Gallery: The Happening

When New York is struck by a series of inexplicable mass suicides, science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) escape to the country to flee what is being touted as a terrorist attack. However, it soon becomes clear that even the remotest hamlet is not safe from the happening. Sixth Sense director M. Night Shymalan's post-September 11 chiller veers between comedy-horror and grisly terror to deliver a sombre ecological warning.