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Bird Box is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror thriller film directed by Susanne Bier from a screenplay written by Eric Heisserer, and based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Josh Malerman. The film follows a woman, played by Sandra Bullock, as she tries to protect herself and two children from malevolent supernatural entities that make people who look at them go insane and commit suicide.

Bird Box had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 12, 2018, and began a limited release on December 14, before streaming worldwide on Netflix on December 21, 2018.

In a post-apocalyptic world, Malorie Hayes advises two young, unnamed children that they will be going downstream on a river in a rowboat. She sternly instructs them to not remove their blindfolds, or else they will die. From this point, the film alternates between two stages of Malorie's story, separated by five years, until they conjoin: her attempt to navigate the river and the events that led to it.

Five years earlier, a pregnant Malorie is visited by her sister, Jessica. A news report is on television about unexplained mass suicides in Romania that are quickly spreading across Europe. Jessica accompanies Malorie to a routine checkup. When leaving the hospital, Malorie sees a woman bashing her head into a glass panel followed by others panicking as chaos erupts. Jessica sees the entity, loses control of herself as she drives, and the car overturns. An injured Malorie then watches Jessica walk into the path of an oncoming truck, killing herself.

Malorie flees on foot, while a woman invites Malorie over to a house for safety even though her husband, Douglas, disagrees. However, the woman goes into a trance, begins talking to her dead mother, and casually climbs into a burning car. Malorie is rescued and brought into their house by Tom, a fleeing passerby. While recovering at their base, Charlie, one of the survivors who seems to have somewhat comprehensive knowledge of what could be happening, theorizes that demonic entities have invaded Earth, taking the form of their victims' worst fears and driving them insane. At Tom's insistence, they cover all the windows, and they blindfold themselves whenever they must venture outside. Later, Greg volunteers to tie himself to a chair while monitoring the surveillance cameras to see the entity on TV as it approaches but ends up killing himself by rocking his chair violently and slamming his head into a hearthstone after seeing it.

As the supply of food decreases (and with the arrival of a new survivor, Olympia, who is also pregnant), most of the group go to a nearby supermarket. Malorie finds pet birds and decides to take them along with their supplies. The group attempts to help a coworker of Charlie's who is locked outside the supermarket begging for help, and whom Charlie describes as "a little crazy". As they contemplate the risks of opening the door, the birds go into hysterics. The group is attacked by the coworker, who was not killed by the entities but is instead used to infect others. Charlie sacrifices himself to save the others, who can make it back to the house.

Sometime after, Felix (a survivor) and Lucy steal the car and drive away. Soon thereafter, Olympia lets Gary, a stranger and lone survivor of another group, into the house, against Douglas's objections. Douglas threatens the others with a shotgun but is knocked unconscious and imprisoned in the garage. Later, Olympia and Malorie go into labor. A girl and a boy are born. At the same time, Gary works on various drawings of the entities and seems to undergo a trance. He then puts the birds in the freezer, and peek outside through the windows and starts tearing the paper that's blocking the windows. He opens the garage door in an attempt to get Douglas to see, then knocks out Tom and goes upstairs. He seems quite curious about the babies and starts to uncover all the windows in the room to force the people to see. Olympia fails to look away and jumps out the window. Malorie saves Olympia's baby and hide her with her and her baby under a cover. Gary forces Cheryl to look and Cheryl repeatedly stabs herself in the neck with a pair of scissors. Douglas blindly attempts to kill Gary with a shotgun but fails, which results in Gary being able to kill Douglas with scissors. While Malorie tries to protect the newborn babies (Malorie's boy and Olympia's girl), Tom recovers consciousness in time to overpower and kill Gary.

Five years later, Tom and Malorie are living together with the children, whose only names are "Boy" and "Girl". Malorie is worried because she has been crossing paths with unblindfolded survivors more often during runs. They receive a transmission from Rick, a survivor stating that they are well and safe at a community hidden in the forest. The four decide to go to the community but are ambushed by a group of unblindfolded along the way. Without hesitation, Tom runs out to distract the group while Malorie and the children attempt to escape. When the group notices Malorie and the children escaping, Tom decides to open his eyes and shoot the group dead. He is overtaken by one of the entities, but he manages to shoot the last member of the group before shooting himself.

Malorie, the children, and their pet birds, which are being carried in a box to provide a warning against the entity, make their way blindfolded down the river on a boat. The boat flips in the rapids, but Malorie, Boy, and Girl manage to all find each other. Soon after, all three are separated when Malorie accidentally slides down a hill and the entities attempt to convince Boy and Girl to remove their blindfolds using Malorie's voice. Malorie regains consciousness and asks the children to fight the urge and come back to her.

The three eventually reach the community, a former school for the blind. They finally meet Rick. Malorie sees Dr. Lapham, her maternal-fetal specialist there. She then releases the birds and finally gives the children names, Tom and Olympia, and acknowledges herself to be their mother.

Directed by Susanne Bier

Produced by

Dylan Clark

Chris Morgan

Clayton Townsend

Screenplay by Eric Heisserer

Based on Bird Box

by Josh Malerman

Starring

Sandra Bullock

Trevante Rhodes

John Malkovich

Danielle Macdonald

Sarah Paulson

Music by

Trent Reznor

Atticus Ross

Cinematography Salvatore Totino

Edited by Ben Lester

Production

company

Bluegrass Films

Chris Morgan Productions

Distributed by Netflix

Release date

November 12, 2018 (AFI Fest)

December 14, 2018 (United States)

Running time

124 minutes

Language English

Budget $19.8 million

Cast

Sandra Bullock as Malorie Hayes

Trevante Rhodes as Tom

Jacki Weaver as Cheryl

John Malkovich as Douglas

Sarah Paulson as Jessica Hayes

Rosa Salazar as Lucy

Danielle Macdonald as Olympia

Lil Rel Howery as Charlie

Tom Hollander as Gary

Machine Gun Kelly as Felix (credited as Colson Baker)

BD Wong as Greg

Pruitt Taylor Vince as Rick

Vivien Lyra Blair as Girl / Olympia

Julian Edwards as Boy / Tom

Parminder Nagra as Dr. Lapham

Rebecca Pidgeon as Lydia

Amy Gumenick as Samantha

Taylor Handley as Jason

Happy Anderson as River Man

David Dastmalchian as Whistling Marauder