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Once you are done watching The Last House on Netflix, it will make you look at your own front door with a fair bit more suspicion than you did before. A family of four is trapped inside their house and cannot get out? No idea of what is happening outside, and nobody appears to be riding in to save the day. Oh, marvellous. What an absolute treat!

And then it all starts going properly to pot. Food running low and patience wearing thinner by the minute. Everyone slowly getting on everyone else’s nerves. You know how family tension can get after one long weekend together? Right. Now imagine that, except you physically cannot leave. Good Lord.

That is what The Last House does so well. It keeps tightening the screws. It makes even the tiniest setback feel catastrophic.

So, if you watched all that and somehow loved the misery, we have more for you. You’re clearly made of sterner stuff than the rest of us. Here are five more horror films that should do the job.

Five horror movies to watch if you loved The Last House:

Brick (2025)

Starting with the 2025 sensation, Brick. Tim and Olivia wake up to discover that their Hamburg apartment building has been sealed behind an enormous black wall overnight. Doors, windows, everything. Gone! And as if being trapped with your already-struggling partner were not quite enough, they now have to rely on a bunch of baffled neighbours to find a way out. Brick takes you through that feeling right into that mistrust and that pressure-cooker-like situation.

Viewers, mind you, we’re not entirely sold. Although critics didn’t like the film, plenty clearly fancied seeing what all the fuss was about: it got 61.8million Netflix views in its first 91 days. And would you believe writer-director Philip Koch built the whole thing around such a brutally straightforward idea? One wall. No blinking exit. Speaking of nowhere to go…

Nowhere (2023)

Now, how about being shoved into a shipping container and dropped into the bloody sea? Because apparently, walls were not stressful enough. Nowhere follows a pregnant Mía, who is fleeing a totalitarian country, when she becomes separated from her husband. A storm sends her container overboard, and, just like that, she is alone in the middle of the ocean trying to stay alive. Oh, and she is about to give birth. Of course she is! Why make things manageable, eh?

Nowhere becomes an extraordinary survival story as she tries to protect her baby while finding her way back to the man she lost. Did you know the title actually comes from the English word painted on the container itself? Director Albert Pintó also wanted the whole thing to feel raw and immediate, with Anna Castillo carrying enormous stretches of the film almost entirely by herself. You will probably spend half the film wondering what you would do, and the other half admitting you would be absolutely useless.

In the Tall Grass (2019)

Now, this Netflix film is exactly why you do not follow mysterious voices, especially not in creepy fields. Becky and her brother Cal hear a young boy calling for help from a stretch of towering grass and decide to go in after him. Noble idea, dreadful execution. Within minutes, they are separated, and the field seems to rearrange itself whenever it fancies. Lovely stuff! Sure, it starts as a rescue attempt, but it turns into a never-ending nightmare.

And yes, there is a proper horror pedigree behind it. The film is based on the novella by Stephen King and Joe Hill, while director Vincenzo Natali had been fascinated by King since reading The Shining as a child. He also insisted on filming in real grass fields, which sounds romantic until you remember they were shooting an unpleasant horror film in them. After all that wandering, though, perhaps you fancy something simpler.

Don’t Move (2024)

Don’t Move gives the protagonist Iris one of the most vicious countdowns imaginable. She is alone in the woods and vulnerable when she encounters a stranger who initially seems helpful. Then the mask slips. He injects her with a paralytic and explains that the drug will gradually shut down her body. That leaves her with roughly 20 minutes before she can barely move at all. Oh, excellent! Run for your life while your legs are giving up on you. What could possibly go wrong?

The twenty-minute deterioration was not plucked out of thin air, by the way. The filmmakers consulted an anaesthesiologist to make Iris’s paralysis feel believable, and Kelsey Asbille has explained that the central section plays with real-time terror. So when those minutes start disappearing, you feel them. Sam Raimi produced the film too, which makes perfect sense.

The Elixir

Now this is where everything goes to hell. The Elixir centres on a dysfunctional Indonesian family connected to a herbal medicine business, where patriarch Sadimin becomes rather too enthusiastic about an experimental anti-ageing concoction. He drinks it and appears rejuvenated. But then, because heaven forbid anything nice happen in horror, he dies and comes back as a ferocious zombie.

Here’s a fun fact: The Elixir was Netflix Indonesia’s first zombie film, and director Kimo Stamboel was already well-versed in gruesome genre filmmaking before taking it on. More importantly, though, the family drama is still in action even though the undead start charging about. At one point, you’ll start wondering which is more horrific, the zombies or the resentment. Bloody families!