Bullock, known for Miss Congeniality as well as dramas The Blind Side and Gravity, plays Malorie, a woman desperate to keep her two children safe from an unseen threat that leads people to commit suicide.

Premiering the film in Berlin, the 54-year-old said that while she was not usually a fan of scary movies, she enjoyed adding the genre to her portfolio of work.

“Here we had a journey that couldn’t have happened without this deep complex, intricate love story about a family and social commentary on what we all feel is the state of the world,” Bullock told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.

“Everyone has a different thought about what’s happening in the world today so those two blending together is a rare thing.”

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Based on the 2014 novel by Josh Malerman, Bird Box sees Malorie take her children on a dangerous trip into the wild, all blindfolded, as they try to escape an “ominous unseen presence”, which if seen, leads to devastating consequences.

“I found I became very agitated, very angry, very frustrated, short tempered and I didn’t realize it was a result of having been blindfolded until like halfway through,” Bullock said.

“I went ‘Oh my God, it’s because I don’t have my tools of expression as an actor’ ... But I think in the end ...it helped give a really jagged feeling to those scenes rather than if I had holes cut in my blindfold and I could see and I was pretending to stumble and be blind.”

Bird Box, a Netflix film directed by Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier, also stars Bullock’s Oceans’ Eight co-star Sarah Paulson and actor John Malkovich.

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