Within the neatly outlined expectations of a heteronormative society, it’s expected that one should partner up, get a house outside the city, settle down, and start raising them babies. For some people, that sounds like a horror movie, and Irish director Lorcan Finnegan has made it into one. Vivarium stars Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg as a couple looking to purchase their first home together, so they check out a development called Yonder. It’s really the definition of little boxes made of ticky-tacky that all look the same from the Weeds theme song, and despite a hard sales pitch from a disturbingly happy real-estate agent, the couple decide that Yonder isn’t for them. But that doesn’t mean they can leave. Trapped in a prefabricated-home loop, Poots and Eisenberg’s characters realize they are stuck in subdivision hell, and things start to unravel as they’re presented with a very, um, troubling test they have to pass if they ever want to escape. Vivarium is coming March 27.
Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg Can’t Get Out of the Damn Suburbs in the Vivarium Trailer
