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

7. The Happening

The Plot: Mass suicides have become an epidemic across the northeastern United States, and the husband and wife team of Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel are having none of it. They flee from the presumed bio-terrorist attack as people all around them continue to kill themselves once they're affected by an airborne neurotoxin.

The Twist: The mysterious force causing people to commit suicide for no apparent reason is... plants. Seriously. The plants did it. They're emitting the neurotoxin because they don't like the way humans are treating the planet.

So, essentially, Shyamalan decided to ruin a perfectly good mystery thriller by turning his feature film into a 90-minute PSA about the dangers of pollution. And hey, it's a great message and all, but Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth had already tackled this pretty thoroughly just a couple of years earlier. And he did it without bothering Mark Wahlberg.

Shyamalan had already proven his deep fascination with Mother Nature several times over, but The Happening pushed that fascination into a full-blown mania. Unfortunately, his well-meaning "statement" turned into a big ol' punchline.