It was a 7pm on December 23rd when I realised that I had worked my way through the majority of Netflix’s sickly sweet, Christmas film offerings.
A Christmas Prince? Watched the first AND the sequel. The Princess Switch? I’ve seen it twice. What about The Holiday Calendar, I hear you ask? So ridiculously bad that it became endearingly okay (note: not good, just okay). Now add in the classic annual viewings of Love Actually and The Holiday and I was in a Christmas-film induced coma of ridiculously cheesy plot lines, and festive fluff.
So I went for something a little different and clicked play on one of Netflix’s latest releases, Bird Box.
Starring Sandra Bullock and Moonlight actor, Trevante Rhodes, Bird Box is not a Christmas film, but you should definitely watch it this festive period.
It’s based on the post-apocalyptic novel by Josh Malerman and it had me gripped from the very beginning.
The premise alone is terrifying. The entire human race is being ravaged by ‘the creatures’ – an unseen presence driving people to take their own lives.
Soon our survivors, led by Sandra Bullock, realise that the only way to avoid succumbing to this is by wearing blindfolds and blacking out all windows to the outside world.
There’s just one problem, ‘the creatures’ aren’t the only ones after them.
Watch the trailer for Netflix’s Bird Box right over here:
