one of the worst films i've seen!

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2008)

Right, where do I begin?! I went and saw Prom Night the other day and left thinking, okay... not enough blood, but at least it brought me back to my teen-thriller watching days, quite nostalgic. However, having seen the trailer for The Happening and the posters, i was ready to watch something that would really scare me.
I could not have been more disappointed. Firstly, in one scene in the show-house you can see the boom sound mic!! and it's not even there for a split second - it's there dangling between the two characters for the majority of the shot. How amateurish! I, too, was so disappointed with the acting, studying acting myself, i was cringing for most of the way through. I've seen a lot better from the 2 leads! Methinks it was due to lack of emotion in the writing, it was very poorly written, again i didn't go 10 minutes without turning to my partner to cringe at a line - usually an attempted joke! Mark Wahlberg was just as bad as Hayden Christiansen in Awake during this film. In the last sequence when he's walking towards his wife, there's no emotion at all on his face, he just looks angry - and its obvious she's got good news as she's standing outside their house waiting for his return, which a massive smile on her face! He looked angry throughout the whole film actually... and hello! If my friends or even people i knew were killing themselves near me, i'd have a lot more to say/ scream/ do than what they were directed to do! absolute rubbish.
I feel like writing to the producers and asking for my money back! It was a bit like Skins (with the trailer is so much better than the actual thing).
At least we were giggling on the way home at how poorly executed everything was; it was all so one dimensional - the acting, the directing, and the writing. Even the editors should have cropped the boom mic out of that scene! Don't waste your money, at least wait until it comes down to 3 GBP in HMV (which shouldn't take that long with this film) and have a laugh with your mates.