The Happening

The Happening

2008 "We've sensed it. We've seen the signs. Now...it's happening."
The Happening
The Happening

The Happening

5 | 1h30m | R | en | Thriller

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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Released: June. 13,2008 | Released Producted By: 20th Century Fox , Spyglass Entertainment Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.thehappeningmovie.com
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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?

Genre

Thriller , Science Fiction

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Cast

Mark Wahlberg , Zooey Deschanel , John Leguizamo , Ashlyn Sanchez , Betty Buckley , Spencer Breslin

Director

Claire Kirk

Producted By

20th Century Fox

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Claire Kirk
Claire Kirk

Art Department Coordinator

Anthony Dunne
Anthony Dunne

Art Direction

Robert Guerra
Robert Guerra

Assistant Art Director

Barbra Matis
Barbra Matis

Assistant Art Director

David Schanker
David Schanker

Assistant Property Master

Paul Williams
Paul Williams

Construction Coordinator

Glenn Hiramatsu
Glenn Hiramatsu

Graphic Designer

Jeannine Oppewall
Jeannine Oppewall

Production Design

James Mazzola
James Mazzola

Property Master

Jay Hart
Jay Hart

Set Decoration

Michael McCole
Michael McCole

Set Decoration

Steve Sysko
Steve Sysko

Set Dresser

Jolie Scherberger
Jolie Scherberger

Set Dresser

Jonathan Hagen
Jonathan Hagen

Camera Production Assistant

Tak Fujimoto
Tak Fujimoto

Director of Photography

Billy Miller
Billy Miller

Key Grip

Markus Mentzer
Markus Mentzer

Second Assistant "A" Camera

Angela Bellisio
Angela Bellisio

Second Assistant Camera

Zade Rosenthal
Zade Rosenthal

Still Photographer

The Happening Audience Reviews

Editorial Review
Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
Ensofter Overrated and overhyped
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
mcguinnessjames The beginning act is honestly fairly good and there are multiple performances which didn't make me question WTF I was watching. It had a decent buildup yet failed to execute in every way. Every suicide we see is fake looking and honestly embarrassing. Yet the concept is intriguing yet is bogged down by clichés of all manners with a ridiculous plot point about the plants and communication it just bores and loses you. Yet it's entertaining and if you're bored give it a go with some parts being downright hilarious. Such as the zookeeper being torn apart and the building site.
tbecarey A complete waste of time, sadly. One of the most disjointed and incoherent screenplays ever written.
thyagorm Horrible. Sincerely, a film completely without link, without a palpable and continuous history. It's just an extremely generic eschatological movie with the same US story being attacked by something hyper-evil, and the heartthrob hero being completely immune and smarter than everyone else.Worst movie I ever watched.
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.