In Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus, attraction is not only forbidden; it is weaponised. The Australian filmmaker’s debut takes the language of religious shame and turns it into horror, following two teenage boys whose relationship becomes entangled with a terrifying curse. The result is a film that understands that, for queer teenagers growing up in an environment…

Power and principle sit at the heart of Elliot Tuttle’s debut feature Blue Film. This chamber drama places viewers in an intensely uncomfortable moral space and refuses to provide the reassurance, condemnation, or easy answers that most films would offer. Whether one finds that approach courageous or reckless will largely determine their reaction to the…

There are few filmmakers whose name is as synonymous with sexual provocation as Gregg Araki. For more than three decades, Araki has been poking, prodding, and occasionally setting fire to the boundaries of sex, queerness, and good taste. In his latest film – his first feature after a twelve-year hiatus – Araki returns with a lot…

Jane Schoenbrun puts the camp in Camp Miasma. There are few things more dangerous than a film obsessive with a camera, a childhood fixation and a lot to say about horror cinema. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes this premise and runs with it… through the woods, after dark, while chased by someone…

There are films you watch, understand, enjoy, and then move on with your life. And then there are these films. The kind where you reach the end, the credits roll, and you sit in complete silence, trying to work out whether you’ve just witnessed a cinematic masterpiece or suffered an elaborate prank. Films where the…