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The Happening
Science Fiction, Thriller
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?
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy paranoid disaster scenarios with ominous environmental themes, uneasy mystery, and deliberately strange tonal shifts.
- Tone
- eerie, dread, darkly comic
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- survival, environmental threat, collective panic, marital strain, uncertainty
- Setting
- contemporary, northeastern urban areas and rural countryside
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