WHAT’S IT ABOUT
Tom and Gemma (Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots) are looking for the perfect home. When a strange real-estate agent takes them to Yonder, a mysterious suburban neighborhood of identical houses, Tom and Gemma can’t leave quick enough. But when they try to exit the labyrinth-like housing development, each road takes them back to where they started. Soon, they realize their search for a dream home has plunged them into a terrifying nightmare, in this taut thriller filled with white-knuckle suspense.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
It was a good idea and going by the trailers, it had a certain Twilight Zone feel to it. The problem was it only had one good idea; a couple gets “trapped” in a new housing community with no way out. Once this happens, there’s nothing left to save this movie. The couple, Tom and Gemma, try daily to get out but fail. As for resources, everything just shows up in front of their house in a box. Once this new couple gets pass the fact that no matter what they do, they can’t get away, this 95 minute movie could have ended at the twenty-five-minute mark, but it didn’t. At this point, a baby appeared in a box. Raise the child and be released was the writing on the box. You would think this movie is about to get better and you would be wrong. From the time this film starts to the last scene, it stayed consistently boring. Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, the couple, were boring. Their conversations were boring. The discovery of the baby in the box was boring. The ending was interesting but it was too little too late and didn’t surprise anyone.
OUR RATING – FOR THE CONCEPT ONLY: 2
Media
- Genre – Drama
- Street date
- Digital – March 27th 2020
- DVD/Blu-Ray – May 12th 2020
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish
Extras
- Audio Commentary – Director Lorcan Finnegan and Executive Producer Brunella Cocchiglia deliver a dry, but informative commentary track that discusses some of the decisions made during production and tidbits about the story and characters. It’s not constant talking and Lorcan is the main focal point.
- Creating The Suburban Nightmare Of Vivarium (HD, 21 Mins.) – A longer than average EPK piece that is clip heavy, along with some talking head interviews that discuss making the film. Again, this is quite bland.