US EditionThe Carpenter's Son Review
The film blends horror and biblical drama to portray Jesus’ teenage struggles with temptation and family conflict, drawing on Orthodox Coptic texts and a $5 million production budget.
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‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Review: Nicolas Cage Stars In Biblical Horror Mashup As Teenage Jesus Hangs With The Wrong Influencer
You have to give writer-director Lofty Nathan points for originality. His new film, The Carpenter’s Son, is not just any standard telling of the oft-told story of Joseph and Mary and their son, Jesus, but rather a speculation of his teenage years, his conflicts with his devoutly religious father, his growing pains and particularly his temptations as he runs with the wrong crowd, notably a determined Satan in the form of a teenage girl. The pas…
The Carpenter's Son Review
The Carpenter’s Son will be released in theaters on November 14.The Carpenter’s Son is a religious drama knocking on the door of effective psychological horror. Written and directed by Lotfy Nathan, the period piece is loosely based on the non-canonical Infancy Gospel of Thomas (written, as the opening crawl denotes, to retroactively fill in the gaps of Jesus’s life years after his death) and seeks to re-center the oft-ignored Joseph (the legal …
Shortly before the official release of The Carpenter's Son, starring Nicolas Cage as Joseph, the first reviews have started rolling in. And many can't believe what they're seeing.
Movie Review – The Carpenter’s Son (2025)
Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Movie Review – The Carpenter’s Son (2025) The Carpenter’s Son, 2025. Written and Directed by Lotfy Nathan. Starring Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe, FKA twigs, Isla Johnston, Souheila Yacoub, and Kaiti Manolidaki. 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. Inspired by events in the Infancy Gos…
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