A terrible film from Shyamalan

Rating: 2/10 (23 January 2017)

M. Night Shyamalan takes on the fear of terrorism, environmentalism, and the apocalypse in his worst film. The Happening begins with people randomly killing themselves for seemingly no reason in also sorts of elaborate ways from stabbing themselves in the throat and throwing themselves off buildings to shooting themselves in the head and hanging themselves. The suicides grow progressively more outrageous reducing the horror of the mysterious affliction. It is revealed early on that the attack is airborne and centered in the Northeast.
Science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) decides to evacuate Philadelphia by train with his wife Alma (Zoey Deschanel) after being invited by math teacher Julian (John Leguizamo). They hear more disturbing new and witness more disturbing deaths as they lose contact with major population centers. The evacuation transpires without much fear being generated. In a reversal from the most nonviolent previous film, The Happening goes out of its way to display grotesque deaths.
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