The Carpenter's Son
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Synopsis
A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces in The Carpenter’s Son. Joseph (Nicolas Cage), Mary (FKA twigs) and their teenage son Jesus (Noah Jupe) have lived for years under threat, clinging to their faith and traditions.
Cast
- Nicolas Cage
- Noah Jupe
- FKA twigs
- Isla Johnston
- Souheila Yacoub
- Penelope Markopoulou
- Orestis Paliadelis
- Elena Topalidou
- Manolis Mavromatakis
- Thekla Gaiti
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"The Carpenter's Son" delivers a provocative religious horror premise with Nicolas Cage as Joseph and FKA Twigs as Mary, but audiences find it frustratingly inert despite its crystalline concept of a terrifying young Jesus with deadly powers. While viewers appreciate Cage's range and the film's bold biblical reimagining, most feel the movie is too afraid of its own provocative concept to deliver genuine scares or meaningful commentary.
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- Nov 13, 2025
Let’s all have an accent and not tell Nicolas Cage
sophNov 13, 2025of course they made satan nonbinary as hell 🙄
evieNov 13, 2025A hopelessly inert religious horror film based on the apocryphal “Infancy Gospel of Thomas” (as opposed to the four canonical gospels of The New Testament, which are obviously all composed of nothing but hard facts), Lotfy Nathan’s “The Carpenter’s Son” begins with a…
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no one talking about nicolas cage’s range this man literally went from being a devil worshipping serial killer to jesus’ father
jacobNov 14, 2025a lot of people who have never opened a bible in their life are about to get real mad about this one
-ˏˋ mak ˊˎ-Dec 11, 2025Was waiting the whole movie for Jesus and Satan to kiss and fall in love.
Horror Syndrome - Nov 13, 2025
It was awesome when Jesus used his death ray vision on that guy
Freyja TDec 11, 2025Biblical Brightburn
JosephKNov 13, 2025I’ve never seen so many flies in a movie. No one even went to swat them away once.
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- zxki dislikedThe Carpenter's Son
I love how experimental Nicolas Cage's filmography is, so I'm always ready to watch whatever he's in. Some are excellent, some not so much, but this? Terrible. The performances are great, the casting is awful, the production is amazing, the cinematography is restrained, the story is boring, the…
Clay Werner is "meh" onThe Carpenter's Son4.4 - I’m not sure this will be as divisive as one might expect, because all sides should find it pretty bad, though for different reasons. The concept is where this shines. Turning an apocryphal Gospel into a version of horror is a fantastic angle to attempt, at face value. I doubt there are…
Giuseppe likedThe Carpenter's Son7/10
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Metacritic
Nov 25, 2025
This is not the messiah. Nor is it a very naughty boy. There was an opportunity for a truly original spin on the so-called Greatest Story Ever Told here, but The Carpenter’s Son pulls its punches to make a rather rote horror that amounts to little.
John Nugent
Empire
Nov 14, 2025
It’s all so hard to define not because it’s too brave and original to fit into the system, but because it’s never all that clear that anyone involved knows what the hell they’re making. Whatever their answers might be, I’m positive that Nathan and Cage didn’t aim to deliver something quite so dull.
Benjamin Lee
The Guardian
Nov 13, 2025
To graft the story of Jesus onto the template of a genre film is, if blasphemous to the faithful, and mainly just silly to everyone else.
Brandon Yu
The New York Times
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