Movie: A spate of suicides shocks America’s cities. Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife flee to the countryside to Elliot’s best friend, but there too, people begin to take their own lives, one after the other.

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Movie Details:

Blu-ray: The Happening (Director’s Cut)

Length: 90 minutes

Genre: Mystery thriller

Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Spencer Breslin, Zooey Deschanel

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Rating: R (USA), 15 (U.K.), FSK 16 (Germany)

Released: 2008

Picture Format: 1.85:1 (anamorphic)

Soundtracks: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (English), DTS 5.1 (German)

PICTURE QUALITY:
Average — the Blu-ray suffers from the same weakness as the DVD version: sharpness fluctuations, low depth of field, poor plasticity, excessively bright areas, and a milky picture.

(5 out of 10 points)

SOUND QUALITY:
All you can hear on the rear speakers is gusts of wind. At least the music is nicely distributed across all speakers.

BONUS MATERIAL:
Deleted scenes (15:45), a ‘making of’ (11:02), “Train Shooting” (4:15), D-BOX Motion Code, a picture-in-picture track, a text commentary, “The Hard Cut” (9:02), “I Hear You Whispering” (4:18), “Day for a Night” (6:45), “Elements of a Scene” (10:11), “Forces Unseen” (4:40), and “Gag Reel” (2:51).

(8 out of 10 points)