The Last House

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Rating: C+

THE LAST HOUSE is a film of two very different halves — a sluggish, oddly toneless first hour that squanders a genuinely intriguing premise, followed by a back stretch that finally locates the tension and craft the setup always promised, only to rush its way to an ending more interested in sequel-baiting than resolution. Greta Lee and Wagner Moura are doing real work here, and the fully built, physically degrading h...

This movie changes from a psychological drama about isolation to a full-on survivor horror movie and to then pivot into a near cosmic horror story at the very end. It is an interesting transition and one that not many movies could pull off. This one does it because you are invested in the characters and they are so well acted and so well directed that the premise actualizes them rather than diminish them. The adversarial conditions that the characters are placed in are positioned in the story very well and are given enough good effects so that they become quite terrifying. It is not a movie fo...

At first glance, Leterrier seems to have made a belated pandemic thriller, where the home becomes a prison and isolation feels more terrifying than any alien invader. But dig a little deeper, and the film reveals itself as a story about an inner void that gradually crystallizes amid the constant noise of the information age. News comes and goes, morning headlines are replaced by fresh sensations before nightfall, and we barely notice as the world quietly turns upside down. What begins as a forced digital detox unexpectedly becomes an invitation to rediscover life’s simplest pleasures: playin...