Good advice. Immediately ignored.

Leviticus is heading to cinemas June 19th via NEON, and the newly released trailer makes it clear this isn’t your standard ‘things go bump in the night situation’, it’s more ‘your emotions might kill you’.

Written and directed by Adrian Chiarella, the film centres on two teenage boys played by Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen, whose situation goes from complicated to actively dangerous when a violent entity enters the picture. But this entity doesn’t just haunt, it adapts, taking the form of the person you desire most. In this case, that means each other, which turns an already intense connection into something a lot more lethal.

Now it’s not just about surviving, it’s about figuring out whether the person in front of you is actually them, or something wearing their face like a very convincing mask. Not an ideal situation for communication, trust, or staying alive.

Backing them up (or potentially making things worse, depending on how this plays out) are Mia Wasikowska, Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie, and Davida McKenzie, filling out a cast that’s stepping into something built on identity, desire, and the kind of threat you can’t just run from, nk matter how many times you’re advised to.

The film carries an R rating for bloody violence, language, sexual content, and teen drug use, so it’s not pulling its punches or taking the easy way out.

June 19th looks like it’s bringing trust issues with teeth.