The Happening

(This review will contain potentially triggery material, such as reference to suicide).

(This review may contain spoilers).

This film particularly creeped me out when I saw it originally at the cinema. It did even when I watched it just now, but less than when I watched it the first time.

There’s something quite scary about people acting strangely on a mass scale, whether because they’re becoming zombies, killing people, or – in this case – killing themselves. The scene right at the start was quite scary, though if I’m honest, one person being seemingly unaffected did kind of take away from the tension.

I think there was probably a lot about this film that didn’t work so well, such as the explanation for what was happening. It was intriguing to see different characters’ reactions to what was going on. And, well, some people were quite crazy anyway, it looked like.

There was a lot that was disturbing about this film, but I don’t think there were any really ‘jumpy’ moments. I recognised quite a lot of the actors in the film and I did like the characters they played. And the plot was a fairly intriguing one.