Where have you gone M. Night Shamalan?

Rating: 7/10 (14 June 2008)

Have you ever watched a dog dance on its hind legs? And exactly what came of it? It seems that writer/director M. Night Shamalan had started a chain of movies that left us equally baffled. With THE HAPPENING, he is creeping back with some recognizable fright and chills. This paranoia filled thriller has Philidelphia high school teacher Elliot Moore(Mark Wahlberg)and his doe-eyed wife Alma(Zooey Deschanel)trying to outrun what seems an unstoppable phenomenon sweeping across the land. Mind boggling deaths erupt in major cities and what is causing this total breakdown of humanity? Elliot's wife and teaching friend Juilian(John Leguizamo)and his small daughter head through Pennsylvania farmland in hopes of finding a safe place to hide from this terrible plight that seems to travel with the wind. Is this an invisible killer that you just can't outrun? Well photographed and some decent F/X as expected. Also in the cast: Ashlyn Sanchez, Spenser Breslin, Alan Ruck and Jeremy Strong.