New Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening

The best thing about this second trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's apocalyptic thriller the Happening (besides the fact that the enchanting Zooey D. is in it) is that it finally makes the film feel like a Shyamalan film. At his best, Syamalan can take the simplest deceit and make it utterly believable. In fact, one of the reasons I think many viewers were so baffled and upset by The Village (arguably his finest achievement) is that it was such a masterstroke of manipulation by a man so completely in control of his craft that it actually insulted people. I don't buy the argument that it was an anticlimactic let down because the monster was a fabrication but rather it made us point the finger and say "how dare you toy with my emotions like that you cad!" In that sense, I sort of see Shyamalan as being less a wannabe Spielberg and more a tin-pot Hitchcock.