Netflix’s The Last House will arrive a week before J.J. Abrams-produced The End of Oak Street, with both science-fiction thrillers centred on suburban families facing an unexplained threat. The close timing highlights Hollywood’s recurring tendency towards similar premises, though the films take their families’ confinement and survival in different directions.

In The Last House, Greta Lee and Wagner Moura play parents trapped inside their home as the apparent worldwide lockdown lasts for months and supplies diminish; they later question whether the force imprisoning them may be protecting them. The End of Oak Street, set in the 1980s and starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, follows a family whose whole neighbourhood is transported to a prehistoric world inhabited by dinosaurs. Netflix’s film appears more horror-focused, while Abrams’ production leans towards adventurous survival mystery.