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Vivarium
Vivarium

Vivarium

2019 99 min ★ 6.1 Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror

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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Cast

Imogen Poots

Imogen Poots

Gemma

Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg

Tom

Senan Jennings

Senan Jennings

Young Boy

Éanna Hardwicke

Éanna Hardwicke

Older Boy

Jonathan Aris

Jonathan Aris

Martin

Côme Thiry

Baby

Molly McCann

Molly McCann

Molly

Danielle Ryan

Danielle Ryan

School Mom

Olga Wehrly

Olga Wehrly

Crying Woman

Fionn Lockett

Boy at TV

Details

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

Reviews

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SWITCH.

November 20, 2019

★ 8/10

‘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.....

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actionace

March 28, 2020

★ 4/10

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, ...

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jackcarlin18

April 13, 2020

★ 6/10

> **_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...

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Kamurai

July 13, 2020

★ 9/10

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...

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Oswaldo (BlvckBruh)

August 6, 2020

★ 7/10

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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