Un professore di scienze, sua moglie e una ragazzina cercano di sopravvivere a un'epidemia che porta coloro che vengono contagiati a togliersi la vita.Un professore di scienze, sua moglie e una ragazzina cercano di sopravvivere a un'epidemia che porta coloro che vengono contagiati a togliersi la vita.Un professore di scienze, sua moglie e una ragazzina cercano di sopravvivere a un'epidemia che porta coloro che vengono contagiati a togliersi la vita.
- Premi
- 3 vittorie e 10 candidature totali
M. Night Shyamalan
- Joey
- (voce)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizMark Wahlberg admitted that he regrets working on this movie, but said, "You can't blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook."
- Blooper(at around 58 mins) A man refuses to let Elliot and his companions into his house because he does not want to let the "poison gas" inside. However, all the house's windows are open.
- Citazioni
Mrs. Jones: Planning on stealing something?
Elliot Moore: No, ma'am, we're not.
Mrs. Jones: Plan on murdering me in my sleep?
Elliot Moore: What? No!
- Curiosità sui creditiMoving clouds form the backdrop for the opening and closing credits. On the end credits, they've become stormclouds with lightning. On the end credits, M. Night Shyamalan's name vanishes.
- Versioni alternativeGerman version was edited prior to submission to the FSK by the director himself to secure a "Not under 16" rating. These cuts included:
- a needle piercing a throat during a suicide
- a man's arm being bitten off by lions
- a man dying under a lawnmower This version was released on DVD in the UK. However, for the German home video release the complete version was submitted. Ironically, this version was rated "Not under 16" as well (making the cut version even more redundant as guidelines for home video are stronger than for theatrical releases).
- Colonne sonoreBlack Water
Written by Patrick Simmons
Recensione in evidenza
Shyamalan has proved to us earlier that he can be as good as the best with masterpieces of cinema with The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Yet, since then, he has declined steadily. Signs and Village were good movies, but with Lady in the Water and now The Happening, he has touched a level of incompetence that could never have been expected of him.
The Happening is about a pandemic that is gripping north-eastern USA. It starts with a stunning sequence of events that show people succumb to an unspecified threat the brilliance of this opening repeated only once more for a five-minute sequence towards the end of the movie. Unfortunately, Shyamalan's writing is a big let-down for the rest. As the focus moves from metropolitans to towns and from crowds to smaller groups, the sense of fear is lost the biggest sin a horror movie can commit. In the oft repeated criticism for its director, this movie would have been best served as a half-hour episode of Twilight Zone to make it really work.
And to add woe, the actors do not do much to better the experience Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel are grossly miscast as the protagonists. Any of his previous leading men (Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Paul Giamatti) can be imagined to have done a better job for the Science teacher that Wahlberg plays. The camera scrutinizes the performance to a degree that requires an actor with strength in emotions Wahlberg instead brings a physical presence that the role does not need. Zooey, on the other hand, struts around like in a Disney movie, not for once threatened by the pandemonium.
This time, though Shyamalan humbles his vanity you don't see him on screen. He now should swallow his pride and leave the writing to the writers. Armed with a better script, we can still expect Shyamalan to make his future movies worth waiting for. For now it is only the memory of the opening sequence, which can be proclaimed as mind-numbing greatness, which is really worth taking away from this movie.
The Happening is about a pandemic that is gripping north-eastern USA. It starts with a stunning sequence of events that show people succumb to an unspecified threat the brilliance of this opening repeated only once more for a five-minute sequence towards the end of the movie. Unfortunately, Shyamalan's writing is a big let-down for the rest. As the focus moves from metropolitans to towns and from crowds to smaller groups, the sense of fear is lost the biggest sin a horror movie can commit. In the oft repeated criticism for its director, this movie would have been best served as a half-hour episode of Twilight Zone to make it really work.
And to add woe, the actors do not do much to better the experience Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel are grossly miscast as the protagonists. Any of his previous leading men (Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Paul Giamatti) can be imagined to have done a better job for the Science teacher that Wahlberg plays. The camera scrutinizes the performance to a degree that requires an actor with strength in emotions Wahlberg instead brings a physical presence that the role does not need. Zooey, on the other hand, struts around like in a Disney movie, not for once threatened by the pandemonium.
This time, though Shyamalan humbles his vanity you don't see him on screen. He now should swallow his pride and leave the writing to the writers. Armed with a better script, we can still expect Shyamalan to make his future movies worth waiting for. For now it is only the memory of the opening sequence, which can be proclaimed as mind-numbing greatness, which is really worth taking away from this movie.
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- Sito ufficiale
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- Celebre anche come
- El fin de los tiempos
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 48.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 64.506.874 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 30.517.109 USD
- 15 giu 2008
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 163.404.284 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 31 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1
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