{"id":546205,"date":"2026-04-23T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546205\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:07:15","slug":"neons-conversion-therapy-horror-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546205\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon&#8217;s Conversion Therapy Horror Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/neon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_neon\" data-tag=\"neon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neon<\/a> has released the trailer for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/leviticus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leviticus\" data-tag=\"leviticus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leviticus<\/a>,\u201d the highly anticipated conversion therapy horror film that had a buzzy debut at Sundance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/adrian-chiarella\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adrian-chiarella\" data-tag=\"adrian-chiarella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Chiarella<\/a>. According to the official plot description, \u201cLeviticus\u201d is about \u201ctwo star-crossed teenage boys [who] must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most \u2014 each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeviticus\u201d stars Joe Bird as Naim and Stacy Clausen as Ryan, the film\u2019s two lead characters. Mia Wasikowska also appears as Naim\u2019s emotionally stunted mother, joined by Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie and Davida McKenzie.<\/p>\n<p>Originally premiering in the midnight section at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, \u201cLeviticus\u201d was bought by Neon for a sales price <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/markets-festivals\/neon-sundance-conversion-therapy-horror-film-leviticus-1236642165\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported to be in the seven-figure range<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/reviews\/leviticus-review-horror-conversion-therapy-1236642228\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety\u2019s review of \u201cLeviticus\u201d<\/a> described the movie as \u201ca tightly conceived, gripping queer horror that reaches for unassuming brilliance through a supernatural premise that\u2019s as terrifying as it is thematically relevant.\u201d Marked as Critic\u2019s Pick for 2026, the review further stated: \u201c\u2019Leviticus\u2019 does seem bound to earn a place in the pantheon of notable queer horror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Titled after the book in the Bible that features what some devotees interpret as a condemnation of homosexuality, the film combines gripping horror with social commentary, set in a small and desolate Australian town that\u2019s filled with a close-knit and Christian community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeviticus\u201d was produced by A Causeway Films and Salmira Productions. The film\u2019s producers include Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton and Hannah Ngo. The executive producers are Salman Al-Rashid, Sam Frohman, Simmons Frazier, Daniel Negret, Robert Connolly, Liz Kearney, Dale Roberts and Wasikowska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeviticus\u201d is in theaters on June 19.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neon has released the trailer for \u201cLeviticus,\u201d the highly anticipated conversion therapy horror film that had a buzzy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[188011,96,146905,2839,9077,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adrian-chiarella","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-leviticus","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-neon","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}