A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.
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Imogen Poots
Gemma
Jesse Eisenberg
Tom
Senan Jennings
Young Boy
Éanna Hardwicke
Older Boy
Jonathan Aris
Martin
Côme Thiry
Baby
Molly McCann
Molly
Danielle Ryan
School Mom
Olga Wehrly
Crying Woman
Fionn Lockett
Boy at TV
Director
Lorcan Finnegan
Screenplay
Garret Shanley
Tagline
"You're home. Forever."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$4,000,000
Revenue
$488,000
Production
Fantastic Films, Frakas Productions, XYZ Films, PingPongFilm, VOO, BeTV, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Saban Films, Lionsgate
SWITCH.
November 20, 2019
‘Vivavirum’ slots in neatly next to Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe’s ‘Greener Grass’ and Richard Stanley’s ‘Color Out of Space’ to form a loose trilogy of deeply surrealist releases in 2019 that skewer our perceptions of suburbia and the family unit. Director Lorcan Finnegan has brought to life a disturbing, thoughtful and bleakly funny mutant of a movie. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article.....
actionace
March 28, 2020
Pretty pointless movie. Signed up to review because I couldn't believe the rating this received. Yes, you get a weird realtor and a creepy kid but other than that you just watch the couple basically repeat each day hating being stuck. You're not going to learn anything more about the weird freaks or why they're doing what they're doing and will end up feeling like you just wasted your time. Yeah, ...
jackcarlin18
April 13, 2020
> **_Review on Horror Focus_** This indie sci-fi thriller Vivarium from Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan is many things, one definitely being quite the head-scratcher. Not because of it being an intellectually challenging story, or one that is laced with twists and turns to create an unpredictable viewing, but a film that delivers a narratives so peculiar that it is like something you've never s...
Kamurai
July 13, 2020
Amazing watch, will watch again, and can recommend. Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg (both from "The Art of Self Defense") are amazing in their roles as an abducted couple force to raise a child. This is an amazing premise (see "Solar Opposites" for something similar), and one that is extremely hard to discuss without spoilers. This is a wonderful mix of tropes. There is a prisoner / abducte...
Oswaldo (BlvckBruh)
August 6, 2020
Sci-fi thriller, just not _"on the edge of sit"_ type. Lorcan Finnegan remakes his short film **Foxes** and adds a life message to it.
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