{"id":2252939,"date":"2026-01-27T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2252939"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:55:24","slug":"leviticus-review-a-queer-specific-supernatural-concept-drives-brilliant-horror-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/leviticus-review-a-queer-specific-supernatural-concept-drives-brilliant-horror-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Leviticus\u2019 Review: A Queer-Specific Supernatural Concept Drives Brilliant Horror Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201cI want it to look like you,\u201d resonates as the most romantic line exchanged between the two young men at the center of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39143902\/\">Leviticus<\/a>,\u201d a tightly conceived, gripping queer horror that reaches for unassuming brilliance through a supernatural premise that\u2019s as terrifying as it is thematically relevant. The statement implies that even if their fate is to be haunted, likely to death, by an entity that takes the form of the person they are most attracted to, they would choose for that malevolent force to personify each other. What is love if not a willingness to fight another person\u2019s demons alongside them?<\/p>\n<p>Titled after the book in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060164\/\">Bible<\/a> that features what some devotees interpret as a condemnation of homosexuality, calling it an \u201cabomination,\u201d this outstanding debut from writer-director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3184288\/\">Adrian Chiarella<\/a> organically marries blood-curling fright with incisive social commentary. He joins a large contingent of accomplished Australian genre&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI want it to look like you,\u201d resonates as the most romantic line exchanged between the two young men at the center of \u201cLeviticus,\u201d a tightly conceived, gripping queer horror that reaches for unassuming brilliance through a supernatural premise that\u2019s as terrifying as it is thematically relevant. The statement implies that even if their fate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2252939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Leviticus-Review-A-Queer-Specific-Supernatural-Concept-Drives-Brilliant-Horror-Romance.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252941,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252939\/revisions\/2252941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}