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Leviticus



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2026
Runtime: 1h 28m
Country: Australia
Language: English
Genre Tags: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Plot Summary: Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most - each other.

Poster - Title Card


phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Sort of a queer, Australian "It Follows," being stalked by the doppelganger of the person you most desire. The real horror is, of course, the parents, church and community members who hate their children for who they are and try to exorcise the gay gene by pitting lovers against each other. They are creating distrust in all relationships, and crushing human connection in order to control and/or destroy. The evil twins were the least scary and anxiety-inducing people in this movie.


Outside Reviews:

Cortlyn Kelly
2.5 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

Despite some faltering in fleshing out the script, it's clear that director/writer Adrian Chiarella wants to convey the damage caused by homophobia and exclusion. While "Leviticus" mostly manifests this pain through physical harm, there is an evident mental battle in denying desires because of internalized guilt. Bird and Clausen's performances bring an elevated energy to the premise, and their chemistry causes the overall film to come across as more romantic than horrific. After all, love wins.


Monica Castillo
Grade: B - Love and death wear familiar faces in the harrowing Australian horror Leviticus

One of the most buzzed-about movies out of Sundance this year, Adrian Chiarella's feature debut Leviticus is a lean, mean horror movie from Australia that wastes no time getting into the terrors. Using religious fanaticism and homophobia as its jumping-off point, Chiarella spins a terrifying story about a supernatural being that won't quit stalking its victims until a bloody end, like a mix between It Follows and the suffocating religious fanaticism that destroys a family in The Witch. The result combination is a harrowing thriller about how intolerance kills—quite literally, in this case.