The Happening
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? From TMDB
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60 of 186 · most liked firstand @mattfraction.bsky.social does it again! for YEARS, he has been buying me copies of le' film THE HAPPENING in any format he can find. Including the OG trailer. with physical media waning I thought this was, sadly, all behind us until today when he gifts me the original crew wrap gift for, yes...
unlabelledView post →Saw The Happening on a rainy night in a dollar theater with leaks in the roof and tarps and buckets on the chairs beneath them. Everyone seemed to realize early on that it was a very silly movie and it was just a hoot after that
unlabelledView post →Spoilers for the Happening but I remember the shot of the breeze early in the film followed by people Offing themselves and my buddy and I jokingly went "oh noo the trees are killing us!" And that is in fact what the whole damn thing was about.
unlabelledView post →I bet what you want to do on a tuesday afternoon is watch The Last Airbender movie along with the Media Club Plus crew and @austinwalker.bsky.social . The usual MCP ep (of The Happening, along with @notquitereal.bsky.social) will be out tonight or tomorrow afternoon! www.patreon.com/posts/mcp-st...
unlabelledView post →following up on the monster hunter movie, we watched The Happening and Ang Lee's Hulk. I'm getting tonal whiplash so bad I think my neck's going to break.
unlabelledView post →2. THE HAPPENING (2008) John Leguizamo acted his pussy off for that one scene and then the remainder of the movie felt like I had been trying to figure out where I was after being smashed in the head with a brick. Actually kind of decent premise but the execution was uhhhhhhhhhh. lol.
unlabelledView post →bad movie recommendation: The Happening probably Shyamalan's worst "twist" film, this made me laugh out loud several times and is truly one of the worst piece of shit films i have ever seen, but that doesn't mean it's not super entertaining. i have rewatched this more than i care to admit. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →On our latest episode, @joshgondelman.bsky.social joins us to pitch a surprisingly earnest and powerful contemporary remake of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. The final product will NOT involve Ted, the teddy bear from the movie Ted. Watch the ep: youtu.be/Him2_1n-JGI?...
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Mind Over Murder Pressure The Green Knight The Happening
unlabelledView post →The Happening is a movie about what it would be like if something happened
unlabelledView post →i've never wanted to be stoned for a movie more than The Happening
unlabelledView post →TRAP is Shyamalan’s most THE HAPPENING movie since THE HAPPENING. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
unlabelledView post →Before the Happening Jenny Nicholson had a funny review of a made-for-TV movie about JK Rowling’s life where she kept seeing little plastic witch hats and big bearded guys in the background before she started writing the books. It was all subliminal I guess.
unlabelledView post →I am a movie enjoyer but I have no education in the technicals or history of film, I am not studied, I would never speak on films with even the most semi of semi-professional confidence or make one, but 2008’s The Happening was so bad even on a technical level I felt I could do it better. THAT bad.
unlabelledView post →Did you know the movie The Happening was based on a real happening?
unlabelledView post →Looking for a film for a bit of background noise, something that wouldn't be too distracting, I settled on The Happening. Jesus christ, I forgot how terrible this movie is. The concept is sound, but the execution is awful. Just everything about it.
unlabelledView post →33.) THE HAPPENING (2008) - a masterclass in how to cut a movie that is, I assure you, absolute 100% dogshit into a compelling trailer
unlabelledView post →Trap is the funniest Hollywood film I've seen since, well, The Happening. You've done it again, Mr Shyamalan!
unlabelledView post →It's been a while since a movie was so bad that it made me angry and sorry for watching it. I would have rather re-watched The Happening than wasted time watching The Last House yesterday.
unlabelledView post →I recognize the intent to make this as an intentionally comedy movie now. It's still a pretty awful movie. My ★½ review of The Happening (2008) on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/e54TEF #TheHappening #Horrorsky #MNightShyamalan #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →THE HAPPENING is *not* a good movie, but it *is* a funny film. Naturally we had to have defender Lindsay Traves back to talk all about its terribleness.
unlabelledView post →Prepare for a colossal culling and try to stay ahead of the wind because we're discussing M. Night Shyamalan's much-maligned film #TheHappening (2008) in celebration of #EarthDay! Tagging in for the conversation is Pajiba senior critic Lindsay Traves.
unlabelledView post →How to cure a hangover: The Happening (2008). What a peculiar film 😀. #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️
unlabelledView post →If you want to have the best sleep of your life, watch that new Ice Cube movie on Amazon Prime I think it is quite possibly the worst film I've ever seen. EVER. And I'm including Barb Wire and The Happening as two films I've seen.
unlabelledView post →Maybe not the strongest reaction I've seen, but I often think about the guy a few rows ahead of us at a screening of The Happening. Dude was shaking his head through most of the movie and occasionally throwing his hands up in disgust.
unlabelledView post →The amount of pollen everywhere here is batshit insane right now. The breeze feels WONDERFUL but I can see it. I can see the wind. It's yellow. It's all pollen. The Happening was a real movie. M Night knew. The trees are trying to end me.
unlabelledView post →Watching The Happening again... Yup, I just LOVE a bad movie
unlabelledView post →Probably the Brandon Routh Superman. Just a baffling movie. The Happening and The Lady in the Water also felt like this but The Happening becomes a comedy if you let it.
unlabelledView post →Tonight for our movie monday, we hit a Marky Mark combo with The Happening! This was simultaneously better AND worse than I was expecting, actually! To my surprise, the premise is actually set up pretty well. They give enough background info to suspend disbelief and accept it.
unlabelledView post →I’m gonna have a Mark Wahlberg movie marathon. First movie is THE HAPPENING, that way I’ll fall asleep and won’t have to watch anymore Mark Wahlberg movies.
unlabelledView post →I’m nearly speechless here. This movie is basically The Happening but actually good. WTF.
unlabelledView post →'The Happening' was released on this day in 2008 and now M. Night is good again but this movie stays bad: flavorwire.com/598370/bad-m...
unlabelledView post →Non-binary film director Them Night Shyamalan. The Happening? Certainly not the dishes!
unlabelledView post →Post inspired by the movie my friend and I selected for our weekly horror movie night: The Happening. The script? Terrible. The acting? Horrendous. Entertaining? You bet your ass it is.
unlabelledView post →The Happening (2025 Movie Thread, #823), #Horror365Challenge (#672) #filmsky #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →#30dayfilmchallenge The worst film you’ve ever seen Day 19 - The Happening - More like the CRAPPENING. Amirite? Amirite? #thehappening
unlabelledView post →Watching that M Night Shyamalan movie The Happening where the trees are killing everyone. Came with an open mind, but damn, this one is worse than the beach that makes you old.
unlabelledView post →The Happening has one of the wildest ensembles of all time for such a bad movie. Three Tony award winners and two of the brothers from Succession.
unlabelledView post →BREAKING NEWS: @mnightshyamalan.bsky.social releases new Netflix horror film sequel to "The Happening"!! This time nature's wrath is NYC trees objecting to new green #bikenyc lanes and they shed their branches citywide to thwart use! #Urbanism
unlabelledView post →"The Happening is just like a Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie yo!" The Happening:
unlabelledView post →man if there was an award for worst dialogue in a movie ever it would have to be The Happening
unlabelledView post →like, i do not agree with ppl who think all of his films are forgotten masterpieces or whatever. The Happening is a bad film, The Visit is mid, im not rly interested in Split, etc. but acting like Trap is "bad on purpose" or even just bad is just a biased as fuck stance.
unlabelledView post →26 minutes in and The Happening is, so far, the dumbest M Night Shyamalan movie I've ever seen
unlabelledView post →// I made an enemy use trees to annoy the PC's of Mage game. It's a Verbanae so it felt on brand. But, now I'm just thinking of The Happening, where the trees attack people. It may be the literal worst movie I ever did see. Including the 5 minutes of the Jackass film I walked out of.
unlabelledView post →thinking about the couple sat behind me once in a restaurant on what I hope was their only date, where the fella spent the entire time talking about craft brewing and the movie The Happening, which he insisted was the scariest horror film because it could come true.
unlabelledView post →Notes: - None of us knew anything about Outland and it was awesome - such a great sci-fi movie. Highly recommended - Holy shit The Happening is awful good lord - After years of hearing about it, I was pleasantly surprised by Wild Things. What a wild movie - Virtuosity was ridiculous. 10/10
unlabelledView post →People who starred in The Happening, Transformers 4 & 5, and the Max Payne movie shouldn't throw stones.
unlabelledView post →THE HAPPENING Mark Wahlberg is a racist POS, so really about any movie with him in it I'm good with dumping.
unlabelledView post →The Happening is your favorite movie? Cool.
unlabelledView post →While I still remember talking to random people in the parking lot about how bad The Happening (@tabernak.bsky.social can back me up on this), I think the Emoji Movie was the worst, aimless and meaningless junk that seems a harbinger of the AI fruit people slop videos about revenge and getting rich.
unlabelledView post →I’m usually a Shyamalan defender, but The Happening was one of the only movies I almost walked out of because it was so bad. I ended up seeing another movie directly after to wash the taste out
unlabelledView post →This movie is the perfect level of campy The Happening is too far.
unlabelledView post →M. Night Shyamalan’s 2008 film The Happening has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
unlabelledView post →I was not prepared for how bad Shyamalan’s The Happening is. It is incredible that he got to direct another movie.
unlabelledView post →About to show @jazzpomegranate.bsky.social the most incredibly beautiful and heartbreakingly emotional film: The Happening.
unlabelledView post →if you see me talk shit about a property you like, just give it time because i like all kinds of stuff that most people hate like laters seasons of The Walking Dead! or the film The Happening! or even the first Andy season of The Office!
unlabelledView post →I would literally rather watch Marky Mark in The Happening than any Nolan film. And that's a film about killer grass.
unlabelledView post →Jumping in uninvited, but I taught a freshman seminar a few years ago called “The Environment Strikes Back” and taught Godzilla, The Happening (which lol), Annihilation (the book works better than the film, though), and The Wandering Earth. Those all fit the bill, I think.
unlabelledView post →Are you asking what is happening on the Time Shifters podcast? Well THE HAPPENING, is happening! Feel free to leave your thoughts on this M. Night Shyamalan film from 2008. #Podcast #MovieReview #TheHappening www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I9Z...
unlabelledView post →"Calculus. I see in calculus" [The Happening] Anyone else out there SEE in movies? Day to day life happens and I can SEE it from a movie I've seen. Kinda like Cassandra from 'The Librarians' when she does her Math Girl visuals. lol
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