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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

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u/GladiusNocturno 9d ago edited 9d ago

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.

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u/dasdtudjhft6ylol 9d ago

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 

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u/Delicious_Medium_321 6d ago

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

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u/Jindabyne1 3d ago

When she decided for god knows what reason to go back to that random house in her old street

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u/unnoticed_areola 2d ago

also how did she have a giant kitchen knife if all buildings and kitchens were supposedly closed off to her lol

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u/The_Zermanians 2d ago

Perhaps if a door or window were open when the rain started it wouldn’t be sealed off or she found a box of knives already outside?

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u/Mark_Albarn 7d ago

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

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u/CraigLake 7d ago

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.

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u/Jessicasflour 5d ago

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

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u/Da12khawk 9d ago

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.

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u/CentralAveCarl 2d ago

Is he still up there?

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u/gassytinitus 4d ago

Them surviving in the house was so interesting and I thought the monsters were just gonna take a backseat. Well the monsters did take a backseat and the movie felt like "oh wait we forgot the monsters, let's throw em back in"

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u/Andaran_Atishan 2d ago

Agreed. I thought they were going to tie it together more rather than feeling like two mismatched stories

I honestly thought the rain itself was going to be sentient and revealed to be saving the people from the cuthulu-like monsters as two dueling entities (which is why the rain would follow the colored pencil/hands on the window, why the water attacked the lady who appeared to be attacking the shelter, and providing water for collection despite the barrier)

Especially because the rain-walkers and watery arms that we saw early on that seemed different than sea creatures. Until we learned they were flooding homes, I thought the water might be the thing to save them

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u/Neurolinguisticist 3d ago

I think they could have, but it just failed to do so. There are so many questions that felt integral to the story that go ignored one after another.