Neon Buying Sundance Conversion Therapy Horror Film ‘Leviticus’

Neon, the indie label behind “Parasite” and “Anora,” is inking certainly one of the first offers of this 12 months’s Sundance Film Festival and shopping for “Leviticus,” a buzzy horror movie about conversion therapy. The pact hasn’t been finalized, however sources peg the sales value in the seven-figure vary.

The movie is the feature directorial debut of writer-director Adrian Chiarella. According to the official plot description, “Leviticus” is about “two star-crossed teenage boys [who] must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.” The forged contains Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen Jeremy Blewitt and Ewen Leslie. It premiered in the midnight part.

Critics embraced the image, with The Guardian writing: “In many increasingly overcrowded fields – trauma horror, curse horror, gay horror, Sundance horror – ‘Leviticus’ stands tall.” Indiewire in contrast the movie to “Heated Rivalry” and “It Follows” — the hybrid we didn’t know we needed!

It’s been a glacial marketplace for sales at this 12 months’s competition, however issues are lastly heating up as studio executives depart Park City. Olivia Wilde’s “The Invite” has sparked a bidding battle, with A24 and Focus Features locked in a tense fight for the rights to the relationship comedy. “Wicker,” with Olivia Wilde, and “Josephine” with Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, are also drawing curiosity from consumers. But studios are being more cautious. The indie box workplace is in a rut and many, many Sundance films are big hits with competition crowds and ignored by the basic public after they lastly make it to theaters.

WME Independent is promoting the rights to “Leviticus.”