'The Last House' ending, explained. Because what?

Well, that was a bleak and bonkers two hours. Netflix’s The Last House might be one of the most baffling films on the platform in an age, as a certified genre Rolodex that blends The Call of Cthulhu with Home Alone and the overwhelming essence of COVID lockdowns. By the end of the movie, from director Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me), The Secret Agent Oscar-nominee Wagner Moura and Past Lives Oscar-snubbed Greta Lee have seen their family through five years of imprisonment in their own home thanks to some malevolent waterbending. But what actually happens at the end of The Last House? Well, we're still thinking about the family dog in the freezer, but we'll break it down. In a set-up not unlike Netflix thriller Brick, The Last House sees a Seattle family suddenly sealed inside their own home. Unlike Brick, the sealing happens during an extreme rainstorm, with the locks bolted by tendrils of water itself. And it's not just the home of Ann (Lee) and Jason (Moura) and their children Ruth (Riley Chung) and Graham (Noah Alexander Sosnowski) — it's the whole neighborhood. Scenes of being trapped inside might trigger memories of COVID lockdown for viewers, especially as the family tries h