--- title: M. Night Shyamalan Movie The Happening Gets Honest Trailer description: Why is this happening? canonical: https://time.com/4026271/honest-trailer-m-night-shyamalan-the-happening/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-09T14:29:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:26.443Z og:title: Watch the Honest Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening' og:description: Why is this happening? og:url: https://time.com/4026271/honest-trailer-m-night-shyamalan-the-happening/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf94d6bd39b7527bc/698862a9428a9e0fb7ccf00f/screen-shot-2015-09-09-at-15-27-33.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 15.27.33 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Honest Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening' twitter:description: Why is this happening? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf94d6bd39b7527bc/698862a9428a9e0fb7ccf00f/screen-shot-2015-09-09-at-15-27-33.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Honest Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's _The Happening_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 9, 2015 2:29 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 9, 2015 2:29 PM UTC Remember M. Night Shyamalan’s film _The Happening_? You know, the “laugh-out-loud comedy of 2008 that was supposed to be a horror movie?” The film in which “Mark Wahlberg delivers a Donny Wahlberg level of performance,” at least according to Honest Trailers who turned their gimlet eyes on the movie. Shyamalan is returning to theaters this week with a new found footage horror flick called, _The Visit_, which was a good enough reason for [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpcACMWblDls9Z6GERVi1A) (the team behind Honest Trailers) to take a look back at the apocalyptic movie that starred Wahlberg as a teacher who noticed that something was “happening” — a thought that gets repeated a lot in the film. As usual, the Honest Trailer takes a searingly frank look at the movie, which is considered a clunker in Shyamalan’s catalog. The Honest Trailer is so honest, it is probably making Shyamalan hang his head in dismay and ask, “Why is this happening?” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4026271/honest-trailer-m-night-shyamalan-the-happening/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4026271/honest-trailer-m-night-shyamalan-the-happening/"},"headline":"Watch the Honest Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening","datePublished":"2015-09-09T14:29:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:26.443Z","description":"Why is this happening?","url":"https://time.com/4026271/honest-trailer-m-night-shyamalan-the-happening/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","mark wahlberg","honest trailers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf94d6bd39b7527bc/698862a9428a9e0fb7ccf00f/screen-shot-2015-09-09-at-15-27-33.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf94d6bd39b7527bc/698862a9428a9e0fb7ccf00f/screen-shot-2015-09-09-at-15-27-33.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 15.27.33","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4026271/honest-trailer-m-night-shyamalan-the-happening/","name":"Watch the Honest Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening"}}]}] ```