Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg take a visit to Heaven as a suburban Hell, with less than heavenly results.
Spoiler Warning! This article is packed to the brim with Vivarium spoilers. If you haven’t seen the film, go check it out and then come back here and enjoy. Writer-director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Garret Shanley make a big impression with their second feature film Vivarium. The movie stars Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg as a young couple looking for a home who wind up trapped in a disturbingly sterile development called Yonder. It’s a fairly simple set-up that soon reveals a slew of troubling thematic and world-building complexities that’ll burrow their way into …
Suspense thriller Vivarium tells the unsettling story of what happens when a young couple, Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) and Gemma (Imogen Poots), decides to go on a search for their dream home. Their search places them directly in the center of a terrifying nightmare they can’t escape, trapped within mysterious rows of identical houses. Eisenberg also takes the lead in the historical drama Resistance, where he plays a younger version of famous theater performer Marcel Marceau. The film follows Marceau living in Nazi-occupied France, where he has no intention of getting involved in World War II until he decides …
Note: This is a re-post of our Vivarium review from the 2019 Fantasia International Film Festival. The film is now available on demand and on Digital HD. Sometimes, nature is a bitch. It's not evil, it just is -- you can't call a lion an asshole for eating that gazelle and a parasite isn't exacting some cruel vengeance against its host, but the predator's lack of moral culpability doesn't make the food chain any less painful for the prey. Lorcan Finnegan's sophomore feature Vivarium is all about the ravages of life cycles, natural and …
The suspense thriller Vivarium tells the unsettling story of what happens when one couple’s search for a dream home places them directly in the center of a terrifying nightmare that they can’t escape, once they are trapped within mysterious rows of identical houses. Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) and Gemma (Imogen Poots) take an unsuspecting trip to the idyllic suburban neighborhood of Yonder, and quickly find a hell that strains their patience and their relationship. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actress Imogen Poots talked about the film’s building sense of terror, the support system that …
White picket fences. Sunny skies. Block parties. Nosy neighbors. Little boxes. Mortgages. Ah, the wonders of Suburbia, the one-time dream neighborhoods that have since become symbols of class signaling, domesticity, and getting trapped in a matching McMansion, popping out a couple of kids until your life passes you by and, dear god, we used to have dreams once, Linda! Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finegan captures that existential malaise and panic handily with his new oddball fantasy-horror Vivarium, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg as ac couple who gets trapped -- quite literally -- in a suburban housing complex. When the pair …
Sometimes, nature is a bitch. It's not evil, it just is -- you can't call a lion an asshole for eating that gazelle and a parasite isn't exacting some cruel vengeance against its host, but the predator's lack of moral culpability doesn't make the food chain any less painful for the prey. Lorcan Finnegan's sophomore feature Vivarium is all about the ravages of life cycles, natural and man-made, from the intimate perspective of a couple experiencing the peaks and valleys of the 21st Century human life cycle in fast-forward, while literally trapped in …