The Happening

Some thoughts:

Lacked depth. While Hitchcock's influence was present, it felt like an affectation, not the result of well-orchestrated suspense.
Rushed.
Moments of truly terrible acting.
Not nearly as scary as The Birds, the first film I was reminded of...
Illustrations of how to maim a body are plentiful to the point of being comical, or campy. I wanted to laugh at one point, probably not his intention...
I still liked it for some reason. Maybe because it was so bad, or maybe because I want to believe in M. Night Shyamalan's work. Unbreakable and Sixth Sense were both well done. The last few: Mel Gibson and the water-allergic aliens, the period Quaker era thriller with Jaoquin Phoenix, the lady and the water...notsomuch.