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M. Night Shayamalan has built his reputation on mind-blowing twists, and gut-tensing suspense. But his new film The Happening is like nothing the director has attempted before.
In The Happening, the world and nature get their revenge for decades of pollution and mistreatment, and within a span of hours puts the future of mankind at risk. Unlike the director's previous films, The Happening is R-rated, which freed Shyamalan to go for broke when it came to creating disturbing images.
Famously skeptical of digital effects, Shyamalan did as much as possible in frame, using wind machines, mechanical special effects and on set pyrotechnics whenever possible during the film's 44-day shoot last year in Pennsylvania.
For effects that couldn't be created on set, Shyamalan turned to VFX houses such as ILM and CafeFX, which created a number of memorable and gory sequences for the film.
David Ebner, vfx supervisor for CafeFX on the film, says Shyamalan's overriding goal for visual effects is that they be as convincing as possible.
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