Netflix’s latest thriller asks a familiar question: What if you and your family were stuck in your own home for weeks, months, even years on end? It’s something the entire world has already answered with a lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — but in Louis Leterrier’s The Last House, the circumstances forcing the global populace to shelter in place are far more sinister, maybe even supernatural.
Wagner Moura and Greta Lee star as a husband and wife forced to keep their family alive when they realize they’re sealed within their home. Though it’s not just their house: the entire neighborhood, and maybe the whole world, is physically unable to step outside. There are no essential workers making deliveries, no hope of escape through the windows (which seem to magically reseal themselves when broken). As those weeks turn to years, the family is forced to grow their own food. There seems to be no escape — though once a supernatural threat starts skulking outside their house, the four walls of their home might be the safest place in the world.
