James Newton Howard - Happening Soundtrack - CD

From director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) comes a lightning-paced, heart-pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind...but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.

It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities.

For Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg) what matters most is finding a way to escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon. Though he and his wife Alma ( Zooey Deshanel) are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot's math teacher friend Julian ( Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo) and his 8 year-old daughter Jess, heading for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they'll be out of reach of the grisly, ever-growning attacks. Yet it soon becomes clear that no one - and nowhere - is safe.

Returning to the collaboration that spawned his acclaimed scores for films as The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village (Academy Award nominee) and Lady In The Water, composer James Newton Howard reached another career milestone with this major new opus.

By T Johnson