Adrian Chiarella
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…it’s not a huge spoiler to say that the film owes a debt to 2014’s It Follows. Where that film used an invisible and seemingly inescapable aggressor as a metaphor for sexually transmitted disease, here the allegory is homosexuality.
La película encuentra ahí una conexión evidente con It Follows, no solo por la lógica de una amenaza sobrenatural persistente, sino por la relación entre deseo, cuerpo y muerte.
…the idea of conversion therapy is turned into a literal, terrifying and violent real life curse in the spirit of IT FOLLOWS.
…it evolves in a way reminiscent of It Follows…
…some viewers will be drawn to make preconceived comparisons to Smile and It Follows. But while those former films, particularly It Follows, delve into the ramifications of physical intimacy, Leviticus is separate, dialing in on the consequences of emotional connection.
You’ll hear many comparisons to genre flicks like It Follows and Smile, but director Adrian Chiarella clearly understands that within his feature debut.
When Naim is witnessing the entity attack others, the special effects are outstanding and is reminiscent of, well, “The Entity” (1982)…
…with the movie also often reminiscent of Sidney J. Furie’s The Entity, which is my pick for one of the most disturbing horror films ever made.
Initially, walking into Leviticus, I was reminded of the 2014 film It Follows and, to a lesser extent, the early eighties classic The Entity. At its core, the film does follow the template established in those films.
Religious conversion therapy is a topic that has previously been explored on screen in dramas like The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (2018) and Boy Erased (2018) and documentaries including Netflix’s Pray Away (2021).
…his combination of love challenged by small town bigotry with supernatural horror like "Boy Erased" by way of "It Follows."
We’ve had our share of films about gay conversion therapy, such as the heavy dramas Boy Erased and The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, the campy But I’m A Cheerleader, and even the slasher film, They/Them, but Leviticus, the feature debut of writer-director Adrian Chiarella, finds its own lane by chillingly traversing such genres as coming of age, romance, and horror.
Leviticus pertenece a una tradición particularmente fértil del cine australiano de terror, heredera de películas como The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Cargo y Talk to Me.
Like Jennifer Kent’s “The Babadook” and the Philippou Brother’s “Talk to Me”, Chiarella’s “Leviticus” is another great example of the thriving horror scene in Australia that needs to be recognized more.
Babadook…
…the ominous, insidious score from Jed Kurzel (The Babadook)…
Composer Jed Kurzel's ("The Babadook," "Nitram")…
I picked up notes of It Follows, Carrie, Spiral, and The VVitch, among others…
…channeling a hint of Carrie’s Margaret White who is “here on the Lord’s work, spreadin’ the gospel of God’s salvation.”
You’ll hear many comparisons to genre flicks like It Follows and Smile, but director Adrian Chiarella clearly understands that within his feature debut.
…some viewers will be drawn to make preconceived comparisons to Smile and It Follows.
Blood trickles down the drain as a subversive ode to Psycho…
…or all of these (Night of the Living Dead) and many more…
After a scene of convulsion, reminiscent of THE EXORCIST, Ryan and Hunter are both pursued by a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire the most…
…misogyny (The Stepford Wives)…
Frank N. Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)…
…mass media propaganda (They Live, Videodrome)…
…mass media propaganda (They Live, Videodrome)…
…class disparities (Society, The Purge)…
Yet while audiences may expect something like the horror stylings of fellow Australian filmmaker the Philippou brothers (Talk to Me, Bring Her Back), Leviticus delivers something closer to the social realism of Romper Stomper or Snowtown.
…more than a few horror and horror-tinged films (like Teeth, Species, and It Follows) actively foreground the connection between these two fundamental concepts…
We’ve had our share of films about gay conversion therapy, such as the heavy dramas Boy Erased and The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, the campy But I’m A Cheerleader, and even the slasher film, They/Them, but Leviticus, the feature debut of writer-director Adrian Chiarella, finds its own lane by chillingly traversing such genres as coming of age, romance, and horror.
Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)…
Leviticus pertenece a una tradición particularmente fértil del cine australiano de terror, heredera de películas como The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Cargo y Talk to Me.
…class disparities (Society, The Purge)…