Nicolas Cage Stars in Trailer for Biblical Horror Movie ‘The Carpenter’s Son’
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- Nicolas Cage stars in the trailer for The Carpenter’s Son, a biblical horror film costarring FKA twigs, Noah Jupe and Isla Johnston
- The movie follows “a carpenter, his wife and their child” who “are targeted by supernatural forces,” per an official synopsis
- The Carpenter’s Son, written and directed by Lotfy Nathan, is in theaters Nov. 14
Nicolas Cage is getting biblical in The Carpenter’s Son.
Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing debuted the trailer for the upcoming horror flick from writer-director Lotfy Nathan, which takes place in “remote village in Roman-era Egypt” that “explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces,” according to an official synopsis.
“Joseph (Cage, 61), Mary (FKA twigs) and their teenage son Jesus (Noah Jupe) have lived for years under threat, clinging to their faith and traditions,” the description continues. “But a stopover in a small settlement unleashes growing chaos when a mysterious stranger (Isla Johnston) tries to entice young Jesus to abandon his devout father’s rules.”
“With every pull of temptation, the boy is lured into a forbidden world, as a terrified Joseph realizes that a demonic power is at work,” it adds.
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Jesus is soon followed by “violent, unnatural events,” per the synopsis, “and he begins to experience nightmarish visions of the future.”
“Finally, he learns the fearsome truth about his new playmate, as well as the child’s real name: Satan,” it concludes.
The movie’s description notes that Nathan drew inspiration “from his Coptic Christian background” when he wrote The Carpenter’s Son.
As a result, the director “delivers a meticulously crafted, genre-bending supernatural thriller packed with unshakeable images of the divine and demonic at war.”
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The Carpenter’s Son is the latest thriller for Cage, who also made waves in recent years in films like The Surfer and Longlegs, both released in 2024.
Osgood Perkins, who directed the latter, told PEOPLE last year that Cage “didn’t want to improvise” on the set of Longlegs, despite being told that he could.
“I said, ‘You can say whatever you want,’ ” recalled Perkins, 51. “He said, ‘No, no, no. I just want to say what you’ve written. I don’t want to change anything.’ ”
Cage, the filmmaker added at the time, “really wanted to do a disappearing act” with his sinister titular villain: “He really wanted to go under prosthetics, which he hadn’t really done, I don’t think, in any movie before.”
The Carpenter’s Son is in theaters Nov. 14.
