Parents Guide for
The Happening (2008) More at IMDbPro »

A women talks to her husband about how she had dessert with another man while they were married though it is brief and not very detailed.

A woman stabs herself in the side of the neck with a large, metal hair stick (we see the wound with blood seeping out of it).

A man lays on the ground and allows a ride-on lawnmower to drive over him, the scene cuts away just as the blood starts spraying

A group of construction workers leap off of a tall building to their deaths. One is shown in graphic detail as the man hits the ground and other workers look at his broken body.

A man jumps in a lion cage at a zoo and gets attacked by a lion. We see the lion begin ripping the man's arm off in graphic detail.

A police officer shoots himself in the head (you only hear the gunshot), when he falls to the ground we see a bullet hole and blood squirting out. A few more people follow suit.

We see many dead bodies hanging from trees by nooses.

A red jeep slams hard into a tree, totaling it and the driver's body flies through the windshield; a passenger exits the vehicle, sits down slits his wrists with broken glass from the crash.

We see an older woman slam her head through two different windows; it is also implied that she bangs her head against a wall. After she slams her head through a window her face turns bloody and we clearly see many glass shards stuck in her face.

We see people getting shot with guns.

Two kids are shot with a shotgun; one in the chest, another in the back of the head. Blood sprays at the camera. We see the impact of the shotgun blast.

Bodies seen from a distance through binoculars

Two scenes of many people taking turns shooting themselves with the same gun (seen once, the other is only heard)

A man is seen cutting his wrists from a distance

A kid calls someone a pussy and a bitch. the end of a dirty joke about male genitalia is heard. brief sex related humor

Zooey Deschanel's character uses the word "asshole" twice.

A strange epidemic reaches the US causing the following stages to the human body: first, speech disablement. Second, the inability to move. And then, third, though not fully explained in any trailer or clip so far, the victims seem to have the urge to commit suicide, with scenes of falling bodies, stabbings, and hangings

a woman slaps a young child's wrist when she reaches for a cookie.

explosive startles

When Elliot looks for Mrs. Jones, he goes into her bedroom. On her bed there is a doll that may be frightening to some viewers.

the whole movie contains intense scenes depicting suicide, violent behaviour and terror.