The Happening
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It seems fairly ironic that M. Night Shymalan’s latest scare fest is entitled “The Happening“…as nothing really seems to happen at all during the movie-except people committing mass suicide. A brief synapses of the movie might look something like this: A bit of frightened sounding dialog then cut to someone blowing their brains out…and this scene repeating itself over and over again.
Sure, the movie is good for a few gasps…a jump or two out of your seat…perhaps even a scream from the especially squimish…but that’s all the movie is. The trailers-which have been tantalizing us for months now could definitely be classified as false advertisement.
Shymalan’s movies have definitely lost their charm, where “The Sixth Sense” could be classified as a classic “horror” flick, we’ll be lucky if we can pick up the rest of his fare in the discount bin at Walmart. Hopefully he will rethink his methods long and hard before the next nightmare he attempts to produce.
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I had special interest in his movies as he is an Indian maker..after his movie signs and the next one after that..I totally lost interest
Rambler
July 1, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I noticed that his movies have gone done hill.
Tammy
July 2, 2008 at 5:24 am