NEON In Talks to Acquire Sundance Smash ‘Leviticus’ [Exclusive]
The Sundance Film Festival is in full swing, and ironically, the winter chill is hammering the East Coast while festgoers enjoy a nice breeze.
Even with Shudder having preemptively acquired Saccharine ahead of the festival, it’s been an unusually quiet weekend until now.
DREAD CENTRAL can exclusively report that NEON is in heavy negotiations to land Adrian Chiarella‘s chilling Leviticus, which follows two star-crossed teenage boys who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other. Deadline confirms that NEON is in exclusive talks as of this writing.
The film, hailing from Australia, just had its World Premiere, and we rounded up reviews from around the community.
THR writes that the horror is “a solemn and frightening acknowledgment of that reality, albeit one allegorized into supernatural horror,” while adding that “Leviticus has enough gore and jumpy moments to qualify it as a proper horror film. But its true scariness is of the forlorn kind…”
Indiewire‘s Natalie Winkelman calls it a “phenomenally entertaining horror debut that plays like an episode of Heated Rivalry ghoulishly crossed with It Follows.” She adds: “Leviticus is not a perfect horror film…But the film’s moody atmosphere — including a soundtrack full of clanks and bangs — makes it an enjoyably disquieting ride.”
NEON also made a splash this weekend, announcing 4 X 4: The Event, filmmaker Alex Ullom’s highly sought-after sophomore feature that will begin filming later this year. In the high-concept horror film, eight contestants enter an illegal sensory-assault livestream where they must kill or be killed using only what they can order online.
Watch for Leviticus release news as it comes in.
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