Vivarium (2019)
You're home. Forever.
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Vivarium rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb5.9/10· 87K votes
Rotten Tomatoes73%
Metacritic64%
TMDb6.043/10· 3K votesWith 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 5.9/10 on IMDb and 64/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.
About Vivarium
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.
Cast of Vivarium
Imogen Poots
as Gemma
Jesse Eisenberg
as Tom
Senan Jennings
as Young Boy
Éanna Hardwicke
as Older Boy
Jonathan Aris
as Martin
- C
Côme Thiry
as Baby
Molly McCann
as Molly
Danielle Ryan
as School Mom
Olga Wehrly
as Crying Woman
- F
Fionn Lockett
as Boy at TV
- W
Walter McCabe
as Clapping Boy
- T
Terence McEneaney
as Husband sex couple
Vivarium facts
- Budget
- $4M
- Box office
- $488K
Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026MethodologyData sources
Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Sci-fi horror explores cynical suburban entrapment through awestruck mystery atmosphere
- •Real estate agent premise leads to unsettling creature and reality-bending narrative
- •Finnegan's direction creates surreal body bag imagery and psychological sci-fi tension
What the audience disliked
- •Slow burn pacing may test patience for viewers expecting quicker plot escalation
- •Dystopian premise darker than marketing suggests may disappoint mainstream audiences
Trailer
Where to watch Vivarium(US)
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