Neon in Talks to Acquire Queer Horror ‘Leviticus’ from ‘Talk to Me’ Producers

Fresh off its world premiere at Sundance on Friday, Neon has entered into talks to acquire the Australia queer horror film Leviticus.

Deadline reports that the deal is worth around $5 million for the global rights, sans Australia and New Zealand.

Joe Bird (Talk to Me) and Stacy Clausen play star-crossed teenage boys who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.

Mia Wasikowska (Crimson Peak) co-stars, marking her return to the screen after a three-year break, alongside Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie (The Nightingale), and Davida McKenzie (Silent Night).

Writer-director Adrian Chiarella makes his feature debut on the project. Samantha Jennings (Talk to Me, Bring Her Back), Kristina Ceyton (The Babadook, Talk to Me), and Hannah Ngo produce.

“Leviticus is a strong debut with an incisive voice at the helm,” Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of Sundance. “We care deeply about Naim and Ryan’s survival, making Leviticus a tense, atmospheric, and claustrophobic vision of young love in a hateful world.”