Trailers

Ok, Is This The Official The Happening Trailer?

A few weeks ago, we posted up a trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s latest “thriller,” The Happening, that emphasized the film’s plot that a worldwide suicide epidemic was striking. It started out with a girl stabbing herself in the neck with a needle. That trailer was soon yanked from the web, but I just saw a new trailer before Jumper yesterday.

What was interesting about this new trailer is that it totally played down the whole suicide angle. You wouldn’t even know people were committing suicide in it, except for one random scene of people falling off of a building, but it’s not clear that they’re jumping. I guess the “Hey kids, suicide is fun!” marketing plan was changed in favor for this new one.

While it’s not clear exactly what is “happening,” the trailer plays up the “it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature” aspect of the film. As people are dying, we also get a lot of trees shaking their leaves, which makes the whole thing look kind of funny. Although the embedded trailer below is the same exact one I saw in the theater, who knows if this will continue to be available or if it’ll get yanked, too.

Also, this movie had better include “Teen Suicide (Don’t Do It!)” by Big Fun on the soundtrack.

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