The Happening R

We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs. Now... It's Happening.
The Happening
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 15, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: 20Th Century Studios

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Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 370,490
One of the most interesting movies of the year, despite being one of the worst. It offers a study in what happens to the mind of a talented moviemaker when he is caught between commercial hysteria and his own engulfing ego. Full Review
London Review of Books
Aug 20, 2018
Rating: C -- The Happening is his first hilariously awful film. Full Review
ChrisStuckmann.com
Apr 17, 2015
Rating: 2/5 -- Ultimately it doesn't work -- scenes intended to be played straight become unintentionally funny due to Wahlberg's star turn being so gormless. Full Review
The List
Nov 3, 2018
Rating: 1.5/4 -- It's distant, aloof and painfully self-aggrandizing, clearly overconfident in its ability to scare the audience. Full Review
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Jun 6, 2019
[With] moments of shivery and twitchy suspense and a solid lead performance from Mark Wahlberg.
New York Times
Jun 13, 2008
Rating: 1/5 -- Wahlberg is atrocious, as wooden as the trees terrorising him. Full Review
TheShiznit.co.uk
Oct 14, 2012
[A]n astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined. Full Review
The New Republic
Sep 23, 2008

Product Description:

In THE HAPPENING, M. Night Shyamalan serves up over-the-top, apocalyptic strangeness. The film opens onto New York City's Central Park with a crowd of people enjoying an idyllic summer day. The carefree scene soon takes a terrifying turn, when out of nowhere, hordes of people begin to commit suicide en masse. People scramble to make sense of the pandemonium, and many believe it is a terrorist attack. It appears that some sort of deadly toxin is being released into the air. Cut to Elliot (Mark Wahlberg) a science teacher in Philadelphia. When he learns of the attack on New York, he meets up with his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), his friend Julian (John Leguizamo), and Julians's daughter, Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez). They make plans to get out of the city via train, but the train is evacuated in the middle of a small Pennsylvania town. When they learn that the mysterious toxin is spreading its way across the Northeast, they break up into groups, with Elliot, Alma, and Jess running through open farmland in search of safety. They are unsure of where to hide, or what exactly they are hiding from, until Elliot slowly forms a theory about the threat. He fights to keep Alma and Jess free from harm, and the film builds to a bizarre, unsettling climax, with Shyamalan's usual surprise ending.

Shyamalan's premise of escaping an unknown, unexplainable attack is a timely one, and is quite chilling in concept. However, while he at times appears to be groping for the frenzied scariness of THE BIRDS, THE HAPPENING's outlandish death scenes and implausible plot line often veer closer to B-movie classics. The film doesn't match the clever creepiness of THE SIXTH SENSE, but for fans of campy horror à la THE EVIL DEAD, it is truly something to behold.

Description by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

From M. Night Shyamalan, the writer-director of The Sixth Sense and Signs, comes a gripping thriller about a family on the run from a mysterious and deadly phenomenon. Academy Award® Nominee Mark Wahlberg (2006 Best Supporting Actor - The Departed) stars as Elliot Moore, an ordinary man trying to save his family from a terrifying, invisible killer. As Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there, it soon becomes clear that no one - and nowhere - is safe.

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  • UPC: 024543532897
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