I saw it so you don't have to: The Happening (1967)
So the first surprise is that the frankly awful title "The Happening" was used for a movie before the 2008 version. The second is that the movie is still weird and not great: the tone is “what if the Monkees committed capital crimes on a whim.” This was a catch from PVRing weird stuff on late at night, and I got it because it stars Anthony Quinn and Faye Dunaway, and was produced partially by Sam Spiegel?! Spiegal produced On the Waterfront, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia, that last of which is one of my all time favorite movies, where Quinn in that plays one of the all time movie badasses, Auda Abi Tayi. Of course, the next movie Spiegal produced was the it-stinks-out-loud The Chase (1966), which I'd recommend if you've ever said to yourself "I want to see an eye-rollingly pompous mid-century American Novel boringly told," with Marlon Brando doing a southern accent I'd characterize as "Steven Segal-esque", if I...