SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “The Last House,” out now on Netflix.
“The Last House” is a new sci-fi feature that just dropped on Netflix that’s built around a central mystery: What if you and all of your neighbors were locked inside your houses with no option for escape and had no idea why?
That’s what Ann (Greta Lee) and Jason (Wagner Moura), along with their two kids, Graham and Ruth (Noah Alexander Sosnowski and Riley Chung), face in this new dystopian tale from screenwriter Matthew Robinson and veteran blockbuster director Louis Leterrier (“Fast X,” “The Incredible Hulk”).
The film starts on an unexpectedly rainy day, when the family realizes they’re sealed into their house with no way of opening or smashing through the doors or windows. Any attempt is thwarted by a seal seemingly made of rainwater.
Thanks to a well-stocked pantry, the family is able to survive handily as weeks crawl by. Christmas comes and goes, and at points the crew is happy to live the simple life together. But things grow more tense, especially as neighbors that are also sealed in struggle to survive.
