Bird Box: Barcelona review - All the usual post-apocalyptic fodder

Struck down with doubt and continued search for redemption, Sebastián comes across another group of survivors, including a German girl separated from her mother during the initial attack and Claire (Georgina Campbell), a young British doctor left stranded in Barcelona during a work trip.

Armed with new information about a rumoured survivors camp on the other side of the city, the group battles against the creatures and a group of religious zealots who seem immune to the creatures' effects.

There is more than just a hint of similarity between Bird Box: Barcelona and the Pastor brothers' cult 2013 post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi thriller The Last Days which followed a man who must deal with the potential end of all humanity.

While Bird Box: Barcelona has none of the subtle bleakness of Brier's first film, the Pastors still manage to bring an interesting twist to Malerman's excellent original idea. 

It's all the usual post-apocalyptic fodder of quarrelling survivors and end of the seat suspense a la George A Romero, but there is nothing here sadly that we haven’t seen a million times before.

Fans of the first film will be glad to finally have some answers to the mystery behind the suicides, but sadly this isn’t a patch on the first movie.