BIRD BOX (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sandra Bullock (Gravity), Sarah Paulson (Ocean’s 8), Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight), Rosa Salazar (Maze Runner: The Death Cure), Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$), John Malkovich (Con Air), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Machine Gun Kelly (Nerve), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight), Tom Hollander (Bohemian Rhapsody), BD Wong (Jurassic World), Parminder Nagra (Bend It Like Beckham), Amy Gumenick (The Binding), Happy Anderson (Bright)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Susanne Bier (In A Better World), director; Eric Heisserer (Arrival), writer; Dylan Clark (Oblivion), Chris Morgan (The Vatican Tapes), Barbara Muschietti (It), Scott Stuber (Ted) and Clayton Townsend (Natural Born Killers), producers; Trent Reznor (The Social Network) and Atticus Ross (Gone Girl), composers; Salvatore Totino (Spider-Man: Homecoming), cinematographer; Ben Lester (The Dinosaur Project), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A mysterious force decimates a large chunk of the world’s population, causing anyone that sees it to immediately kill themselves. In order to get herself and her two children to safety, Malorie (Bullock) undertakes a perilous two-day journey down a treacherous river towards the one place left that offers sanctuary – but to avoid falling victim to whatever is causing the epidemic, they must do everything blindfolded…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

If A Quiet Place played with the basic human need to hear, Bird Box plays with our natural ability to see, making it an extremely intense and suspenseful horror-thriller that Hitchcock would be proud of.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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