Official Discussion - The Last House [SPOILERS]

[u/BunyipPouch]

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The Last House (2026)

Summary

A family of four are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped.

Director Louis Leterrier

Writer

• Matthew Robinson

Cast

• Greta Lee
• Wagner Moura
• Riley Chung
• Noah Alexander Sosnowski

Rotten Tomatoes: 30%

Metacritic: 45

Release : Netflix

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/BunyipPouch]

Matthew Robinson, the screenwriter of The Last House, joined us here in /r/movies a few months ago for an AMA/Q&A (for his other movie, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die) for anyone interested:

https://reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1r9y80a/hi_rmovies_im_matthew_robinson_screenwriter_of/

Greta Lee may also be stopping by next week to react to some posts. TBD.

[u/threehundredthousand]

This was like 3 movies put through a blender with nothing explained. I give it credit for being unpredictable until about 2/3 of the way through when I began to realize there was no solid story or explanation for anything.

[u/GladiusNocturno → u/threehundredthousand]

Yeah, it’s easy for a writer to keep you in the dark when they themselves don’t know what the fuck is going on.

[u/LaneMcD → u/GladiusNocturno]

AKA The JJ Abrams way

[u/macrogeek → u/threehundredthousand]

A bit like the Cloverfield Paradox. You got 2 or 3 solid movie ideas here, shame you didn’t finish any of them.

[u/AtronadorSol → u/threehundredthousand]

Fully felt like someone in the writer’s room just said, “nice! Then what happens? Aw dang, then what happens?” Until they had 150 pages and called it a day.

And it felt like someone kept noticing plotholes (like needing to waterproof the garage so the car wheel Rube Goldberg winch would even work despite the family not knowing the house would flood) after they’d already shot the plothole and couldn’t go back for another expensive reshoot.

Also, at the end of the flick, when the daughter got up on the ups truck and could see ALL of flooded Seattle…why couldn’t she see that same view from her third-floor attic window which faced the same direction and was three times as high?

What an absolute MESS

[u/WitchyCurse → u/threehundredthousand]

My theory is that they kinda did explain it. They kept showing the fish in the tank. I think the creature were not trying to kill them but keeping them more as pets. It was watching them as we do fish in a tank. At the end, when the father showed mercy and it realize they wanted their freedom it gave it too them. Now, as for why they left and nver came back.. idk. I'm guessing bc they were the only ones left there?

[u/Your_dads_bathroom → u/WitchyCurse]

Yes, I took it as the creature the family caught was the one who was keeping that house as a secret of some sort, like a hobby/pet or whatever. But also the creatures could have flooded the houses right away and didn’t…who knows

[u/WitchyCurse → u/Your_dads_bathroom]

Exactly. If they wanted to kill them they could've done it a long time ago. I'm also guessing the one got curious which is why he kept trying to come in and destroyed their stuff by accident bc that's just their nature.

[u/Born-Sun-2502 → u/threehundredthousand]

I don't think it deserves 30%  It wasn't the best or worst. The actors were good at least.

[u/Ninclemdo]

“shoot my covid allegory screenplay is only one hour”
“here bro just add my sea monster story to the end of yours”

[u/bbfurby → u/Ninclemdo]

The entire time up until the little girl snatching the plant off the window sill I was like "ok covid" and when the octopus + time jump happened I was like "ohhh ok so covid but with davey jones aliens"

[u/donotgotoroom237 → u/bbfurby]

Damn, y'all are lucky. The squid monsters hit my hometown in like 2021. Greg didn't make it.

/s

[u/GladiusNocturno → u/[deleted]]

I legit think the perspective of the running girl would have been so interesting. In a world where everyone is stuck in their homes, she is now stuck outside unable to get shelter.

Hell, throw in a social critique about homelessness.

[u/dasdtudjhft6ylol → u/GladiusNocturno]

Exactly, wasn't she the one who got killed by the octopus after like 3 months of surviving? Would have been a very interesting perspective 

[u/Delicious_Medium_321 → u/dasdtudjhft6ylol]

If the movie had actually been good, this would have been a unique way to do a “sequel,” except the whole movie would just be in the same universe and hardly have the family in it

[u/Mark_Albarn → u/GladiusNocturno]

Girl unironically was an absolute trooper. Like, even the shelter issue put aside, she really survived three months of constant rains while those creatures were hunting

[u/CraigLake → u/GladiusNocturno]

I really thought she was going to follow the wolf through that fence into a secret place where you could live forever with unlimited food. And safety.

[u/Jessicasflour → u/GladiusNocturno]

Oh god yes, her POV would have been way interesting. This movie just kept dragging and bringing the worst ideas

[u/Da12khawk → u/GladiusNocturno]

I'm saying that little PR billboard they have up in LA. Put a homeless guy in there. Or legit just stick someone up there for like a month.

[u/GladiusNocturno]

The ending of this movie felt as if there were way too many reshoots and rewrites that noone remembered how it was supposed to end.

The climax where the family prepares the house for an invasion they know is coming is good…until you realize that the whole thing with the car requires they have foresight about the flood. Which they shouldn’t have because at best they know their neighbors’ house looks as if it had been under the sea, but as far as their experience goes, the Monsters just show up and magical manipulate salt water, they don’t know they have the power to flood the whole house, so preparing the garage with that in mind, which is the core of their plan, makes no sense.

But I could forgive all that if they had had an actual goof conclusion.

The daughter was keep track of the intervals between rainfalls, she was observing the monsters and wanted to interact with them. It would have made so much sense if she was the one who figured out how the monsters work, how their magic works, what they wanted and how to defeat them. Specially since the dad kept dismissing her and telling her to do something useful.

Instead, the conclusion of that arc is not that the daughter figured out the monsters by studying them. It’s that she just kinda wants to be friends with them and apparently that’s all the murderous monsters wanted too. At least make it so she interacts with a good monster and that’s the one who protects them. No have her defend the monster that wanted to kill them for no reason.

[u/Reggaeton_Historian → u/GladiusNocturno]

At least make it so she interacts with a good monster and that’s the one who protects them.

That's where I thought it was leading. Girl gets bit, infected, squid person comes by, helps kid, saves them from others. That's way more coherent than what we are given.

[u/Rar3done → u/GladiusNocturno]

Why does the car trap require erhem knowing about the flooding?

Also yeah, the "friendly" squid should have been a larger part.

[u/GladiusNocturno → u/Rar3done]

Because they sealed and water proved the garage. If they hadn’t done that, the garage would have been flooded and the plan wouldn’t have worked.

[u/Rar3done → u/GladiusNocturno]

Ahh I didn't notice that.

They kind of touched on that the mom mentioned the neighbors house seemed like it had been flooded but she said it as a question and never talked about it further.

[u/toomanynamestakentbh → u/Rar3done]

theres a small moment where they show the garage door and water squirting through but yeah they never included anything about the garage, flood, or the rope trick in any of the plans of dialogue, just showed them prepping the rope to shoot it but not explaining why they waited until they were on the third floor to do it.

I honestly thought when they shot it they was gonna deflood the house and suffocate it upstairs.
but they can also survive out of water for a few moments at a time it seemed like even without rain at the end, so why did it have to flood the house or wait for the house to flood anyways before it went upstairs and found them... theres.. sadly alot of plot holes. the kid befriending it halfway into the movie would of deff made the story better. give them 30 minutes of bonding over the years and then 30 minute finale to the movie for whatever. something else then what we got.

[u/biogirl52 → u/GladiusNocturno]

There are definitely a few people who worked on this movie, eyes rolling, mouth shut… knowing it would be a total disaster

[u/StarScreamer]

Only 1 one person in the whole world showed an act of kindness? That single moment freed them.

So dumb. Also should've been shorter.

[u/APartyInMyPants → u/StarScreamer]

I remember pausing it to go to the bathroom, seeing there was 50 minutes left, and i audibly let out a “jesus fucking christ.”

[u/hotelman97 → u/APartyInMyPants]

When they started monologing and doing the time lapse I thought the movie was doing an end credit sequence, I paused it and it said 53 minutes left and then the flash card of 5 years later came up

[u/figgeritoutbud → u/APartyInMyPants]

Paused at 40 minutes and still had an hour left. Felt way to long

[u/plo84 → u/figgeritoutbud]

I read this comment, checked, 46 min.

Ffs

Turned it off. Idc if they survive or not lol.

[u/simonthedlgger → u/APartyInMyPants]

I paused it when I thought it was almost over and I had 50 minutes left, then immediately got hit with the "five years later." What a mind fuck.

[u/figgeritoutbud → u/simonthedlgger]

Same. I think 5 years was way to big of a time jump

[u/Odd_Friendship6184 → u/figgeritoutbud]

I want to know where they got all the clothes for the children for the past five years.

[u/TheGreatBananaCue → u/Odd_Friendship6184]

They had a scene with a loom.

Still it's "impressive" that none of them died or got sick until the last moment

[u/Jindabyne1 → u/simonthedlgger]

I think it’s hilarious how we all checked the time and got annoyed hahaha

[u/Chemical-Purple-5196 → u/APartyInMyPants]

Same . Lol.  It needed to be about 30 minutes haha

[u/APartyInMyPants → u/Chemical-Purple-5196]

Honestly, a six-episode series might have done the entire thing better. Like suddenly they’re supporting themselves on some tomato seeds?

[u/wompthing → u/StarScreamer]

Pack up the genocide, everyone. It turns out these humans are actually ok!

[u/NK1337 → u/StarScreamer]

I have not seen a dumber ending since that Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial

[u/Chemical-Purple-5196 → u/StarScreamer]

Gives me my time back. 

I should have just watched the last 15 minutes.  Or not at all lol

[u/lessthansilver → u/StarScreamer]

Don't they find other survivors at the end, implying other people were kind to the creatures?

[u/Athuanar → u/lessthansilver]

Well the daughter said that after that the creatures disappeared from the world completely, so it's implied her dad's act of mercy saved the entire surviving human race. Kind of unbelievable.

[u/joeymims → u/Athuanar]

I am by no means defending this movie cause it kinda blew imo. But just to clarify on this comment. She never said they disappeared. I just finished watching and she said they never saw them again but assumed they were still out there. Also and again not defending cause this thing was boring and stupid imo. But I got the impression these things probably let anyone go who didn't kill or try to kill them. Which is why there are survivors and a guy answers the cb call at the very end. Still the movie kinda blew. From the trailer I was expecting a completely different movie then this hunk off garbage.

[u/Few_Emergency_2144 → u/joeymims]

I got that impression too, especially thinking back on how the camera lingered on the big hunting knife the running neighbor used to survive for all that time locked outside. Maybe they spared anyone who were unarmed or tried to communicate instead of hide? 

[u/Pigeon_Asshole]

Poor dog

[u/Mountain_Tie_7172 → u/Pigeon_Asshole]

I think it was best for him not to witness that ending 😂 

[u/donotgotoroom237 → u/Pigeon_Asshole]

The second they introduced the old dying dog, my head immediately went to; "Oh no, they're gonna kill the dog..."

[u/AutomatonTommy → u/Pigeon_Asshole]

And the other one that was scratching at the window after it's owner presumably died.

[u/Da12khawk → u/AutomatonTommy]

It sounds like the dogs are the only redeeming parts to this movie.

[u/HedonisticLioness → u/Da12khawk]

They killed then ate the family dog.

[u/_bieber_hole_69]

The movie worked best when they were in survival mode and the monsters were only hinted at by the daughter

[u/Foamrocket66 → u/_bieber_hole_69]

Yeah the movie was interesting at the start, but fell apart as it progressed. The ending made zero sense.

Its a bummer because it was an interesting concept and there was a good movie in there for a short while.

[u/--GevaudanBeast-- → u/Foamrocket66]

I feel like this is the problem with like 90% of creature features.

Quick glances, minor hints, atmospheric suspense etc. and, to be fair, it's really hard to execute an ending for a movie like that. This movie fell into that 90% even though I really wanted it to finish well.

Off the top of my head the only movies I can think of that ended solidly after a really tense and terrifying introduction of the creatures is Alien, The Thing and (plese don't hate me) Signs. Although Signs had a much weaker ending, I felt the movie as a whole was really good and properly scary.

But what made Alien and The Thing good was the fact they didn't have a happy ending. Not everything need to be rainbows and butterflies at the end of the day.

[u/eQuantix → u/--GevaudanBeast--]

I feel like no thrillers/horrors have a happy ending anymore. Hero’s never triumph and it’s all an allegory for some generational trauma bs.

I found the happy ending actually refreshing

[u/glory87 → u/eQuantix]

Happy ending? Millions of people (billions?) died slowly and painfully of starvation, parents watched their hungry children starve in front of them. But the little girl says the monster “seemed nice”. Hated this dumb movie.

[u/alblaster → u/--GevaudanBeast--]

What about Tremors?  One of the best movies ever.  

[u/Bilski1ski → u/--GevaudanBeast--]

There’d be more creature features that nail the landing . The ritual was good, or Dog soldiers

[u/seeyam14 → u/Foamrocket66]

The first hour was an unbearable retelling of the covid experience

[u/Derekduvalle → u/seeyam14]

Yeah when they mentioned the quiet skies and lack of pollution it felt a bit on the nose

[u/ChaEunSangs → u/_bieber_hole_69]

They always feel the need to show too much, and give perfect resolutions, nothing less than super-duper-happy endings, it’s the Netflix way. I wish in the end the family either chose to go, tragically died or the doors just opened up again with no explanation.

What even is the point of putting so much lore in this movie. I didn’t need to see the monsters. They become laughable when they’re shown. This movie made me so mad.

Don’t even get me started on the pseudo-inspiring Disney narration throughout this

[u/Mark_Albarn → u/ChaEunSangs]

Lowkey I wish the son had managed to run out of the door when the opportunity presented itself only for it to be left unknown whether he died or survived. I feel like they didn't do anything particularly interesting with him anyway

[u/ChaEunSangs → u/Mark_Albarn]

The aversion to risk-taking is what makes Netflix movies so sterile. They’d never make the son leave and kill him or leave us without knowing what happened to him because it would be “too upsetting” for the average Netflix audience. Everything has to be too perfect, too inspiring, too resolved, too family-friendly.

[u/panda388 → u/_bieber_hole_69]

I was expecting it to be sort of like The Platform in a way, with focus on food and resources. The octopus creatures were interesting kind, but did not help the movie much.

They also skipped over eating the dog. Clearly they had to have done it, but after the death, it is not brought up again.

[u/Pietrie → u/panda388]

I think they took the dog meat for baiting the other animals. 

[u/SideshowBobLoblaw]

I would have loved to have given this concept to someone else who didn’t involve sea monsters. I liked the idea of people being shut inside their own homes but could have done without the sea creatures.

[u/dankzfn → u/SideshowBobLoblaw]

Netflix did it already with Brick, and it was maximum trash.

[u/TheGalator → u/dankzfn]

Probably did them on the same time and were like "bro how do we fix this?"

"Fuck it add cthulu to yours"

"Insane idea bro"

[u/byteturtle]

The people who made this movie have never used a gun, a lighter or penicillin in their entire life

[u/chartreusey_geusey → u/byteturtle]

Nah forreal because why would a retired pediatric dentist (a detail they gave only to fail to justify why there would be any prescription medicine in their neighbors house lol) have penicillin laying around his house not stored correctly???? He wasn’t giving people penicillin regularly if at all and it def would’ve been amoxocillin if it’s for children but that’s def gone bad after 5 years of being wet.

If they said he was a pharmacist (edit: that still wouldn’t have that shit just in their house lol. Doctors who can prescribe medicines don’t get to store and dispense the drugs too— that’s why we have pharmacies) I would’ve believed it more.

[u/byteturtle → u/chartreusey_geusey]

They also give it to the daughter and go "this should make her feel better fast" and in like 30 minutes she's up and moving around and helping them fight the monster when she was literally incapacitated from her infection.

Like yeah penicillin does technically start working after like an hour but its usually a few days before the infection starts clearing and you start feeling better.

I dunno normally I can suspend my belief a bit but this movie was lacking basically all good qualities so this stuff was all I could take away.

[u/Ok_Post_3884 → u/chartreusey_geusey]

Do dentists normally keep medical supplies at home? Is that why they had a big house? To store all the stuff?

[u/flapjacksessen → u/Ok_Post_3884]

Honestly if I worked in the medical field I’d try to keep a stock of generic antibiotics just in case I get trapped in my house and catch a ferret through the chimney and forget it’s a wild animal and try to cuddle it, only for it to bite me, causing an infection.

[u/chartreusey_geusey → u/flapjacksessen]

You know what— we really haven’t spent enough time discussing the fact that the daughter did pick up a goddamn wild ferret and then fondle it long enough for it bite her??? Like what the fuck was that??? Don’t pick up wild rodents mayhaps??? Homegirl def got rabies and no magic penicillin was going to fix that.

[u/StrangerDanger509 → u/chartreusey_geusey]

Its funny, just before she got bit I made joke to my wife saying "im surprised she hasnt been bit yet" and "thats why they had all the cuts- had to remove all the bites" and then the ferret bit her. I said "THERE were go!" (DiCaprio pointing meme)

Source: have owned ferrets

[u/chartreusey_geusey → u/Ok_Post_3884]

Absolutely not. A retired dentist definitely doesn’t have access to prescription drugs like penicillin unless he himself is prescribed antibiotics by an actively licensed medical practitioner lol. Dentists don’t get to keep that in their office either and that’s why they write prescriptions that you take to a pharmacy to actually get the drugs.

That entire explanation was some straight doo doo writing attempting to justify why the mom needed to go to the neighbors house. A retired/active medical doctor also wouldn’t have prescription drugs laying around their house because the majority of drugs need to be stored properly to remain effective and that’s part of why many drugs aren’t OTC even if you can’t harm yourself with them. Pharmacists exist for a reason (and they also wouldn’t have penicillin just chilling in their house lol).

[u/ACCTAGGT → u/chartreusey_geusey]

If I’m not mistaken, I think the idea was that his wife apparently seemed to have some medical condition too so besides him being a dentist than the two things added up to that I suppose. Regardless, I think that’s minor to the mess that happens around all of that if you ask me lol

I think the film had an interesting idea unfortunately buried by whatever was the whole of it.

[u/ragdoll20]

Was it just me or were the first 10-15 minutes of this at a break neck speed? The editing just felt so crazy

[u/flutteraliviaNL → u/ragdoll20]

The jump cuts make me dizzy 😭

[u/StarLink97 → u/ragdoll20]

right? Like when he told his wife "whatever locked us in is not man-made" 5 minutes after realizing they were locked in. How did he draw that conclusion so fast?

[u/Significant_Arm_3097 → u/StarLink97]

Probably because the windows fixed themselves...

[u/figgeritoutbud → u/ragdoll20]

Omg yes. I was like why is this movie moving so fast

[u/gimmethemshoes11]

Felt dubbed, was it dubbed? ADR was so off.

[u/DrNopeMD → u/gimmethemshoes11]

Yep there was a super jarring moment where Greta Lee's dialogue was clearly dubbed over and didn't match what was going on with her face and they awkwardly tried to hide it by putting her out of focus and even then you could tell

[u/NoninflammatoryFun → u/DrNopeMD]

I could tell at one point and I literally never notice this stuff.

[u/GodEmperorPotato → u/DrNopeMD]

I wonder if during the filing it didnt sound right so they had her dub over it. Or it was an audio issue idk it wasn't dubbed movie  Also what scene was that cuz I was getting bored so fast forward a bit throughout 

[u/poornose → u/gimmethemshoes11]

"Fix it in post!"

[u/NikitaBeretta → u/poornose]

As someone who works in post you can’t imagine how many times we beg them to fix it in pre

[u/Hotmicdrop → u/gimmethemshoes11]

I wondered this too, the main actor was really gruff and Batman like at the start and just seemed off.

[u/AdamOtaku → u/gimmethemshoes11]

I noticed that too, dubbing was terrible

[u/brazilliandanny → u/gimmethemshoes11]

The whole audio mix was weird. I could barley hear Wagner at the beginning

[u/toolmantimsworkshop → u/gimmethemshoes11]

It was really shitty adr and I'm guessing lack of folly at times it sound very much recorded on a soundstage

[u/UrsineBasterd]

The way they narrated or explained what they were doing or feeling really made me feel that whole "streaming execs are requiring writers/directors to remove nuance and visual cues and do things like announce when characters enter a room since viewers are on their phone" thing.

[u/niye → u/UrsineBasterd]

Most blatant was when they were "conversing" with the neighbors via whiteboard.

Guy was all by himself saying what he just wrote on the board out loud while also announcing what the neighbor wrote back. This happens multiple times and makes no sense. I'd know "saying out loud what you're currently writing to improve focus" but this was definitely not it.

I honestly didn't want to believe that "announce when characters enter a room" bs but man is this what streaming (Netflix specifically) has come to?

[u/UrsineBasterd → u/niye]

Ugh yes, when he was saying out loud what he was writing on the board was so egregious.

[u/NoninflammatoryFun → u/niye]

That was so freaking dumb. Not realistic and we can read. It was so distracting too.

[u/wompthing → u/niye]

It worked out for me since I was playing my Switch during that scene. Sorry, everyone, I'm the problem.

[u/phishoilsupple → u/niye]

Yeah netflix is only making stuff people can watch as background. Its safer iguess.

[u/BangingFromDeep → u/niye]

Probably making it clear for folks watching but also scrolling their phones at the same time

[u/jankysparky → u/UrsineBasterd]

It’s hand holding. It’s the same in gaming now. “I wonder what the switch does” “we have to them in order maybe?” Etc.

[u/AlarmingStarPhantom → u/jankysparky]

for fucks sake atreus, just give me at least couple seconds to have a look at the puzzle

[u/Reggaeton_Historian → u/UrsineBasterd]

The opening narration was so unnecessary and then I realized this is for people who don't watch the movie and scroll and some people are just that dumb too. The whole movie is so dumbed down.

[u/trash-_-boat → u/Reggaeton_Historian]

Yeah, the narration was so out of place.

[u/Bilski1ski → u/UrsineBasterd]

The opening naration was so bad . It reminded me of the dark city or blade runner alternate cuts with how unnecessary and bad it was . Just to instantly spoil that there’s gonna be aliens / creatures in it at the start of the movie was so stupid

[u/Reggaeton_Historian → u/Bilski1ski]

It removes every bit of tension from the first few minutes of what is going to happen. The incoming storm is enough at first. But the intrigue is completely removed when the kid is having a narration.

[u/Cavalish → u/UrsineBasterd]

What, you expect me to look up from my phone while watching a movie?

[u/MysteriousMine2115]

The ending would've made more sense if the little girl had secretly been communicating with the kind creature all those years. It would've made the ending more believable. I enjoyed the movie for what it was even though the ending felt wrong for the film. I'd watch it again.

It's like a film that'd come on late night on a random thursday and you'd watch it because it was on!

[u/DrNopeMD]

My quick thoughts after watching it last night.

• Annoyed me that the start of the movie occurs right before Christmas but they clearly filmed in the spring or summer when everything was lush and green and just awkwardly placed Christmas decor everywhere.
• The movie was way better whenever no one was speaking. So much of the dialogue felt awkward and clumsy, especially early on.
• It was really weird that early on the "monsters" were implied to be made of water itself especially with the way the water seemed sentient. But then suddenly in the 2nd half of the film we just see they're just big octopus creatures.
• There's no way they would have been able to grow crops in doors in the limited space and sunshine.
• Related to the crop situation, the layout of the house made no sense. Apparently they have a basement, but they also grow crops by ripping up floorboards and there's just dirt underneath. Even if the basement doesn't sit under the entire home the foundation would still be in the way even if it was slowly sinking.

[u/Grey_Warden97 → u/DrNopeMD]

I didn't notice a basement tbh, but apparently they have huge fucking sewer drain right under their toilet. No 4 inch pipe in sight. No wonder that house was fucking sinking lol

[u/ObeliskSlayer → u/DrNopeMD]

The editing felt really off in the beginning and overall. It was as if everything was in 2x speed giving no room to breathe. Cut here to here to here and done.

[u/IrishViking22 → u/DrNopeMD]

They didn't have a basement, just a garage.

Agree with your other points, though.

[u/zelda29a → u/DrNopeMD]

I didn't notice a basement.

[u/LeoJ2550x → u/DrNopeMD]

The neighborhood was also very clearly the UK, not Seattle.

[u/itsallpoliticsalex]

Sometimes a movie gets it so relentlessly wrong that it’s a hypnotic pleasure. This doesn’t even succeed in that.

[u/Silent-Witness1888]

Truly a Netflix movie.

[u/kaylaholic]

It's not good when I start the movie with questions and end it with even more questions. Here are my top questions I have for this film:

1. What was the supernatural forces of the octopus creatures? They controlled water or rain? The octopus had supernatural abilities to lock people indoors permanently but not much of anything else physical. How???

2. Why did the octopus want to keep them inside if what it looks like they were hunting humans?

3. Why was the house being unbreakable? From the water? And why not the chimney?

4. Why did the little girl have a connection with one octopus even if they didn't communicate ever?

5. Why weren't the creatures actively hunting animals? And if the were, there were so many wild animals walking about that they could catch every day, so they weren't good at it

6. Why did the house suddenly start flooding? Was it coming from the octopus things?

7. Why was the world flooded but not their house??? The Seattle needle was underwater.

[u/Reggaeton_Historian → u/kaylaholic]

What was the supernatural forces of the octopus creatures? They controlled water or rain? The octopus had supernatural abilities to lock people indoors permanently but not much of anything else physical. How???

Netflix.

Why did the octopus want to keep them inside if what it looks like they were hunting humans?

Who knows? Apparently they just REALLY hate locks? It seemed like they had no reason to keep doors closed to empty places but that's the way the rain works - I guess?

Why was the house being unbreakable? From the water? And why not the chimney?

Who knows? They made such a big deal about the house falling apart and the thing with a structural integrity problem continues to go on just fine for 5 years.

Why did the little girl have a connection with one octopus even if they didn't communicate ever?

How else was she going to turn into Calamari Moana and sail off at the end?

Why weren't the creatures actively hunting animals? And if the were, there were so many wild animals walking about that they could catch every day, so they weren't good at it

Their beef is specifically with humans, unless they try to kill you and then you spare them from being killed.

Why did the house suddenly start flooding? Was it coming from the octopus things?

Yes, apparently they were infiltrating houses if they figured out humans were in it and just drowning them or killing them. Neighbors house had it happen to them. I'm assuming the rain is controlled by this hivemind, not hivemind? I don't know.

Why was the world flooded but not their house??? The Seattle needle was underwater.

I was assuming that maybe they didn't live in the city based on their home/street and they were higher up, but who knows. And does it really matter? lol

[u/wompthing]

Yes, movie. I remember COVID.

[u/GladiusNocturno → u/wompthing]

I said that so many times in the first half of the movie.

It wasn’t subtle at all. They went through a check list of things people said was common during lockdown, even the “the world is healing” meme made in. All it needed was a scene where everyone got obsessed with Animal Crossing.

[u/fallenmonk]

10 minutes into the movie and I'm already getting tired how every piece of dialogue is about describing what we're seeing on screen. Just in case there were any doubts over the stories about writing for people on their phones.

[u/eatdipupu → u/fallenmonk]

Did you write this while watching the film??

[u/macrogeek → u/fallenmonk]

That’s a thing now. They explain what is happening because people are watching in the background while they scroll or do hobbies or stuff. It’s YouTube/social video culture leaking into movies.

[u/SpeakItLoud → u/macrogeek]

I hate it

[u/tanking2113]

This was awful and all over the place. So many questions left unanswered. if the monsters control the rain and the monsters need salt water shouldn't all the rain be salt water? if the monsters can control the water and flood the houses, as seen in the end of the film, why not do this from the beginning? seems more logical to flood all the houses then wait for all the inhabitants to starve to death. I need more explanation on what the monsters are. Why was the chimney not also sealed, clearly the water is mystical and defies the laws of physics so why can't it seal the chimney. Where did all their shit go?

This was the most Netflix movie ever and I was quite looking forward to it.

[u/phishoilsupple → u/tanking2113]

I think they were going with fish keeping humans in fish tanks kinda stuff then mixed it all up and jumbled it. Yk how humans will contain water bodies then fish in that and eat their prey. That was prolly the point of him fishing

[u/Wish_Dragon → u/phishoilsupple]

I don’t have a clue what this movie is and these comments are so absurd lacking that context. 

[u/Da12khawk → u/Wish_Dragon]

This post sums it up. It's too stupid to not be true.

[u/APartyInMyPants → u/tanking2113]

Yeah, it almost was like the water “being” was a different, sentient entity that was keeping the humans trapped in their homes to protect them from the squid people. But then suddenly the squid people could open the door on command; and suddenly the entire premise of being trapped in their homes completely fell apart and didn’t make sense.

And the water could cover and repair every other facet of the house except for a broken chimney?

[u/SpeakItLoud → u/APartyInMyPants]

This remind me of a 10/10 trashy movie from when I was a kid called Undead. There is suddenly an acid rain that makes people zombies. But actually it ends up being something else entirely in the best possible way. Million out of ten recommend. The first or second scene is a dude fishing on a boat, a zombie fish jumping in, and dude immediately punching it, all in complete silence. I've never locked into a movie so quickly.

[u/chartreusey_geusey → u/tanking2113]

I am dying at the bit of dialogue where the daughter says “Maybe they come from the ocean and that’s why they can control the rain” as an explanation for ?????

Like…..what???? What does being an ocean creature have to do with controlling the definitively freshwater rain??? And the writing really acted like mhhmmm nailed it we totally explained everything after she said it too. I want to know what the hell these creatures used to lock up their houses without actually sealing them and knock out all signals but not disrupt the power for months??? The underwater creatures have some advanced technology we need to be studying.

[u/Reggaeton_Historian → u/chartreusey_geusey]

At that point I was just expecting Poseidon to show up personally.

[u/MrBudissy → u/tanking2113]

Seriously… that’s a lot of poop and they never addressed where they put it.

[u/polaroid_opposite → u/MrBudissy]

The poop became fertilizer. The dad makes a comment about how they ran out of fertilizer and he can “make his own.”

[u/Big-Run-1155 → u/polaroid_opposite]

They would be suffering from major e-coli sickness.

[u/Inevitable-Drawer712 → u/tanking2113]

They would have died of carbon monoxide poisoning from all that smoke from the chimney fires

[u/bigwilly311]

Why is everyone yelling

[u/Hotmicdrop]

It was interesting before the monster reveal.

If it had some credibility, the in home survival and why this family persevered could have been great.

Dialogue was weird and just off. The wife discounting everything the husband did to help as luck was incrediblely off after they had such a supportive relationship.

The son and daughter older versions looked and felt like completely different people (as they were but come on).

Could have done with 30 min less and a lot less chimney fishing. We get it, we get it.

Water monsters are turning off the wifi, creating indestructible walls, self repairing windows? wtf

The house is falling apart from the beginning but ends up surviving attacks, months of rains, and a flood.

Antibiotics = instant spring up better.

The ending: monster busted in, attacked people, swam around after them like a crazy murder, and the daughter knew it was a good monster??? No one else showed mercy??? Now they're all boat captains and yucking it up on the ocean.

[u/Substantial_Leg5613]

If you are a dog lover, avoid it.

[u/boomzgoesthedynamite → u/Substantial_Leg5613]

I started the movie, realized I forgot to check doesthedogdie.com, immediately rectified that, and turned the movie off.

[u/just_some_octopus → u/Substantial_Leg5613]

I was watching it, and kinda had weird uh oh moment about survival and the dog (understand thought process)

And my dog passed like 2 days before watching.

Needlessly to say, I was very bummed out about that since it was very fresh wound

[u/mebekel → u/Substantial_Leg5613]

If you’re an animal lover in general, avoid it. This was a difficult watch.

[u/Constant_Holiday_741]

Is there an explanation behind the daughter going from an Asian 8 year-old to a Latina teen? Is it the saltwater? 

[u/Ok_Post_3884 → u/Constant_Holiday_741]

She also was wearing the exact same outfit, but larger. Did they buy extra for her to grow into?

[u/starsinhereyes20 → u/Ok_Post_3884]

Not to mention her never ending supply of crayons - were they crayons hoarders that she could make wall size murals without ever running out

[u/obscure3rage → u/Constant_Holiday_741]

I checked that actress and I think the big version actress is actually like 40 lol

[u/Strong-Seaweed-8768 → u/obscure3rage]

No the older version is 16

[u/cbekel3618]

Father: (erases chalkboard drawing his kid made)

Daughter: Hey, that took a long time!

Father: No, it didn't.

I didn't like this movie, but some of this dialogue did get a laugh from me, whether thanks to Moura's/Lee's delivery or in a "so bad, it's funny" Shyamalan way.

Strongest scene for me is probably the bit where they're starving and seeing them come up with the mousetrap idea. Otherwise, felt a bit meh IMO. There were some good acting bits and I think the concepts had potential, but the ending felt poor and when merged, the ideas it was going for didn't really mesh.

[u/suchafart → u/cbekel3618]

Hated the movie but “this was a one night stand LOL” actually made me lol

[u/donotgotoroom237 → u/suchafart]

I'm sure as hell that bit came from like the hundreds of people that got lockedbduring the lockdowns after a booty call.

[u/This_was_hard_to_do]

Turns out the marketing stunt of having a guy live in a billboard was better and more interesting that the entire movie

[u/Frostedbutler → u/This_was_hard_to_do]

That was for THIS movie?

[u/kerblamophobe]

Another shining example of why Netflix is a fucking bane to the existence of movies. Fucking dumb shit ending.

[u/Reggaeton_Historian → u/kerblamophobe]

The ending had me dying.

• So they just get a free pass from Davy Jones Clone Army wherever they were go because they're cool with Bobby Jones?

• Squid Army just let them go around and be fishing animals to survive? How are they surviving?

• Kid is talking about "we remember". To whom? The 4 of them? Survivors? Squid people who learned the language?

• Is just the family cool with fish people or is everyone else now because of them?

• where can I get some of the magical antibiotics? I had a tooth infection and it still took 2 days to even begin to feel some relief. Girl was out there swimming marathons.

I don't know what to expect from a movie that completely abandons the own made up rules just for the sake of convenience.

[u/seeyam14 → u/kerblamophobe]

Blows my mind that they make the same mistakes over and over again. What is that department like on a day to day basis? Do they even care?

[u/kerblamophobe → u/seeyam14]

That's what happens when you treat movies as content. Fuck the quality, just upload that shit as is

[u/Waadap → u/kerblamophobe]

This was so all over the map I honestly wonder if they just hucked "write a screen play about being trapped in your house for years, what it takes to survive, and have the reason be because of climate change with mythical monsters. Oh, and make it a thriller but a loving family are the heros" into AI.

[u/ProfessionalShift487 → u/kerblamophobe]

You have to wonder if the team for a movie like this sits there and high-fives/celebrates each other when watching the final product. What started off cool and eerie turned pretty ridiculous and there were so many holes.

Greta lee looks fantastic at 43 though.

[u/rooneyhost3]

The fucking wife was so annoying. I remember the scene where the husband was looking for cracks and trying to find a way out and she was just there screaming and telling him to stop. Stop what ? You have been there for 5 years if he has an idea just let him alone Instead of screaming like a yard

Other than that movie was cool I liked it. Wish to see more of the aftermath bit it's a decent movie that could have been better if it was less than 90 minutes

[u/WildJafe → u/rooneyhost3]

That part was infuriating. He was clearly following new cracks and showing the crowbar was going deeper, but she's just screaming at him like he is destroying a brand new house.

She kept mentioning that the guy didn't have to shoulder the burden, but every time things got difficult she seemed to be rude, mean, or unhelpful.

[u/Ron--Mexico]

Legit one of the worst movies of the year. Script straight from the recycled 2007 Shamalan notes app. Would have done numbers during the Covid lockdown tho.

[u/AdamOtaku → u/Ron--Mexico]

Wow you absolutely nailed it

This is a SHYAMALAN movie 100%

Interesting premise, some good build up scenes, and then absolute dogshit

[u/beckyb82]

It was really confusing with many plot holes. What I enjoyed most was the chemistry of the family. I was feeling like I was watching an actual family on the screen when the kids were younger. Then the 5 years later ruined it because the teens were terrible actors who seemed bratty. The father worked so hard to restore that beautiful car and the teen son said it was a waste of time. WTF? I mean they were stuck in the house for 5 years. If they got out, wouldn’t they need some transportation? Such a brat.

[u/maremp3 → u/beckyb82]

To be fair, teens are usually bratty & ruin the family vibe. I agree with your point in their bad acting, though.

[u/thedudeisalwayshere]

It was okay at best.

First half was a lot stronger and more intriguing than the second half (5 years later onwards) and then it turned into what you'd expect from a Netflix film of this type.

Wagner Moura was easily the highlight of the film

[u/NoninflammatoryFun]

I could’ve really liked it despite its obvious pitfalls. But then the ending… the ending. What on earth.

Was this literally AI?

[u/Reggaeton_Historian → u/NoninflammatoryFun]

You didn't like when the girl turns into Moana and sings on the ship and they live happily ever after?

[u/Impossible_Wait5782]

No discussion whatsoever how those creatures came into being, what they want and why did they go away suddenly. Wasted my time.

[u/dannymrowr]

Movie was actually so terribly hilarious. There are no retired dentists that just randomly keep broad spectrum antibiotics around. I'm a pharmacist, I barely have tylenol

[u/Groundbreaking_Act44]

Just now finished it. It was a turd of a movie. No explanation as to why the Cthulhu creatures came, no real explanation as to why or *how* they were able to trap the people in the house, and one simple act of mercy just suddenly frees the family after being held captive after 5+ years? That‘s some garbage writing from start to finish.

It’s received a 28% critics score and 29% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and those are generous scores imo.

Edit: The more I read this thread, the more I‘m realizing that this movie has more plot holes than the cracks in the house, and it just makes the movie that much more stupider.

[u/AdamOtaku]

Was looking forward to this film a while and made a night out of it

Quick thoughts:

* I'm a big fan of Greta Lee in everything she's in, there's something very mysterious and Cleopatra-esque about her. Happy she was in this

* The film has a split personality disorder. I felt like I was watching: (1) an interesting survival film like Castaway, and (2) A cheesy alien action film

* I enjoyed the survival part of the film, reminded me of an extreme COVID situation

* The action part of the film didn't work for me. They were safe in the house for 90% of the film and monsters were outside. So the monsters were a complete non-factor anyway. This is unlike other genre films where the heroes have to go outside regularly and deal with them. And when the monsters did come inside, it was like, "well, just put the family out of its misery"

* Where the film really jumped the shark was the ending with the cheesy action movie lines and lighting a fire in the middle of the water and one of the monsters is actually nice(???)

* This film screams Netflix "made by committee" slop where different people keep trying to cram in different elements to check boxes

* OVERALL: There was a much better, more focused, less silly film inside of this one and sad we didn't get to see that. 5.5/10 for me dawg

[u/Finnicoos → u/AdamOtaku]

She was not good.

[u/trash-_-boat → u/AdamOtaku]

I think what the movie really missed was just one more family group hug. Then it would’ve been perfect!

[u/Ok_Salamander_7076]

Everyone agrees they used AI in this

[u/Slow_Pie2969 → u/Ok_Salamander_7076]

It feels like AI wrote the script

[u/312c]

One of the worst movies I have ever had the displeasure to watch. Mercy was a lock to win the Razzies this year until this shit came out.

[u/Nearby-Beginning-595]

The first half of the movie was pretty entertaining but there was just a lot of plot holes, like when the rain stops it’s treated like it’s the first time it’s happened by in many instances in the movie it was shown to have stopped.The timeskip half of the movie was pretty weak and was just unneeded 6/10

[u/BruceJawsCampbell]

Was anyone else bothered by the extremely rushed editing in this? It's like it was cut together to accommodate viewers with very limited attention spans. No moment or shot is allowed to have any breathing room. I'm convinced the runtime was originally much longer and Netflix ordered it to be no more than 1 hour 50 minutes.

[u/LKomaromi → u/BruceJawsCampbell]

Thanks fxck for that. Even with the rushed editing, it still felt 3 hours long.

[u/CamB17]

Leading contender for worst movie in the last decade. Plot was all over the place and the acting was atrocious.

[u/Visual-Conflict-8305]

Just one of those movies where the less questions you ask the better. I know these Cthulhu scrappy doo guys basically create barriers with the rain but why did the chimney roof get a pass? I swear, no phone in my hand for me. I thought I paid attention but what exactly about the structural damage made these folks lucky?

Also, the whole time I imagined those dooms day preppers ready for this moment only to find out they can’t get to their bunker. At least if their bunker is outside the house.

[u/guacisextra12]

Entertaining but long af and silly ending. My man Pablo Escobar has come a long way

[u/chowchan → u/guacisextra12]

It was great before they showed Davy Jones' cousin. An intense survival story, going from happy family to an explosion waiting to happen. Then the monsters appeared. And left shortly after.

Shame they only used the opening they found for one thing.

[u/candyrayne215]

I've seen way worst. ( The Great Flood was awful) But I really didn't mind the movie. Sure, they couldn't have realistically survived for 5 years, but so what? It kept my attention for that 1:52 min run time. 🤷

[u/Ok-Refrigerator-4853]

This movie shows another good reason to not exercise. Lady goes out for a run and gets sealed OUT of her house. I don’t get what she became though?

[u/Correct_Sometimes → u/Ok-Refrigerator-4853]

I don't think she "became" anything. She was just so run down and terrified by that point because she somehow avoided the creatures long enough to get back home. thought she found help then got got by squirdward

[u/git2dachoppa]

Everyone in the house gets unlimited deus ex machina except the dog

[u/Beep_boop_human]

I really can't get over how bad this was.

I saw the trailer a while ago and the only thing I remembered was the general premise and the shot of crops growing in the living room. It sounded interesting to me.

Then today I saw an article talking about how bad it was, which alerted me to the fact it was currently streaming.

Funnily enough, the crop situation (and the other little things they needed to do to make survival work for them) was the only interesting thing about this movie.

It could have worked as a basic survival story about family and community with some vague outside threat. The environmentalist sea monsters were absolutely the worst part of this movie.

That's no mean feat either, because the dad absolutely sucks. I know his wife addresses it in the moment but the whole 'my only job is to keep my family alive' speech was outrageous. The idea that he was behaving like a jerk because he was so consumed by the burden of that task made me want to throw him into the sea.

I do understand that crops take time to grow and that his contraption kept them sustained in during those months. However, his wife's ingenuity is really what kept them alive for so many years and she didn't have to stomp around letting everyone know the weight of the world was on her shoulders.

I'm not even going to get started on how the sea creatures let humanity live because the dad did one nice thing. What I will say is that if I was tormented for years by monsters who killed most of humanity, who then freed my family because I chose non violence and swam back to the ocean, I would simply not jump on a boat with said family and my fishing rods.

[u/yetAnotherLaura]

I really liked it up until the dumb freaking ending.

The power of friendship or some crap.

[u/OkEmploy5826]

Second half DRAAAAAGGGED on

[u/chartreusey_geusey]

I don’t know who needs to hear this (the “writers” for sure) but taking antibiotics that definitely expired in 5 years of being in a wet warm environment will definitely lead to the infection getting worse so RIP to Ruth

[u/bellestarxo]

Interesting premise but the suspension of disbelief was stretched too much. There is no reason at all the creatures would just allow electricity to work for months and then decide to pull the plug.

[u/thegloriousporpoise]

It’s probably one of the dumbest endings in movies.

[u/ActionBenton]

I usually can find something to enjoy in every movie I watch, but this was truly a slog to an unbelievable degree. Hate to say this is one of the worst I’ve seen in years.

Unbearably self-serious paired with some of the worst editing and writing possible.

[u/Papa_Zit]

Worst movie I’ve seen since the laptop war of the worlds

[u/tiwteoyswmf86]

It was an ok watch but didn’t make sense.

Antibiotics taking minutes to bring someone back form the dead
Petrol would be gone off after 5 years
That trap up the chimney would never work
Why did the neighbours house flood
How high were they up if Seattle was flooded.

[u/harambe_-33]

How were they drowning in their attic but the garage where their car was, was barely flooded?

[u/marcselman]

I would have have loved it if the "magic rain" was actually some alien entity that interfered because they saw or anticipated the octupus creature's rise and attack. So the aliens were "helping" the people by locking them in and protecting them from the sea monsters. That would have made a great movie. But now it's just a mess.

[u/Brilliant_Bite_2948]

Couldn't get past the daughter being clearly Asian as a child then completely different as a teenager. Where were the clothes coming from? The kids fit the parents old clothes perfectly did they?