8 Horror Movies With Incredible Hidden Messages You Totally Missed

Remember the Birdbox challenge where people were wandering around with blindfolds on into oncoming traffic? Me neither, but the internet sure made it out as if it was some global epidemic of idiocy. Interestingly, that phenomenon is a apt extension of the very real problem Birdbox was trying to represent: that social media is the unseen monster destroying our daily lives.

Why social media? It's an ever present, maddening force on a global scale that has been proven time and time again to disrupt our mental health - yet it's only visible to those looking for it. And for those that have been taken in by its power and force others to look too, there's a clear line that can be drawn to internet trolls and their intent on hurting people online.

To further reinforce this reading, at the beginning of Birdbox sisters Jessica and Malorie have a conversation about Malorie's painting, one that aptly appears to be The Last Supper imagined as a group of people on their phones. Malorie quips: “The loneliness is just incidental. It’s really about people’s inability to connect.” Meta commentary for the film, anyone?

We see computer screens smashed as a frontline of defence, we hear impossible memories that would only be normally accessible through digital recording, and we have a straight up warning from a news anchor saying to avoid social media, to then be taken to a world where technology is a thing of the past. Innovation really is the enemy.