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The Carpenter's Son
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- Official Trailer (01:44)
- Teaser Trailer 2 (00:40)
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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
Moviegoers are saying
"The Carpenter's Son" presents a provocative premise about teenage Jesus discovering his powers, but audiences find it frustratingly inert despite Nicolas Cage's committed performance and genuinely creepy moments. While some appreciate the bold concept and aren't offended by the religious horror angle, most agree the execution fails to match the crystalline premise's potential.
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- Nov 13, 2025
A 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…
davidehrlichNov 13, 2025of course they made satan nonbinary as hell 🙄
evieno one talking about nicolas cage’s range this man literally went from being a devil worshipping serial killer to jesus’ father
jacob - Nov 13, 2025
Let’s all have an accent and not tell Nicolas Cage
sophiareynosoNov 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-Nov 13, 2025It was awesome when Jesus used his death ray vision on that guy
Freyja Thompson - Nov 13, 2025
I’ve never seen so many flies in a movie. No one even went to swat them away once.
Khalani12Nov 13, 2025"Is this not the carpenter's son?" A grittier and more horror version of Baby Billy's Teenjus for all my fellow Righteous Gemstone fans. In all seriousness, as a Christian myself, the premise is actually pretty interesting. A coming of age movie about Jesus as a teenager…
Rilo44Nov 12, 2025If you ever wanted to see a story about what if Jesus was tempted by Satan but he was a young boy who got super powers and his father played by Nic Cage was oppressing him and it was the time of Roman’s and pestilence then I’ve got the movie for you. To be honest the movie…
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4.4 - 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…
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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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