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The Happening on DVD (2008)

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Average rating: 48%
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Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Studio: 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 86 mins
Certificate: 15
Collections: 100 Most Wanted, UK top 50 weekly chart
User collections: Movies in 2008, Films seen at Cinema in 2008, Worst Films I've Ever Seen, Give it a go!
Genres: Audio Descriptive, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Languages: English, English Audio Description
Released: 03/11/2008
Also Available on:  Also Available on: BLU-RAY

Brief synopsis of The Happening

M. Night Shyamalan directs this thriller about a father (Mark Walhberg) who tries to escape with his family after an apocalyptic event. THE HAPPENING costars Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo.

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Rated - 5 starsscariest trailer ever

mattyladd from sutton [Highly rated reviewer] , 14/06/2008

well i have not seen this film yet but click on the trailer.possibly more frightening than the exorcist.Some of the scariest scenes ever seen........ not for the faint hearted..

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Rated - 0 starswarning!!!

A customer from Letchworth Garden City , 13/06/2008

DO NOT see this movie if you think it's going to be good like "Signs" or "The sixth sense". I wasted 90 minutes of my life watching this film, it was rubbish, the acting by everyone was rubbish, the plot was rubbish, the script was rubbish!! 90 minutes of rubbish!!

I'm so glad I didn't pay to watch this (friend at cinema!) if I had, I would have asked for my money back! I was actually shocked by how bad this film was when I left the cinema. I wouldn't even watch it on dvd or the tv. It wasn't even a good B movie, god knows who actually financed it.

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Rated - 5 starsThe Happening

A customer from Basingstoke , 06/06/2008

From M. Night Shymalan, director of 'Signs', 'The Sixth Sense', 'Lady in the Water' and 'Unbreakable' comes 'The Happening'. Humanity is under threat in this chilling story which focuses on a middle school science teacher (Mark Wahlberg), his estranged wife (Zooey Deschanel), best friend (John Leguizamo) and his daughter as they fight to stay alive while a powerful neurotoxin creates global chaos.

What exactly is going on here? People all along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States are just dropping down dead. Is this some kind of new terrorist attack perhaps? Or is it something else? Something insidious and embedded in nature itself? Something has taken control of the world‘s animals and plants and that something also has plans for humanity. Cut off from the rest of humanity, the small band of survivors must rally together and determine the source of this strange pandemic.

Watch it.

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Rated - 5 starshhmmm

A customer from Heywood , 08/06/2008

I think someone made a boo-boo with attached trailer...lol

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Rated - 1 starsWHAT?

Foggy441980 from Connahs Quay [Highly rated reviewer] , 26/06/2008

This once great director is clearly losing the plot! I left the cinema last week totally confused as to how poor the film was! I loved the Sixth Sense and Signs but his films continue to get worse.

This was a totally pathetic effort!

Avoid at all costs!

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Rated - 2 starsDisappointing in every sense

A customer from Wolverhampton , 16/06/2008

The showing i saw at the cinema had people walking out muttering how 'utterly sh*t' this film was...it is nowhere in the same league of the other films by this director. There is no twist at the end (in fact the supposed twist happens within the first 1/4 of the film) and the characters were just pointless...i couldn't care what happened to any of them. The best bit of the whole film was the first 15mins, then it was a downward slope from there. Save your money and wait for the DVD release...it won't feel like you've wasted so much money then!

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