Writer/director Adrian Chiarella talks to IndieWire about releasing "Leviticus" in a watershed moment for horror, the wild Sundance reception, and putting out a queer horror romance in 1,000-plus theaters amid a fractured moment for the LGBTQ community.
“I wanted to make a film about that about how we were going backwards in a way, but I didn’t want to go backwards as a filmmaker,” says writer and ...
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Anyone seriously tapped into the horror genre can tell you that queerness has always played a major role in it, though for much of film history has had to exist ...
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Neon has shared the official trailer for Leviticus, the upcoming horror thriller from Australian filmmaker Adrian Chiarella. The movie had its world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival last January. It is now scheduled to arrive in theaters on June 19, 2026. Check out the Leviticus trailer below (watch more trailers): What happens in […]
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Neon has released the trailer for “Leviticus,” the highly anticipated conversion therapy horror film that had a buzzy debut at Sundance. The film marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Adrian Chiarella. According to the official plot description, “Leviticus” is about “two star-crossed teenage boys [who] must escape a violent entity that takes the form […]
With echoes of "It Follows," Adrian Chiarella's LGBTQ horror movie wowed Sundance and will soon open from Neon.
While we wait and see if another filmmaker on this list gets around to making his planned It Follows sequel, Australian director Adrian Chiarella’s unnerving feature debut Leviticus brings a memorable dose of similar nightmarish dread. Following a pair of boys living in a conservative Christian community in rural Australia, as they begin to act […]
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Queer horror film, Leviticus, the directorial debut of Australian filmmaker Adrian Chiarella is capturing plenty of attention ahead of its worldwide release. The queer horror film has picked up plenty ...
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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Adrian Chiarella, the Australian filmmaker whose conversion therapy horror film Leviticus sold out of Sundance for mid-seven-figures, in the first deal of the 2026 festival. Produced by Causeway Films, the team behind Talk to Me, Bring Her Back and The Babadook, Leviticus follows two teenage boys who must escape a violent […]