Just as Malorie turns behind to get the phone, Jessica sees the creature. People start going crazy all around them, and they drive out. She tells Jessica that whatever they saw in the news about Russia is also happening in their city. The book, however, does feature animals and you can read about it here – Bird Box: Movie vs Book.Īt the hospital, one lady sees the creature and begins to bash her head violently on the glass pane. It’s a fair assumption to make that the animals, too, have had the same reaction to the creatures. But, through the plot, we don’t see any animals. The theory is that crazy people have already been through extreme emotions of sorrow and despair and are, in a sense, immune.īird Box: Do the creatures affect animals too?

Humans who already have mental issues consider it to be an act of divine cleansing and go around forcing everyone to see them.

Regular humans commit suicide on visual contact.

Humans get affected only if you see them.

So enough hints are dropped in the film to suggest demons. You’ve got the Puca from Celtic mythology. You’ve got the Surgat from ancient Christian occult beliefs that made pregnant women encounter their unborn children as other creatures such as lobsters or spiders. You got the Aka Manah, the various Daevas from ancient Zoroastrian legend. But it’s not indeed the end, which is what Bird Box is about.

In this film, the apocalyptic end of humans (and perhaps animals) comes in the form of self-destruction. We’ll get to how these drawing got made later on, but these look like various images of demons from hell. While we are never directly shown what these creatures look like, there is a scene well into the film where we see drawings that could possibly indicate what the monsters are. Most people die, and the survivors need to blindfold themselves so that they don’t end up killing themselves.

There is no rhyme or reason to the arrival of the creatures all over the world, but the wave of suicides begins in Russia and quickly sweeps the whole world. And it has come in the form of creatures who instill so much anguish and despair that it makes people commit suicide by merely looking at it.

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