FilmSci-Fi Horror Psychological Survival

Vivarium2019

Name: Vivarium
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological, Survival, Cosmic & Lovecraftian
Released: 2019
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Senan Jennings, Éanna Hardwicke, Jonathan Aris

“You're home. Forever.”

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan

IMDb 5.9RT Critics 73%Metacritic 64TMDB 6.1

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Trailer

Year

2019

Runtime

99 min

Box office

Budget

$4,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$488,000

🏆 3 wins & 10 nominations total

Synopsis

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.

The Fear Score take

Vivarium weaponizes the mundane, trapping you in a candy-colored suburb where every house is identical and escape is a cruel joke. The dread here is slow, airless, and existential — a creeping horror of routine, repetition, and purpose stripped bare. It gets under your skin not with shocks but with a suffocating sense of futility.