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Vivarium

2019 · 99 min

A suffocating, surreal descent into domestic horror that feels like a waking nightmare of endless suburbia.

Directed by: Lorcan Finnegan
Genres: Science fiction, Mystery, Horror
Starring: Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Senan Jennings

Tagline: You're home. Forever.
Overview: 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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Directed by: Lorcan Finnegan
Genres: Science fiction, Mystery, Horror
Starring: Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Senan Jennings

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
parenthood
identity
conspiracy
Places: suburbs
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	6
Humour	3
Realism	4
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: science fiction, mystery, horror
Directed by: Lorcan Finnegan
Written by: Garret Shanley
Starring: Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Senan Jennings, Éanna Hardwicke, Jonathan Aris, Côme Thiry, Molly McCann, Danielle Ryan
Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Cinematography: MacGregor
Runtime: 99 min
Country: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, United States of America
Languages: English

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