Movie Review: The Carpenter's Son

Movie Review: The Carpenter's Son

NEW YORK (OSV News) – It’s hard to imagine the pitch session at which the premise of the would-be psychological thriller “The Carpenter’s Son” (Magnolia) was presented for approval. “Drawing on a 2nd-century apocryphal text,” the summary might have run, “why don’t we turn Jesus’ teenage years into the basis for a horror film?” Working from this grievously misguided idea, writer-director Lotfy Nathan and producer Nicolas Cage, who also stars, ser…

The Carpenter’s Son review

By David Dent Lotfy Nathan’s strange, often impenetrable religio-horror movie opens with a maternal scream of childbirth followed by the appearance of ‘Anno Domini’ on screen. There’s no irony here; the words denote the birth of Jesus. even though that name, and those of Joseph and Mary, are not used in the film. The unnamed carpenter (Nicolas Cage) escorts his wife (FKA twigs) and newborn baby to safety against the backdrop of Herod’s baby burn…