Every M. Night Shyamalan Plot Twist Ranked From Worst To Best

11. The Happening - It's The Plants!

Plot: A mysterious phenomenon causes people to start killing themselves en-masse.

As if The Happening, with its horrific performances, laughable dialogue and general lack of thrills, wasn't already bad enough it also concludes with Shyamalan's worst twist ever.

The cause of the titular event is not an experiment, or a man-made chemical, or something extra-terrestrial or anything even remotely exciting. It's... the plants.

This is, of course, a stunningly stupid development and killer plants sounds like something out of a children's Halloween cartoon, not a big-budget studio horror film, but what's worse is that it completely kills the movie on a story level.

The thing is, the characters can't fight plants and they are completely powerless to stop anything, so this reveal renders the leads completely inactive in the story. This means that any suspense in lost.

Eventually, protagonist Elliot (A career-worst Mark Wahlberg, who gives one of the worst performances in any film from the last twenty years), his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) and a young girl named Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) survive when the phenomenon ends as suddenly as it began. Unsatisfying doesn't even cover it.