This Sci-Fi Horror Is A Twilight Zone-Style Suburban Nightmare

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«You are a mother, someone who prepares her son for the world [and then] dies,» a droid-like boy tells his captive carer in this satirical sci-fi about the horrors of domesticity. From director Lorcan Finnegan and screenwriter Garret Shanley, Vivarium follows Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom (Jesse Eisenberg), a young couple looking to purchase their first home together. Meeting with realtor Martin (Jonathan Aris), they are immediately discomforted by the man's creepy, robotic presence but take him up on his offer to visit a suburban development called Yonder.

Martin paints Yonder as a utopia, claiming it provides «all you need and all you want,» but when Gemma and Tom see the neighborhood for themselves, they aren't convinced. The endless rows of identical houses spook them, as does Martin's increasingly strange behaviour. Inside house number nine, Gemma and Tom share looks as they browse the house's unusual decor — framed photographs of the house itself and a fully furnished boy's room — and Martin mimicks Gemma in a pitch-perfect tone. Things take an even stranger turn when Gemma, clocking nobody is around, turns to ask Martin when people are due to move in and finds he has gone.

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Attempting to leave the neighbourhood themselves, they get lost in the maze of houses and find themselves back at number nine again and again, but it isn't until the next day that they realize they are truly screwed. Having now tried escaping on car and foot, Gemma and Tom relent, staying in number nine and living off the vacuum-packed food anonymously dropped off for them. Then another package is left for them, one that is far less welcome and reads, «Raise the boy and be released.» Inside it is a baby boy