With a little over a week left in July, it’s time to start looking at what Netflix has to offer for subscribers in the coming month. There is a mix of original and licensed shows and movies hitting the streamer in August, with some returning for new seasons and others being brand-new. Netflix has not had much success with sci-fi movies this year since War Machine was released in February and became one of the most-watched movies ever on the platform. Many new movies have flown under the radar, apart from a few, like the hit rom-com Voicemails for Isabelle.
But for fans craving raw action and horror, Netflix might have saved the best for later with a new sci-fi horror set for release on August 7. This film features an expansive narrative and has attracted top talent as stars and director. Past Lives and The Morning Show‘s Greta Lee stars alongside Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent) as Anna and Jason, respectively. The couple has two children, Graham and Ruth. This family is in for a rude awakening when, one morning, they realize they’re trapped in their home with no way out, as all potential exits are sealed by an unexplained phenomenon.
The sci-fi thriller titled The Last House was written by Matthew Robinson and directed by Louis Leterrier. The French director is known for directing high-octane thrillers like The Transporter and Fast & Furious. Leterrier directed the first and second movies in Jason Statham‘s franchise. He also directed the tenth installment in the Vin Diesel-led franchise and is also back for the 11th installment set for 2028. If Leterrier’s past is any indicator, The Last House could be a thrilling ride.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
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🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
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Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
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He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
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But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
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You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
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The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
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You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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What Is ‘The Last House About?
The film combines science fiction with post-apocalyptic horror as a four-person family is trapped in their house. They later learn that everyone in the world is facing the same circumstances. After the shock wears off, the family must figure out how to survive, so they go back to basics, focusing on their fundamental needs. And for three years, they survive, and the kids grow up. When the movie starts, Noah Alexander Sosnowski and Riley Chung play young Graham and Ruth, but later, Gabriel Chung and Emma Ho take over the roles. But trouble is far from over for this family. They may think they’re one of the lucky few to survive, but what if they weren’t that lucky? Outside, anew threat emerges that could end them all. When they can finally leave, maybe they don’t want to.
The Last House hits Netflix on August 7. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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