These people are equally as dangerous as the threat itself.Ī pregnant woman named Olympia ( Danielle Macdonald) bashes on the door to try to get in and Tom allows it, against Douglas’ wishes.

These people are, instead, driven to force survivors to “see the beautiful light”. It is learned that some individuals aren’t driven to suicide. The owner of the house dies after learning the harsh lesson that one can be affected through surveillance camera footage on a computer screen. This is the part that parallels The Mist: a group of survivors are trapped in a building while an unknown all-encompassing danger surrounds them, preventing them from leaving without risking death. Among them are alcoholic hothead Douglas ( John Malkovich), nerdy mythology enthusiast Charlie ( Lil Rel Howery), literally Machine Gun Kelly, and, of course, eventual love interest Tom ( Trevante Rhodes). Shaken AND stirred, the very pregnant Malorie hobbles her way over to safety in a house occupied by a handful of other people. Why, Sarah Paulson… your eyes are ravishing! When it doesn’t kill her, she intentionally steps in front of a passing semitruck. Eventually, among the pandemonium, Jessica becomes mentally dissociative and intentional crashes the car. Shortly thereafter, complete chaos ensues on the street as Jessica drives them home.

Upon leaving the hospital with her sister Jessica ( Sarah Paulson) after an ultrasound, Malorie witnesses a woman in the hallway voluntarily smashing her own head repeatedly against a window. News reports of mysterious mass suicides in Europe and Asia are ubiquitous, but waved off.

The movie begins with Malorie Hayes ( Sandra Bullock) and her two children, aptly named Boy and Girl, donned in blindfolds, hurriedly boarding a rowboat and embarking upon a long journey down the river.įive years earlier, Malorie is pregnant. When seen by human eyes, these creatures cause a sudden, immediate desire to commit suicide. In the not-too-distant future, a post-apocalyptic event is spurred by the sudden existence of supernatural, unseen entities on Earth. Maybe I’ll do my own blindfold challenge! Yeah. After watching this movie, I’ll get more context on that. I heard that people crashed cars during “blindfold challenges”, so that sounds fun. I watched and enjoyed The Mist and, obviously, this is similar.

If I ever get around to the book, I probably won’t remember any of the movie anymore anyway. I like reading the book first on anything, but it’s taking me six months to read 300-page books these days so I decided to just cut my losses and suck it up.

Tom bird box death