Vivarium: The Kubrick Horror Cut Announcement

So I just want to announce that my next fan edit is finally reaching the point of completion. It is a fan edit of the 2019 horror film Vivarium. The film takes place in a (liminal) suburbia environment where Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) and Gemma (Imogen Poots) are trapped and forced to take care of a child if they want to be "released".

The film is visually amazing and I first learned about it through my interest of liminal spaces. However, the film does have some issues with pacing and the fact that it can be tedious at times. So for this edit, it is based on/inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining which also features a plot involving characters stranded in a single location with the Overlook slowly taking its course on the characters. The other reason has to do with it being really easy to rescore due to the minimal score used in the film.

The main goals are for me to cut down some of the scenes for pacing and rescore the entire film with Classical music that is heavily experimental and modernist (like Krzysztof Penderecki and Charles Ives). Some of the tracks are taken directly from The Shining like Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind's music (and an unused track that can be found from The Shining Rediscovering Lost Scores Album). This also goes for adding in time cards similar to The Shining and using Al Bowlly's "Midnight the Stars and You" and Henry Hall and the Gleneagles Hotel Band's "Home" (the former being used as bookends). Music editing techniques utilized in The Shining such as Mickey Mousing and sandwiching several different pieces on top of one another are also used.

The full changelist will be made available soon on r/starlightfanedits and here.

For now, the trailer can be found on my Starlight Fan Edits YouTube Channel and selected clips will be released for viewing.