12 Movies You Can Stop Watching After The Opening Scene
3. The Happening
Poor M Night Shyamalan—whenever it seems as if the infamous Split director might be making a comeback, he seems to be hobbled by the karma of plagiarizing R.L Stine’s Goosebumps to create his most enduringly popular hit, The Sixth Sense.
Sure, 2004’s The Village may have been dismissed
by both critics and audiences due to its inane twist, but 2006’s Lady in the Water
was a return to form, right?
Sure, and Shyamalan followed up this low budget Spielbergian story with an
intense sci-fi mystery whose opening scene left viewers blown away. Depicting a
group of seemingly normal civilians suddenly committing violent acts of self
harm and suicide apropos of nothing, the sequence was a nightmare of epic
proportions, comparable to the famous opening of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead
but somehow scarier for its dissonant sense of tranquillity.
Killer opening—if only the film didn’t go on to explain that the rhododendron was the unseen mastermind behind this planet-wide bloodbath.