Should you watch The Happening?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
The Happening
Film · 2008
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?
The sides of The Happening
- People suddenly taking their own lives
- A couple fleeing into the countryside
- The wind in the trees as the threat
The Happening is good for you if…
- you like an unexplained event with no monster to see.
- you like being scared by a breeze moving through the grass.
- you like the idea of nature turning against people.
The Happening is bad for you if…
- you can't watch suicides shown on screen.
- you need a disaster that the science can explain.
About: nature · fear · marriage
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