Opening Weekend
Break-even · 2.2xBudget$3.5M
Worldwide Gross$7.6M
Leviticus earns a 9/10 woke score because its entire horror premise hinges on a same-sex teen romance battling religious bigotry, with the monster serving as a direct stand-in for anti-LGBTQ oppression. Skip it if you want storytelling over identity politics.
The film's core premise centers on two teenage boys, Naim (Joe Bird) and Ryan (Stacy Clausen), whose mutual desire summons a violent supernatural entity that takes each other's form, directly tying the horror to their queer romance amid persecution from a religious community and families.
Director Adrian Chiarella has repeatedly stated in interviews that he set out to make a horror movie where 'the fear was homophobia,' exploring internalized and externalized homophobia as the central metaphor, with the entity summoned by religious forces as a blunt instrument critiquing traditional norms and faith-based oppression. This framing makes progressive identity politics foundational rather than incidental, with the romance and monster concept collapsing without the explicit focus on same-sex attraction and anti-LGBTQ bigotry as the driving conflict.
We've run a full content analysis on Leviticus and scored it 9/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into Leviticus's overall score.
Wokeometer focuses on ideological content rather than traditional ratings (violence, language, etc.). Leviticus is rated R. For a full picture, combine our woke analysis with the age ratingto decide if it's right for your family.
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