The Last House locks Netflix August 7 — Greta Lee & Wagner Moura trapped in Louis Leterrier’s sci-fi siege
The front door stops being a door. The Last House — Louis Leterrier’s sci-fi thriller starring Greta Lee and Wagner Moura — arrives on Netflix August 7, 2026, the same day Samsung’s foldables hit shelves and four days after this article. The premise is pure pressure-cooker: a family of four is suddenly sealed inside their home with no exit, dwindling resources, and a mysterious force outside (and maybe inside) keeping them trapped as days stretch into years.
Who is stuck in the house
Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent, Narcos) plays Jason; Greta Lee (Past Lives, A House of Dynamite) plays Ann. Riley Chung and Noah Alexander Sosnowski portray the kids, with Emma Ho and Gabriel Barbosa as their older selves as the siege ages. Leterrier (Now You See Me, Lupin) described the core loop simply: food runs out, explanations do not arrive, and the family has to decide what comes next.
August’s Netflix horror lane
The Last House is one of Tom’s Guide’s top August Netflix picks alongside Outer Banks Season 5 (Aug 20) and Adam Scott / Robert De Niro thriller The Whisper Man (Aug 28). Runtime sits around 1h 50m — a single-night watch, not a limited-series commitment. Trailer energy leans rain-soaked dread over jump-scare spam.
“Food is dwindling, and this family has to rely on each other and try to understand what comes next. What’s locking them in, and how will they survive?”
— Louis Leterrier — Netflix Tudum, The Last House trailer coverage
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