An extended clip from M. Night Shyamalan’s new film The Happening is now online (watch it above or in higher quality over on Yahoo), with an introduction from M. Night himself saying how he was inspired by films like The Godfather and The Exorcist. What we get are snippets of scenes we’ve seen previously from the trailers, as well as the extended version of the train scene when Mark Wahlberg walks up to those conductors and says, “With whom?” (I love that part and I don’t know why.) This is M. Night’s first R-rated film, and he claims it’s “the scariest movie he’s ever made.” I guess we’ll see about that. (Read full story …)

Okay, so we’ve got action, adventure, comedy and costumed characters up the wazzoo this year, but where are the movies to appease hardcore horror fans? Well, fright-master M. Night Shyamalan has the problem in hand with his latest shocker, the apocalyptic-tinged The Happening.

A real end-of-the-world terror tale, it’s shaping up to be a genuine event - if only to discover what the bloody hell is going on and why people across the world are simultaneously dropping dead.

A superbly creepy new video hit the Net today (see below), in which the writer/director introduces a clip from his latest flick and you can get a flavour of how the whole human extinction drama will unfold. What’s more, we have an new exclusive image of Mark Wahlberg looking confused (enlarge thumbnail below) and if that’s not enough, come back to Empire on Monday morning to check out another exclusive in the form of an ‘inspiration’ featurette which goes some way to unravelling M. Night’s latest mystery.

It’s all Happening here! (Read full story …)