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The Happening (DVD, 2009, Checkpoint; Sensormatic; Widescreen) 
The Happening (DVD, 2009, Checkpoint; Sensormatic; Widescreen)

 
The Happening (DVD, 2009, Checkpoint; Sensormatic; Widescreen)

Leading Role: John Leguizamo, Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Sep 2009
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Checkpoint; Sensormatic; Widescreen
UPC: 024543532897
Product ID: EPID70130876
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...
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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.

M. Night Shyamalan directs this thriller about a father (Mark Walhberg) who tries to escape with his family after an apocalyptic event. THE HAPPENING costars Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo.

Credits
Producer:M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mercer
Cast:Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, John Leguizamo, Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel

Details
Edition:Checkpoint; Sensormatic; Widescreen

Editorial Reviews
"[With] moments of shivery and twitchy suspense and a solid lead performance from Mark Wahlberg."
New York Times - Manohla Dargis (06/13/2008)

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      The Happening is Mostly Not Happening For Me!
    Review created: 04/29/09(updated 05/01/09)
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    cannonclubonline ( 4172)
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    6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

    A new movie such as this that has much potential in advertising its box office dates on television might have more problems in bringing things into proportion in today's crazy world turned up-side down. Selling a thriller such as this in today's market to a mass audience is now harder than ever since movie-goers are much more knowledgeable and fickle than ever before.

    It seems quite strange to think that an airborne virus or some other pathogen could actually turn you into some kind of violent, suicidal zombie. M. Night Shyamalan's attempt to make his first Rated R film with this movie, happens to do quite well in certain places. Mark Wahlberg remained quite calm and resolved at times during the crisis moments of this film. When people began falling off of building, it didn't sink in to my head that these people were actually doing this voluntarily committing suicide. I was thinking that they were just paralyzed and were unable to function.

    The movie gets quite absurd and silly at times in certain scenes. This tends to lend itself to lack of believability and credibility. The ending, which was very disappointing could have encompassed many other avenues and explored other various scenarios.

    The train scene was extra cool, but people would have acted much more crazy if they found out that everyone was cut off from the civilized world.

    I give this movie a rating of 3/5.

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      THE INVISABLE KILLER
    Review created: 12/20/08(updated 12/20/08)
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    fashionpassionfever007 ( 1362)
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    5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

    Features Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, Ashyln Sanchez & John Leguizamo.
    Running time: 90 Minutes.
    DVD has special features.

    The concept behind “The Happening” is absolutely terrifying.

    The story begins one morning in New York’s Central Park. People walking through the park become disoriented, lost in thought, repeating things they have just said & taking steps backwards. Then, they start killing themselves by any means available to them. Authorities are at a loss to explain the events, but terrorism is not ruled out. When a similar attack hits Philadelphia, high school science teacher Eliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his semi-estranged wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) – along with Eliot’s friend Julian (John Leguizamo) and his daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) – board a train for western Pennsylvania. The train stops abruptly in a small town because the conductors have lost contact with “everyone,” leading them to think their final destination has also come under attack. Elliot meets a man who owns a nursery, who suspects that the attacks are not terrorists but nature itself turning on man. Stuck in rural Pennsylvania, Elliot puts his science smarts to the test to stay one step ahead of nature, which is all around him.
    Whats happening is anyone anywhere is not safe.

    This movie was good, keeps you entertained and may put some thoughts into your head even after the movie has ended,would recommend to rent and to buy to anyone who is a big fan of M. Night Shyamalan.Hope this helps you decide.Please click YES at the bottom.Thanks for taking the time to read this! :)


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