The Happening is a 2008 American apocalyptic film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel.

The film revolves around a pandemic that begins in New York City, and quickly spreads across eastern United States. The pandemic is a toxin that has a devestating mental effect on humans: victims that breath in the toxin immediatly ceace what they are doing, have loss of speech and become physically disoriented. Finally, the victim unfreezes and commits suicide by the closest means possible: people jump from buildings, shoot or hang or cut themselves, throw themselves into barbed wire, drive vehicles off roads, and various other fatal means. The toxin is apparently spread by the wind.

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