“Bird Box Barcelona” Movie Review

 

“Bird Box Barcelona”

 

Movie Review

 

Bird Box Barcelona is a 2023 post-apocalyptic horror thriller film directed and written by Álex and David Pastor. A spin-off sequel to the 2018 film Bird Box, adapted from Josh Malerman's 2014 novel of the same name, it was released on Netflix on July 14, 2023 to mixed reviews.

The world is plagued by mysterious entities that manipulate people's negative emotions, turning some into "seers" but leading most people to commit suicide once they have seen an entity. A common prevention method is wearing a blindfold outdoors. In Barcelona, Spain, Sebastián and his daughter Anna travel together. One day Sebastián encounters a group of survivors and claims he knows the location of generators that can provide light and heating. Sebastián joins the others in their shelter inside a bus hangar. The next morning, with everyone asleep inside a bus, Sebastián drives it outside and crashes it. Everyone is left without blindfolds; Sebastián slowly leads each to open their eyes, and upon witnessing the entities they commit suicide. Sebastián is revealed to be a seer and is thus unaffected. Anna congratulates Sebastián on having "saved" the people, urging him to find the other "lost sheep".