Despite lukewarm reviews, people are enamored with 'Bird Box'

Spoiler alert: this post contains some spoilers for the movie Bird Box.

Netflix's new horror movie Bird Box has been receiving some decent critical reception since its release on Friday, but despite some of its faults, viewers can't stop talking about the movie.

Specifically, people are enamored with the monster of Bird Box, if you can even call it a monster.

While many horror movies explain what it is that's haunting the protagonists, Bird Box keeps its threat pretty mysterious all the way through the end of the movie. There are some ideas presented as to what exactly is happening on Earth, but it's never made completely clear.

First, a quick overview of the movie: Bird Box seems to be like a mix between A Quiet Place, The Happening, and Cloverfield. There's a planet-level threat that's causing mass suicides, and the only way to not be affected by it is to visually block yourself off from the outside world. And nobody really knows why it's happening. Maybe it's a weird illness. Maybe it's demons. Maybe it's some otherworldly threat.

Whatever it is, it has people talking online. Some people are asking questions about how the movie's threat actually affects people and why some people are affected differently.

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Some viewers want more explanation as to how the world of Bird Box got like that in the first place.

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To help with these questions, some people have tried to break down Bird Box with thorough explainers, like this YouTube video that digs into the movie's themes and monsters.

Bird Box, similar to movies like Cloverfield and Inception, inspires discussion thanks to its vague and mysterious elements.

Of course, not all the online discussion around this movie revolves around constructive dissections of the lore and threat of the movie. Bird Box is also a great target for jokes and memes.

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Some people joked about how the characters acted in the movie.

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Many took aim at the namesake of the movie, the birds in the box.

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It may not be the best horror movie of 2018, but Bird Box has certainly inspired a lot of conversation and comments online.