The next movie to find the horror in suburban living is The Last House on Netflix.

After bringing you news about The End of Oak Street, a movie that drops a suburban neighborhood into the distant, dinosaur-ridden past, now we have a movie about a family who suddenly finds that they can’t leave their home.

In the trailer for The Last House, Ann (Greta Lee, Past Lives), Jason (Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent) and their two kids Ruth and Graham find that their doors are jammed. They can’t open the windows. They can’t even break the glass in the panes because as soon as it splinters, the glass repairs itself. They are well and truly stuck.

They are confused and alarmed, but as the days progress, they come to accept their new house-bound state, even as they realize they aren’t the only ones stuck. They manage to communicate with their neighbor across the street via a message written on posterboard that the entire world is now confined to home. (The Covid pandemic really inspired a lot of screenwriters, obviously.)

But they carry on, even enjoying the break from work and school. As Jason says, “we are safe. We are in our home. But most importantly, we have each other.”

By day 15, they start to suspect there’s something out there, something that makes creaky, creepy noises, that may be holding them prisoner. By day 38, their provisions are running out (kudos to them for making it that long) so they start tearing up the floorboards in their dining room to make a DIY indoor garden.

“This is going to end one day,” Jason prognosticates.

Cut to DAY 1,183, a title-card/jump scare that dissolves into scenes showing the neighborhood’s well-manicured laws have been reclaimed by nature. The houses are overrun with vegetation and bears amble down the lane, unhindered by human pests. Jason, Ann and the kids are surviving if not thriving in their new normal.

But that’s when the trailer gets really scary. A massive storm hits, something appears to be hovering in the clouds overhead, and suddenly their claustrophobic but safe home doesn’t seem like much of a haven against the outside world anymore.

The Last House was directed by Louis Leterrier, who also helmed the first two Transporter films, The Incredible Hulk (2008), Now You See Me, and Fast X. Matthew Robinson (Love and Monsters, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die) wrote the script, and Noah Alexander Sosnowski, Gabriel Barbosa, Riley Chung and Emma Ho play the children at various ages.

Netflix quoted Leterrier in their press release as saying The Last House was about survival. “Growing up, my favorite things to watch and read were survivalist stories with a twist. So I was immediately drawn to this story. I love the questions this movie asks about our world and how we choose to live in it. And I was excited about the possibility of asking these questions in a new and entertaining way.”

The Last House puts out the welcome mat beginning August 7th on Netflix.