Leviticus: horror movie plot and complete story

Leviticus is the horror and romance movie coming out. The plot focuses on Naim (Joe Bird), who has just moved to a small town in Victoria, Australia, together with his mother Arlene (Mia Wasikowska). The woman has chosen this remote place to practice her conservative Christian faith.

Here he meets Ryan (Stacy Clausen), and an attraction develops between the two, but when Naim, in a moment of jealousy and desperation, betrays Ryan in front of the community, the local pastor decides to act. He summons a "healer" (Nicholas Hope) to perform a "purification" ritual on Ryan and on Hunter, the pastor's son. What begins as a grotesque ceremony quickly transforms into something much more sinister.

The ritual releases a violent entity that takes the form of the person the victims desire most intensely. Naim and Ryan are thus pursued by an apparition that has the face of the other.

Leviticus: trailer, previews and key scenes

"What do you like about this place?" Naim asks Ryan in the released trailer; "the fact that you can make a mess?", he replies. Then the two kiss.

"Indecency, lust, desire. They must be removed immediately" says the healer during the homily. "It comes when there's no one else around. Nothing can stop it".

Leviticus: complete cast and actors

Joe Bird worked on Talk to Me; Stacy Clausen acted in the series Thrash; Mia Wasikowska is the performer in Only Lovers Left Alive and Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Nicholas Hope worked on The Goddess of 1967, The Night We Called It a Day, The Invisible Man. The direction is by Adrian Chiarella, at his debut.

Leviticus: critics' reviews

The movie was presented at the Sundance Movie Festival 2026, receiving positive reviews.

For Variety "this extraordinary directorial debut merges chilling terror with incisive social criticism".

For IndieWire "it's not a perfect horror movie, but the gloomy atmosphere makes it a disturbing experience".

For Slant Magazine "a horror story that also becomes an intense adolescent love story".

Leviticus: cinema release 

The movie is released in the United States on June 19, 2026.