Netflix Smashes Records: 'A Quiet Place' Successor Hits 70 Million Views in Weeks

Despite receiving poor critical reviews, Netflix's sci-fi thriller The Last House demonstrated strong audience appeal, generating an additional 12 million views in its third week of release. This brought its total viewing hours to over 130 million across three weeks, although it lost the top spot to the teen drama Don't Say Good Luck, missing number one by just 800,000 views in the week of August 17 to August 23. Premiering on August 7, the film had garnered 27 million views in its first week and 33 million in its second, accumulating a total of 72 million views. To break into Netflix's all-time top-10 list, which includes titles like War Machine (140 million views) and Leave the World Behind (143 million views), The Last House would need to nearly double its current viewership.

Directed by Louis Leterrier, The Last House stars critically acclaimed actors Greta Lee and Wagner Moura. Lee, known for her lead role in Past Lives and a key role in Tron: Ares, and Moura, who rose to prominence in Netflix's Narcos and earned an Oscar nomination for The Secret Agent, portray a couple. Their characters, along with their two children, find themselves sealed inside their home after a mysterious rainfall, facing a lockdown with dwindling resources and overwhelming confusion. The film's critical reception, as reflected by its 28% score on Rotten Tomatoes, points to an