Leviticus: deadly desire stalks queer teens in this rural Australian horror

By Matt Jacobsen, Senior Lecturer in Film History in the School of Society and Environment, Queen Mary University of London

You can imagine being a queer teen in a Christian fundamentalist community in rural Australia is not an easy ride. In his debut feature Leviticus, writer and director Adrian Chiarella imagines how much harder that would be if there were also supernatural forces conspiring against you.

The film centres on the burgeoning romance between 17-year-old Naim – played by Joe Bird, who recently impressed in the wonderful Australian horror film Talk to Me (2022) – and Ryan (Stacy Clausen). The pair are forced…

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