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Movies that feel like Vivarium (2019)

If you loved Vivarium, the closest films we have are A Cure for Wellness (2017), Color Out of Space (2020) and Don't Worry Darling (2022). All three share Vivarium's cerebral and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lorcan Finnegancerebraltwistydreadunsettling
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A Cure for Wellness
2017 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 42%6.4horror · mystery · science fiction

Cerebral and twisty in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

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Color Out of Space
2020 · dir. Richard Stanley
🍅 86%6.1horror · science fiction · mystery

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Vivarium does

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 38%6.3thriller · science fiction · mystery

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

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The Lodge
2020 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 75%6horror · mystery

Mystery built on twists, twice over

The difference: Not nearly as cerebral as Vivarium

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%6.2horror · mystery

Both lean on dread more than on horror

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 78%6.2horror · mystery

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%5.7horror · mystery

Horror with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Dread-soaked science fiction in both cases

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Hellhole
2022 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%5.8horror · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of unease, in both cases

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%6.5horror · mystery

Both working the same horror territory

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%6.5horror · mystery

Mystery of the same temperament

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%5.2horror · mystery

The horror is handled with the same confidence

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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