| Neon | Release Date: June 19, 2026 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
Screen RantJun 19, 2026
There have been plenty of horror movies about conversion therapy, but none like this one. Though it is at times terrifying, capturing the isolation of the queer experience with bone-deep emotion, the first-time director's new film is a surprisingly tender look at the shapes love and demons can take.
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Jun 18, 2026
Leviticus announces Adrian Chiarella as a filmmaker of remarkable confidence and control. It's a horror film that trusts its audience, trusts its characters, and trusts the power of what remains unseen. In doing so, it becomes one of the year's most unsettling — and impressive — genre debuts.
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AwardsWatchJun 19, 2026
The Book of Leviticus is one of rules and wrath, demanding a high specificity to purity in order to live according to God’s ethical standards. Recently, the Book has become a pick and choose index of Old Testament codes that religious zealots use to condemn others, namely the homophobic interpretations of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. For his feature debut, writer-director Chiarella has sharply crafted an empathetic and inventive rebuttal to the distortions of the text with an added spin that highlights the destructive, inhumane effects of conversion therapy.
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Jun 18, 2026
Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus is an involving, meaningful, and legitimately creepy horror movie. Chiarella’s story about gay youth being punished for simply being the way they are is emotional and thoughtful while also simply working well as a horror story, blending the real-life prejudices that inspired it with the supernatural curse laid upon its characters in a highly effective manner.
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Jun 18, 2026
We know from innumerable slashers that when a character is alone, trouble is around the corner. But “Leviticus,” with its gloomy, isolated setting and dogmatic parents, manages to turn this vulnerability into an existential issue, too. To make matters worse, the only glimmers of human warmth our boys receive are from each other — and that opens yet another can of worms.
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Jun 17, 2026
It’s the sort of feature debut that earns a “watch this space” tag — a cinematic statement complemented and enhanced by one hell of an eye for composition, and two performances that toe the line between torrid and terrified. But it also marks a turning point in terms of queer horror that simultaneously inspires firsthand fear for its protagonists and loathing for both its supernatural and human monsters.
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