

Blend of Bay +‎ mayhem, after American director Michael Bay.

Noun

Bayhem (uncountable)

1. (film, fandom slang, often derogatory) Frenetic and fast-paced action characteristic of the films of Michael Bay.
   • 2009, review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Metro (Edmonton, AB), 20 October 2009, page 17:

     Michael Bay’s second Transformers saga delivers full-bore “Bayhem” like a brick to the forehead, with some tender love on the side, making this either the biggest blockbuster of summer ’09 or history’s loudest romance.

   • 2019, Kevin L. Ferguson, Pop Goes the Decade: The Nineties‎^[1], page 46:

     Typical of Michael Bay's manic “Bayhem” style (discussed earlier), Armageddon focuses more on the masculine heroics of the crew sent to blow up the asteroid.

   • 2022, Keith Phipps, Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, unnumbered page:

     Con Air is Bayhem without the vision—something that was already becoming the prevailing Hollywood action film aesthetic.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bayhem.