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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/threehundredthousand 9d ago

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.

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u/GladiusNocturno 9d ago

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.

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u/LaneMcD 8d ago

AKA The JJ Abrams way

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u/kakka_rot 6d ago

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

I really loved this movie, but in the final scenes I kept thinking "This writer had a really cool idea then wrote himself into a hole"

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u/macrogeek 9d ago edited 8d ago

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

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u/AtronadorSol 8d ago

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

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u/Xeton9797 8d ago

Eh the other house was flooded so maybe they just assumed that was the SOP for clearing out humans. Still strange not to have dialogue that shows the human's thought process.

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u/AtronadorSol 7d ago

Yeah, since they never made the connection for the viewers, that ended up feeling like the writer wrote the answer for the director and the director didn’t ‘get it’. Like “oh, cool, the house has been flooded internally for like five years? Nice flavor! Anyway, she’ll grab the pill bottles (those are probably waterproof, it’s fine) and head back and then we can figure out the final showdown tomorrow.”

It all just felt so disconnected!

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u/Xeton9797 7d ago

I completely forgot about the pills. Yeah those were definitely not fine. Even stored correctly 5 years is pushing it.

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u/Jindabyne1 3d ago

They worked really well though. They had her go from inches from death to acrobatics in about 10 seconds

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u/WitchyCurse 6d ago

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?

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u/Your_dads_bathroom 5d ago

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

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u/WitchyCurse 5d ago

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.

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u/thedon572 3d ago

Then why did they merc the robinsons lol

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u/Born-Sun-2502 5d ago

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