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Vivarium
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
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. From TMDB
183 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 1, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 42 | 14 | 105 |
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| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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Vivarium is a 2019 science fiction mystery horror film, directed by Lorcan Finnegan, starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg and Senan Jennings.
- 173 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon
- posts span Nov 20, 2019 to Nov 1, 2026
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60 of 183 · most liked firstStrong folk horror film! Complete with rituals, curses, surrealism, wolves, and ticks. From the same director as The Surfer and Vivarium and Without Name.
neutral · AI labelView post →Vivarium (2019) - Simple, slow paced, and deeply deeply weird. This film got dragged for how slow paced and simplistic it is, but it honestly was perfect to me. It's one of the most unique and believable horror concepts I've ever seen and I thought it was executed to a T -- with the drawn-out nature of it just adding to the atmosphere. YMMV but I thought it was fantastic.
positive · AI labelView post →There's something deeply unsettling about American suburbs, rows of identical houses, and not a human being in sight, no noises, just this artifical maze, my Uber took a detour though one once and I looked up from my phone and saw that I didn't realize where I am and it all looked so identical it was disorienting and I freaked out a bit, had to open Google maps to realize where I was. The movie Vivarium captures this feeling well. Why don't y'all get out and go for a walk and talk to your…
neutral · AI labelView post →The 11 year old is very cute and has big eyes so he can pass for younger. He’s a horror fan and we were just out and I mentioned it to an acquaintance and she said “oh what’s your favorite horror movie?” He said, “Vivarium”
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're looking for good movies that move around similar "trapped in one location" concepts: VIVARIUM (2019). Brilliant 5/5. 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (2016). Underrated IMO. CUBE (1997). Old-school indie awesome. BRICK (2025). Flawed but interesting German film (& the closest in concept to TLH)
positive · AI labelView post →Vivarium is a really interesting movie, with a great concept that is massively let down by an ending that left just far too many things unexplained.
neutral · AI labelView post →Vivarium ⁞2019 www.imdb.com/title/tt8368406 #NowWatching #filmsky #horrormovie #scifi #sci-fi ·a young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighbourhood of identical houses·
neutral · AI labelView post →Vivarium - Official Announce Trailer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Join the #defconmovienight crowd tonight at 8pm PST for ‘Vivarium’. It’s a strange fable that will make you rethink the real estate hustle. Stars Imogen Poots, a great actor with a comically British name. We’ll be in the movie-night-text channel of the Discord (discord.gg/defcon). #defcon
neutral · AI labelView post →Ooo this week is gonna be my specialty! 💖 I’m Clover, and I write experimental psychological horror with a focus on isolation. ☺️ I love the movie Vivarium. It’s weird, it’s visually stunning, and there’s a lot of social commentary in the plot. #HorrorWritersChat
positive · AI labelView post →Zombieland and Vivarium are incredible and he is incredible in both. I think zombieland is the movie that changed my perception of him.
neutral · AI labelView post →Still More Movies You’ve Never Heard Of Week resumes with TFH Guru Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary for the trippy Jesse Eisenberg-Imogen Poots paranoid suburban curio Vivarium! trailersfromhell.com/vivarium/
neutral · AI labelView post →I rewatched Vivarium last night. He is good, and that movie still scares the crap out of me. Masterfully unsettling. A Real Pain was a joy to watch.
positive · AI labelView post →Just saw the movie Vivarium. I think it's a pretty awesome movie. Sad to see the reviews are pretty low.
positive · AI labelView post →And don’t get me started on the movie Vivarium (2018)
neutral · AI labelView post →I arranged for a horror movie night with some of the other folks at the shop who don't drink alcohol for a Halloween activity. Wore my Star Fleet uniform for a costume in honor of Patrick Stewart. Our movies of choice are Vivarium & Backrooms.
neutral · AI labelView post →FINALLY got to see Cuckoo. Reminds me of Vivarium. Has kinda culty vibes. Dan Stevens is really great. #MoviesWithVlad
neutral · AI labelView post →If you like the paintings of René Magritte, you may also like the surreal horror film VIVARIUM (USA 2019). I've had a great time! 🙃👍
positive · AI labelView post →Immediate thoughts: - I liked it! Echoes of the Portal games, PSYCHO, and VIVARIUM. - Even if the movie had sucked, the bit where they film the commercial for the store would’ve been worth the ticket price. My only real complaint was that [NAME REDACTED] was wasted on the scientist role.
neutral · AI labelView post →This Vivarium movie is pretty fuckin creepy so far I gotta tell ya
positive · AI labelView post →They made a movie about it. called Vivarium
neutral · AI labelView post →"Backrooms: (2026) is another amazing film, I see why it's getting so much praise. Had strong vibes of Channel Zero, with a touch of Vivarium. And a hint of Severence. It'll stick with me for a while, I feel.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is pretty similar to 2019 horror movie Vivarium, although that's more of a Little Boxes suburbia vision of the concept of "trapped but outside"
neutral · AI labelView post →45. I animated astroturf for a horror film called Vivarium back in 2018
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched "Vivarium" last night. This movie is mysterious and strange! It's awesome! #vivarium #horrormovie
positive · AI labelView post →Last year @primarycinema.bsky.social talked us through the Changeling Face of Irish Horror; the reclaiming of classic Irish folk tales in films like The Hole in the Ground, Vivarium and You Are Not My Mother. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTqw...
neutral · AI labelView post →just remembered that annoying movie Vivarium 🤮
negative · AI labelView post →Put on a movie called Vivarium the other day and it flung me into my movies era like should I start using my letterboxd acct idkkkk
neutral · AI labelView post →Vivarium. Finally a movie about how fucking scary real estate agents are
positive · AI labelView post →📽️ EVERY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT 🍿 (263/365) #NowShowing VIVARIUM (2020) 🧡🤘 #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →i remember getting angry at seeing a suggested video Vivarium Explained because that movie explains the fuck out of itself at every step and i wound up watching it to see what they could possibly add and they added: nothing. thus i drew that line in the sand perhaps too late
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw "Vivarium" in my Trending and thought: "That whacked-out horror movie with Imogen Poots?? Why's everyone talking about that?" But No, it was this XD XD XD www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_T...
neutral · AI labelView post →Haven’t seen the movie, but I’m one of those people who gets more creeped out by the concept of backrooms than monsters in backrooms. While I get that a cool setting doesn’t make a plot, I want the a movie that treats backrooms the same way Vivarium treated the endless suburban development.
neutral · AI labelView post →Top image looks like one of the movie posters for Vivarium
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 3 of #100DaysofHorror: The Surfer (2024), by Lorcan Finnegan. The director of Vivarium made a movie starring Nicolas Cage? Surely this will be normal
neutral · AI labelView post →You guys ever see the movie Vivarium? Because I feel like they were going for making an abstract horror and instead made a movie that perfectly describes the bad parts of autism parenting.
neutral · AI labelView post →365 Days of Film #47 - Vivarium (2020). A couple find themselves trapped in fake suburbia, raising a strange child. It feels like someone watched the Lego movie and Under The Dome, then had a bad dream. Not substantial enough to be a feature, maybe would have been more powerful as a short story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
neutral · AI labelView post →VIVARIUM isn't a good movie but it did capture the idea of "What aliens running a human zoo think a human habitat would be like" so like it's a suburban house but all the windows and chairs are in random places
negative · AI labelView post →Tonight's horror movie is called "Vivarium." Promises to be one of those weird mind-fuck types. I'm feeling sleepy and a little irritated from dinner, so no live posting tonight. But I rented "Flow" for tomorrow's movie, and I definitely will for that!
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched a movie called Vivarium and I absolutely positively was not prepared for that weird shit. That was….something.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie exposed the masses to zuck's shittyness, and he's an actor who vaguely looks like him. Be mad at him for his Lex Luthor and that one movie Vivarium
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Cuckoo and wow, what a fun movie. Double feature of that and Vivarium and you've got a good time.
neutral · AI labelView post →i'm intrested to see what kane pixels does with a big budget but also Vivarium is already basically a backrooms movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished it, it's pretty cool. Reminds me of the movie Vivarium for some reason.
neutral · AI labelView post →Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films: Malignant Oldboy Vivarium Irréversible Event Horizon
neutral · AI labelView post →They should have filmed here instead of building sets for the movie Vivarium
neutral · AI labelView post →Some interesting indie horror movies I’ve seen lately. VIVARIUM is more horror-adjacent and certainly has a horrific setting. THE VIGIL is my favorite of this bunch. PYEWACKET scratches a bit of that folk horror itch. THE DEEP HOUSE is super-ambitious and has some decent scares.
neutral · AI labelView post →Barely had work today. Watched Vivarium while refreshing my dashboard. 10/10 I loved that movie. I will be thinking about it 5ever
positive · AI labelView post →This is just the movie Vivarium irl
neutral · AI labelView post →I could say a lot of things criticizing Vivarium, but they're all summed up by my raw initial reaction of "what a fuckin Reddit-ass movie".
negative · AI labelView post →Watched Vivarium again to soothe my liminal space brain. Very disturbing film.
neutral · AI labelView post →(52/54) 1. Vivarium (2019) I've really wanted to find another horror film with similar vibes to this one, but I've found no others to date, not even by the same director. I think it's the most successful mix of liminal feeling meets horror film to date by far, honestly.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film was Vivarium (2019). I quite enjoyed the atmosphere, acting and the general presentation, but I'm not sure it really succeeded in the themes it was shooting for. Still worth a watch.
neutral · AI labelView post →Visiting a new 55+ community and it's feeling a lot like the movie Vivarium here 😨.
neutral · AI labelView post →just watched Vivarium - if The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror had a baby and literally delivered it outside the front door of Inside No.9 then this film is it; psychologically disturbing in parts, quite out there in others...Imogen Poots is the standout in this, a solid 3.5 out 5 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →Recently watched Vivarium with friends, and we ended up finding a different analysis for the movie too!! I'm gonna post the letterbox link here too but I also post everything under the thread with pictures so beware of spoilers 🧵🧶 letterboxd.com/kimprincxss/... #vivarium #letterbox #movieanalysis
neutral · AI labelView post →Is there a movie or other pop culture reference you have that most people wouldn’t get? My wife and I will sometimes imitate the alien character’s voice from the movie “Vivarium.” Especially after eating some thing declaring in that creepy voice, “Yum Yum.”
neutral · AI labelView post →The winning onset was when I was driving down the 101 for a client meeting and had to pull over and ended up lost in a fancy suburb that was all cul de sacs I could not escape from and I don't know if you've see that movie Vivarium.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I watched this movie Vivarium, it wasn't very good..." Ouch YouTube essayist, I really liked that movie :c
positive · AI labelView post →Vivarium is there because I finally watched it at the weekend and I'm still thinking about it. Also hilarious that a film about being trapped in suburban housing estate purgatory was shot in Portmarnock. I grew up in Portmarnock.
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