Queer supernatural horror film Leviticus will light up theaters on June 19 via Neon.
The studio acquired the Australian film in a seven-figure deal out of Sundance.
Writer-director Adrian Chiarella makes his feature debut on the film, which will screen at SXSW in Texas later this month.
Joe Bird (Talk to Me) and Stacy Clausen star as star-crossed teenage boys who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.
Mia Wasikowska (Crimson Peak) co-stars, marking her return to the screen after a three-year absence, alongside Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie (The Nightingale), and Davida McKenzie (Silent Night).
Talk to Me and Bring Her Back producers Samanta Jennings and Kristina Ceyton of Causeway Films produce alongside Hannah Ngo. Causeway also bankrolled the picture with Salmira Productions.
“Leviticus is a strong debut with an incisive voice at the helm,” Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of Sundance. “We care deeply about Naim and Ryan’s survival, making Leviticus a tense, atmospheric, and claustrophobic vision of young love in a hateful world.”
