I Love Horror Movies

Number nine on my never finished, ever being added to list of favorite horror movies: The Bird Box. The first scene is intense and terrifying as you are trying to figure out why Sandra Bullock would speak this way to tiny children, and you don't really lose that tension the whole movie. The acting is, as is most of my favorites, excellent. The relationship between Sandra Bullock and Tom was one I didn't think I'd believe, but I absolutely did. I love not seeing the monster, because really - does it matter? Most intense and terrifying is the storyline of her relationship with the children. The scene as they approached the rapids just tore my guts out. Ok that isn't horror but it was a horrific moment. The monsters calling to them in voices of their loved ones feels less scary to me than other ways of tricking people; it seems too contrived, and too human, really. I prefer monsters that act like monsters. But overall, I really enjoyed this movie, and the soft bubbly happy ending was sooo needed! Not often I want to see that in a horror movie but come on - it's little kids. Just my kind of movie.

ContributorJo · 51-55, M

Really Liked "Bird Box" the only real criticism is that those birds survived in that box the entire trip! There are continuity problems where they didn't even have the box and there is just no way they would have made it through the rapids. However I find it easy to forgive in this case.

ninjavu · 51-55, M

Never heard of it (and I like Bullock), but now I want to see it. Don't see much truly horrifying horror films these days, but perhaps I'm just jaded.

SushiRed · 51-55, F

@ninjavu it was released straight onto Netflix, back in December. I don't know how that worked out for them, but I really enjoyed being able to watch it the day it came out! I made sure not to read anything about it, because that usually turns me off movies in the end. I have a pretty particular taste in horror movies, so too have a hard time finding ones I enjoy. The monsters were not as scary as the world they created with their presence, or how Sandra bullock's intense and emotionally stunted character reacted to that world.