1st, Bird Box is a psychological thriller. Not a drama. Not a horror. Bird Box is written with the assumption that it’s viewer is semi-educated in abnormal psych 101.
2nd, Bird Box isn’t comparable to A Quiet Place. It’s comparable to Silence of The Lambs or Split. Real trauma doesn’t require monsters. Real trauma means accepting that surviving IS living. Sociopaths are unaffected and only connections silence fear. A very engaging study about why we don’t escape our past and why we must learn to go through it.