A Quiet Place meets The Mist meets The Happening meets The Road meets I Am Legend (specifically with one of the alternating endings). That’s a quick and easy way to describe the effective Netflix release Bird Box. The A Quiet Place comparison is what many people are going to really compare this film to because of its proximity in release dates. I would have been upset if this was a cheap rip-off of, perhaps, the biggest surprise hit of 2018, replacing not making noise with not being able to see as the change. But Bird Box is based on a 2014 debut novel of the same name by Josh Malerman, years before previews of A Quiet Place were even created. And because of this, it makes the movie even more enjoyable because you get to wonder about Malerman’s inspirations rather than assuming that it was the aforementioned novel that he was trying to emulate.
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