Leviticus, the feature directorial debut of writer-director Adrian Chiarella, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2026. Following its premiere, Neon acquired distribution rights for the film, which was subsequently released in theaters on June 19, 2026.

The film is set in a remote Christian community in Australia. In the movie, a supernatural entity appears to the protagonists in the form of the person they desire most. Naim's mother enlists a deliverance minister to perform a purification ritual on Naim.

Chiarella stated, "I'd noticed there was this shift in the air in the last five or 10 years, at least in Australia, of a regression of a lot of the rights LGBTQIA+ people had fought so hard for." He also said, "Horror is the genre of fear." Regarding the film's development, Chiarella noted, "It was being tuned all the way through, from the scripting stage right through to the rehearsal, with the actors and figuring out how we're going to convey this love story between the two of them, but also how do we convey this monster." He added, "Once I cast them, I just encouraged them to hang out a lot together."

Joe Bird portrays Naim in the film, and Stacy Clausen plays Ryan. Bird said, "But what attracted me to this role is that it wasn't something I'd done before." He explained, "This is a church town that they're in and the majority of the town is obviously against homosexuality." Bird previously portrayed a young boy possessed by an evil spirit in the 2022 film Talk to Me.

Clausen addressed questions surrounding the entity in the film. "The main question I wanted to answer was: 'What was it feeding on? What was it after?'" Clausen said. He explained, "What we landed on was that this monster was feeding on their desire and trying to elicit an emotional real response." Mia Wasikowska portrays Naim's mother, and Jeremy Blewitt plays Hunter. Leviticus also screened at the South by Southwest and Overlook Film Festivals.