- Director
- Lorcan Finnegan
- Year
- 2019
- Country
- Ireland, Belgium, Denmark
- Runtime
- 97 min
Also released as
- Vivero
- 超完美社區
- หมู่บ้านวิวา(ห์)เรียม
- 비바리움
- Vivarium: Το Σπίτι σας. Για Πάντα
Filed under
Vivarium
Vivarium is a 2019 Irish, Belgian and Danish psychological horror film directed by Lorcan Finnegan.
A young couple cannot leave a show home. Bleak, airless, and about mortgages.
Sign in to track what you have survived.
A young couple viewing a starter home in a new development cannot find the way out of the estate.
Every house is identical, the clouds are painted, and there is no traffic. A box arrives with a baby in it and a note saying they will be released when they raise it.
Lorcan Finnegan makes it about mortgages and reproduction as a trap, which is not subtle and does not need to be. The estate is called Yonder and the houses are number 9.
Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg are given nothing to do except deteriorate, and the film is deliberately airless and repetitive, which is either the point or the problem depending on the viewer.
The child is the most unpleasant thing in it and the performance is a real achievement.
Rate this film
No ratings yet. Score it on the five axes and yours will be the first.
Sign in to rate this and add it to your shelf.
Trailer
The sleeves
The same film, sold as a different film in each territory. Click any of them.
Where to watch
Australia
Canada
Germany
Finland
UK
USA
Legal sources only. Availability data from JustWatch via TMDB.
Checked 9 Aug 2026
Discuss with AI
Open a chatbot with a question about this already typed out. Useful for a second opinion, a plot detail, or working out which cut you are holding.
Adjacent
WATCHknownGoodnight Mommy
Austrian, cold, and it works out its own twist early enough that the dread is the point.
WATCHknownThe Babadook
A film about a widowed mother who resents her son, wearing a monster as a coat.
knownConfessions
A teacher calmly tells her class she knows two of them killed her daughter, and that she has already taken revenge.
WATCHcanonCarrie
De Palma's split screens, a bucket of blood, and the last thirty seconds that made an entire genre of ending.
WATCHcanonChristine
Carpenter directing King's killer car in the same year he made almost nothing else work.
WATCHcanonRosemary's Baby
A film about a woman whose body and doctor and husband are all making decisions without her.
- Next in Killer Kid: Hatching (2022) →
- Next in Psychological: His House (2020) →