Vivarium

Vivarium (2019) is a sci-fi horror by Lorcan Finnegan you can watch online on iFILM. A young couple goes house-hunting and ends up in a trap with no way out.

Gemma and Tom (Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg) follow an odd real estate agent to a suburb called Yonder. Then he vanishes. Every house is identical down to the brick, the roads loop back on themselves, and the clouds look painted on. Soon a box arrives on the doorstep: a baby, and a note promising release once they raise him. The boy grows at an unnatural rate and mimics adults with unsettling precision.

The Irish director turns a model neighborhood into a parable about mortgages, conformity and parenthood as a life sentence. Rows of matching rooftops weigh on you more than any creature could. Stream Vivarium (2019) online on iFILM.