2026 The Last House

• Directed by: Louis Leterrier
• Written by: Matthew Robinson
• Stars: Greta Lee, Wagner Moura, Riley Chung
• Run Time: 1 Hour, 52 Minutes
• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCerkuwxtQI

Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone

A family of four is sealed in their house, along with everyone else in their houses, apparently, and we get to watch them survive with the resources that they have on hand.

After seeing a lot of bad reviews and online hate for this movie, we were bracing ourselves for the worst. We were pleasantly surprised, and we both liked it. It’s got a lot of questionable points and unexplained things, but we were entertained.

Spoilery Synopsis

“Everyone remembers where they were when the rain came,” we are told. Everyone looks up at the weird-looking storm, as the voiceover gets pretty ominous. Credits roll.

Jason comes home from bad fishing, and he’s brought donuts to his wife Ann, and two kids, Ruth and Graham. The garage door and the electronic front door won’t open, and the kids are super whiny, and everyone talks over each other, so it’s gonna be bad. It must be a prank, right? The Internet is down, as are the cellphones. Even the glass in the window won’t break– it reforms and “heals” itself.

The neighbors across the street signal with a mirror that they can’t get out either. A jogger runs by, and they get her attention to go for help. They all wonder about conspiracy theories. Ruth thinks the rain did this. “The rain looked different today.”

Jason shows Ann his gun, and she freaks out. Night falls, and the rain continues. Jason tries to drill through the door, but the holes re-seal themselves. The rain is making some kind of barrier around the house, even underneath it.

No Internet. They dig out old DVDs and records to entertain the kids. They have power and water, but food is going to be limited. The dog, on the other hand, has to poop, so that’s a problem. Jason teaches the kids how to gut a fish, but they don’t have any fish.

After a week, some of the neighbors run out of food. After the second week, they’ve all adjusted to the new normal. After a month, Ruth notices something walking around outside in the rain, but no one believes her. Ann saves the seeds from their vegetables and starts growing more. Another month, and neighbors are dying, and they’re out of dog food.

One night, a crazy person with a knife beats on the doors and windows. “They’re dead! Everyone is dead!” Is that jogger from a long time ago, and she’s clearly gone insane. The rain itself tears her away from the window and drags her away. They all believe Ruth’s stories about rain-people now. It’s time to start covering up the windows.

The crappy old house is falling apart, especially the cracks in the chimney and foundation. Could they get out through the chimney? They hoist Ruth up through the chimney and she gets her hand through, but the hole is too small to get out completely.

The dog runs out of medicine and dies. What to do with the body? The fireplace… or the freezer? There are now big tentacle-monsters outside when it rains.

Three months, and all the food is gone. There’s a wild dog outside that keeps coming around, and Jason builds a trap that he sends out through the chimney to catch it. It takes a few attempts, but he eventually catches a squirrel. “Chimney fishing,” they all joke. They also expand the garden by pulling up the floor. Eventually, the power goes out.

Five years later, most of the house is garden. The kids have gotten much bigger. There are bears living in the street outside. The house is still sinking, and the cracks are getting worse. The monsters keep coming to the door, and they always hide from them. The monsters can open the door and come inside, but the people can’t open them. Something calls the monster away.

After the rain stops, the door still won’t open. The monster left a puddle of seawater behind, so Ruth figures the creatures are from our oceans, not outer space. It also kills most of their garden with the salt water. It poisons their soil and drinking water.

Ruth gets bitten by a weasel and gets infected. Jason figures out a way to dig down into the sewer pipes, and Ann volunteers to crawl through to the neighbor’s house to get antibiotics (Why would a retired dentist have antibiotics in their home that would have expired years ago?).

Ann makes it to the neighbors house and gets the drugs, but it starts to rain, and the monsters come out. It’s a chase through the sewer, but she escapes the tentacle-monster. The drugs heal Ruth just fine.

Jason tells Ann and the kids to hide in the attic, since the creature is going to come for them now; he’ll distract them. No, Ann and Graham want to run outside when the creature opens the door next time. Jason wants to go all “Home Alone” and just lure the creatures inside to a bunch of traps he’s made.

The creatures, on the other hand, have their own plan. They flood the house with water, filling it up entirely. There’s a crazy battle as the family makes their way up to the attic. The garage floor gives way and drains most of the house’s flooding. They finally get the best of the creature, trapping it alive. Jason remembers that Ruth thought it was friendly and doesn’t kill it. It opens the door for them and lets them all outside.

Outside, they are soon surrounded by other creatures, but the one they spared comes out and tells the others to leave them alone. Suddenly, the whole house collapses and falls down into a pit.

For some reason, the rain stops and the monsters all go away. The family takes a fishing boat and sails away since it’s “Waterworld” by this point.

Brian’s Commentary

I’m skeptical that there’s enough space in that house to garden food enough for four people.

I’ve read some really terrible reviews of this one, but I kinda liked it. It’s not really explained, and it probably doesn’t make a lot of sense if you think about any of it, but who wouldn’t want to be trapped inside their house for five years?

It’s not as bad as you may have heard.

Kevin’s Commentary

The Internet and cell service went out but electricity, gas, and water kept working just fine for longer than they should have if they were unattended. But that’s just one of the many unexplained issues and loose ends.

By the time they made their move to get out of the house, if the phenomenon was worldwide, it doesn’t seem like there would be a whole lot of other survivors left.

Basically my interpretation is that it was a race of ocean dwelling creatures with control over water, such as the creatures in “The Abyss,” that got fed up with the human race.

With as much online hate as I’ve seen for this movie, I was expecting to hate it myself. I did not. So much is unexplained and things best not to question too deeply. But I was entertained.

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