Vivarium (2019)

Belgium, Denmark, Ireland

Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Horror

Fantastic Films, Frakas Productions, Lovely Productions, XYZ Films, PingPongFilm, Saban Films

Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Aris, Senan Jennings, Éanna Hardwicke, Molly McCann

Lorcan Finnegan

Lorcan Finnegan, Garret Shanley, Garret Shanley

Taglines: You're home. Forever.

baby, suburbia, suburb, trapped, body bag, real estate agent

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.

Reviews:

Author: disasteroidd420
Vivarium was eerie and creepy, and definitely a movie that will mess with your head, albeit probably in ways other than you anticipated. You'll be tricked in the beginning into believing this movie is actually a sociological observation of the slow and robotic death of suburban life: you and your nuclear family settle into middle class conformity in a large, seemingly endless design of mazes and hedges, condemned to repeat the endless cycle of home, school (or work), home, sleep, rinse and repeat. And it certainly gives one those unsettling vibes, especially when the creepy box with the build-a-baby arrives at their prison doorsteps. Rather, this is something else entirely. While it does well maintaining that nearly subtle sense of wrongness, of something being terribly just _off_, in the end, you may find yourself somewhat disappointed, as it is at this precise moment the film becomes like every other movie of its kind out there. Quite possibly, it is the end that is the most disturbing, for it seems to insinuate that humanity is as disposable as livestock.