The Happening
The Happening
R | 13 June 2008 (USA)
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When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?

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jonathan-747-46162

This takes the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" concept to a whole new level. DOWN to a whole new level, that is. Who said the age of turkeys was over? I wish I could give this rubbish a negative amount of stars.

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cuervo-kate

If horrific acting and a very predictable plot (and lines) is your thing then this is the movie for you. If I could give it a negative star rating I would.

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ncrossy1980

I feel obligated to warn every human on the planet to not waste an evening of their valuable time on this. I'm intentionally keeping this review short because I feel I've already lost enough of my life to this horrific train wreck of a video... I also refuse to refer to it as a movie. It is, by a long stretch, the single worst attempt at a movie I've seen on my 36 years on this planet. I made it all the way to the end out of pure fascination that this attempt at a movie was actually released to the public, and it left me wondering if there'll ever come a point where the public can sue directors for wasting significant periods of people's lives after deceptively coercing people into sitting through this filth with no warning of how dreadful it is. It's not even an opinion either, this attempt at a movie is factually awful in every respect. Please, I beg of you, only watch this if you wish to take on a new low in your life, a bottom of the barrel benchmark in which frankly nothing else that you watch from this point onwards could possibly be worse. It's all up from here. This film should be deleted from all publicly available services with immediate effect, life is too short to waste some of it being subjected to this utter toilet of a film.

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harryhaller-59428

First, a spoiler alert--I can't illustrate how truly awful this movie is without specific examples that include descriptions of the scenes and the dialog. Maybe just saying it's awful is a spoiler (this is my first IMDb review)...so I'll add that I can't say everyone will dislike it as much as I did.The best part of this film is the sped-up clouds behind the opening credits, which Night copied from what, like a billion cliché videos and films? It's all down hill from there. Just about one minute into the first scene, the nonsensical action, bad script and stilted acting burst out like water from a fire-hose. No more than a minute later, it's clear that this scene makes no sense, and the classic B-movie characteristics start to emerge like cockroaches in a bad horror film--the oddly loud overdubbed breath of surprise, everyone except the protagonist (who, we find out a scene or two later, is not the protagonist) being frozen as if time has stopped, the person right next to her can't hear what she's saying (hasn't everyone seen Carnival of Souls?), the "suspense" when the girl grabs a 9-inch hair pin from her coif and (much too slowly, even though it's only about 3 seconds) does the obvious with it...Scene 2 opens with a construction worker telling a joke that makes no sense whatsoever. After the nonsensical joke, what is supposed to be a person but clearly is some kind of mannequin plops into a pile of debris. It happens so fast that no one possibly could tell who it was (you can't even glean a flash of what clothes the supposed person was wearing), but the character I would call Construction Worker #1 exclaims, "Christ, McKenzie fell." And so it goes...from minute to minute, second to second, it continues to get worse. Bad dialog, bad acting, bad directing. However, I must add that even the best actor can't act his or her way out of a script this terrible.Despite what I wrote in the first paragraph, I'm going to recommend that no one waste even one minute on this film.

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