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Whatever is hanging about outside the Delgado family’s home in The Last House really needs to learn a thing or two about boundaries, because what the hell was that?

The movie gave a lot of us rainy-day PTSD as we watched Seattle be battered by a deluge, while the four Delgados are stuck indoors, their home having become the only place they can stay and cannot leave, all thanks to those hideous creatures. At first, it’s just days, but then years go by, and by that point, the whole idea of normal life starts to feel a bit silly to them, as well as us.

And then you see what has been keeping them inside: huge aquatic beasts with tentacles, and frankly, one look is enough. Worse still, they do not feel like animals blundering about in the dark but seem to know what they are doing, keeping the goosebumps firmly intact.

So if The Last House left you a bit rattled, but hungry for more, Netflix has plenty to serve your twisted fix. The next monsters are a different sort of nightmare, but none of them is the sort you would fancy meeting on the way home or, in the case of The Last House, outside.

Five terrifying Netflix monsters:

The Demogorgon: Stranger Things (2016–2025)

Going back in time, it feels mad to think that Stranger Things started with one Demogorgon, and that was enough to make Hawkins feel cursed. We’ve had the Mind Flayer since, and Vecna has done his fair share of damage, but that first Demo still has something the others never quite replaced.

Maybe it was the mystery; we knew blood could bring it out and watched it move between Hawkins and the Upside Down, and the way he took people with him to the other side still gives many chills.

Then season two of the show went crazy on them, but also gave us Dart, who grew into a Demodog and confirmed there was a whole life cycle behind these things. By season four, Russia had several of them locked away for experiments, and one still managed to turn a prison arena into a bloodbath.

So yes, The Last House creatures might make you think twice about stepping outside, but a Demogorgon does not need an invitation; it will simply come and get you.

The Entity – Bird Box (2018)

Compared to The Last House creatures, the Entity in Bird Box feels like a different problem altogether, because it does not need to hunt you down or force its way through the door; all it needs is for you to look at it once, and your own mind does the rest.

Psychological trauma, hallucinations, you name it, and you can’t kill it, there’s nowhere obvious to trap it, and certainly no chance of staring the thing down, because one glance could be the end of you.

Then Bird Box Barcelona shows the same thing happening elsewhere, so there is no comfort in thinking this was one town’s problem that could be boxed off and forgotten about. The Entity does not even need to come and collect you like a Demogorgon would; you see it, your mind turns against you, and that is that, making them impossible to deal with.

The Death Angels – A Quiet Place (2018)

A better part about The Last House is that at least staying inside will save you from getting killed, but for the Death Angels in A Quiet Place to ruin your day, simply one creak or even a cough is enough to bring them straight to you. They cannot see, but their hearing more than makes up for it, which means making noise becomes a fatal threat, and the bodies covered in armour make most attempts to hurt them get you nowhere.

The real breakthrough comes when Regan discovers that high-frequency feedback overwhelms their hearing and forces the armour around their heads to open, which means they can be hurt under specific conditions, which would have been useful to know a bit sooner we did.

Moder – The Ritual (2018)

Moder is one of those monsters that become more crazy the more you understand what it actually is. At first, the group only knows that something is following them through the Swedish forest, but once the creature comes out of the shadows, the whole situation takes on a far more disturbing edge.

This is not just some animal defending its territory; Moder is an ancient Jötunn, tied to Norse mythology, and it expects the people around it to worship it.

Moder does not simply kill anyone who crosses its path but decides who is worth keeping alive, and those who submit to it can be granted an unnaturally long life. Sounds tempting for about half a second, doesn’t it? Then you remember the price of authoritative control that the monster craves.

The Vesps – The Silence (2019)

Very similar to A Quiet Place monsters, the Vesps in The Silence are nasty creatures, but for a different reason: you are not looking out for one hulking creature in the distance but a swarm of small things that can be on you before you have much chance to react. Oh, and they are blind, so naturally they hunt through sound.

Once they escape from an underground cave system, the wasps spread fast to make even the slightest movement feel like a risk, because every bit of noise can draw them in. So, where in The Last House the creatures make the outside world the problem, the Vesps make you worry about every sound you make, wherever you are. One wrong squeak and the whole lot can come down on you.