



Bier and her Netflix producers have made an algorithmic chiller that includes every trend from the sensory deprivation horror of Don’t Breathe and A Quiet Place to JJ Abrams’ mysterious monsters to thunderingly thematic sci-fi like Arrival, which screenwriter Eric Heisserer also penned. Sighs Mallory: “It’s going to feel like it’s going on for a long time.”īoy, does it. Now, she has to shepherd these kids out of their home, into a rowboat, and down a dangerous river – blindfolded. She’s outlasted the rest of her random roommates, a grab-bag of people who, like her, blundered into the first open door the morning most of the planet got massacred, a baby carriage rolling down the street as though Bird Box wants Battleship Potemkin to make room. She’s spent five years surviving this plague-beast-Armageddon-whatsit, most of them trapped in this house. Two small children stare back in silent fear. “If you look, you will die,” Mallory orders.
