The Happening
We've sensed it. We've seen the signs. Now...it's happening.
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Produced by 20th Century Fox, UTV Motion Pictures
A paranoid ecological thriller that uses an unexplained mass-suicide crisis to explore humanity's vulnerability to nature and the fragility of marriage under existential pressure.
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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