Desire turns dangerous in "Leviticus," a 2026 horror-thriller from Australia and the United States that folds romance and science fiction into a story about two teenage boys hunted by something that wears the shape of the person each of them wants.
What is Leviticus about?
The premise inverts the usual monster movie: the threat here does not look like a threat. A violent entity stalking two teenage boys takes on the form of the person each of them desires most, which happens to be each other. That single idea does a lot of work, turning ordinary teenage longing into the exact thing that makes them vulnerable, and forcing both boys to question what they are looking at every time the other one appears. Set against an Australian backdrop, the film uses horror mechanics to dramatize something more intimate: the fear of wanting someone, and the fear of what that wanting might cost. Genre elements of thriller and science fiction weave through the horror spine, keeping the entity's nature and rules part of the tension rather than settled fact from the opening scene.
About the cast
Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen anchor the film alongside Mia Wasikowska, Nicholas Hope, Tyallah Bullock, Ewen Leslie, Jeremy Blewitt and Davida McKenzie, a cast drawn largely from Australian film and television. The ensemble gives the story's small, close-quarters world several distinct adult and teenage presences to push against.
Context & significance
"Leviticus" is directed by Adrian Chiarella and produced across Australia and the United States, running a tight 88 minutes that suits its horror-thriller pacing. The film's genre mix of horror, thriller, romance and science fiction places it alongside a wave of recent genre films that use supernatural threat as a lens on adolescent identity rather than as spectacle for its own sake.
Watching Leviticus on Ktime
"Leviticus" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting viewers watch in whichever language suits them. Anyone can read the film's page without logging in; watching the film itself just needs a free K-Time account, part of the platform's Farsi-language streaming experience built for Iranian audiences abroad.