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In Theaters Now
- 2025
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 2025
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
Summary 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. But a stopove...
Directed By: Lotfy Nathan
Written By: Lotfy Nathan
In Theaters Now
- 2025
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
- 2025
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 34 m
The Carpenter's Son
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Summary 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. But a stopove...
Directed By: Lotfy Nathan
Written By: Lotfy Nathan
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
40
22% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
28% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
40
22% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
28% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Nov 11, 2025
Rife with great performances and disturbing imagery, The Carpenter’s Son transcends its trappings as a mere horror take on Christ and verges on challenging.
Nov 11, 2025
The Carpenter's Son might just be creepy enough to work for you even if you've managed to go your whole life without religion or faith. But I imagine it works even better if you've spent some time in church.
Nov 12, 2025
Describing this makes it sound like there’s more plot than there actually is, but “The Carpenter’s Son” isn’t a conventional story. It’s more of a mood piece, with a true run time of just barely 90 minutes. But it’s got Cage, and that’s the difference maker.
Nov 11, 2025
It takes dedication to make a dull movie where Nicolas Cage plays Joseph and Jesus gets into a fistfight with Satan, but The Carpenter’s Son sets to its task with devotion, if little else.
Nov 21, 2025
Though not beyond salvaging as The Carpenter’s Son offers some moments of biblical horror, including an Hieronymus Bosch-like depiction of hell, it doesn’t succeed in pushing past mild discomfort. There is still not enough to drag it down into truly blasphemous depths.
Nov 11, 2025
The Carpenter’s Son fails to even offer decent frights, unless one finds the preponderance of CGI snakes particularly scary.
Nov 11, 2025
For all its visual stylishness, The Carpenter’s Son feels like such an essentially misconceived project that it seems destined for future cult status, with audiences at midnight screenings shouting out the more outrageous lines in unison with the actors. Which may not be what the filmmaker intended, but sounds like a lot of fun.
User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
5.9
43% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
43% Mixed
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3 Ratings
14% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
5.9
43% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
43% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
14% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Nov 14, 2025
The Carpenter's Son is the kind of film that is divisive from the outset. Its very premise, revisiting the childhood of Jesus Christ through a dark and terrifying lens, is enough to arouse curiosity in some and resistance in others. Directed and written by Lotfy Nathan, the feature film is based on the Gospel of Thomas, an apocryphal text from the second century that presents little-known episodes from the early years of Christ's life. The result is a drama with hints of horror, shrouded in faith, fear, and guilt, which attempts to balance the sacred and the profane, but does not always strike the right tone.Ultimately, The Carpenter's Son is an ambitious but uneven film. It is courageous for revisiting a figure as emblematic as Jesus from a horror perspective, something few filmmakers would dare to do. At the same time, it is a feature film that seems to retreat whenever it is about to go further. The duality between faith and fear is present, but it is never explored with all the force it could have.There is much of value here: Noah Jupe's inspired performance, the engaging visuals, and Lotfy Nathan's effort to treat a sensitive subject with respect and inventiveness. But there is also an imbalance that prevents the film from reaching its full potential. The Carpenter's Son is a valid attempt to unite the sacred with the dark, an interesting experiment that, although it doesn't hold up until the end, leaves the impression that Nathan is a name to be followed in future projects.Ultimately, the film is about fear, faith, and paternal love. It speaks to the weight of a destiny no one asked for and the silence that accompanies the divine. The Carpenter's Son is neither the religious film nor the horror film one might expect; it is something in between, a strange and imperfect hybrid, but one that deserves to be seen for its boldness in attempting something new with such an ancient story.
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Nov 14, 2025
"The Carpenter’s Son" is a Biblical horror movie with interesting ideas but they just don’t seem interesting because the perspective is ****, which nullifies the film’s ability to trouble our hearts.
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Production Company
- Anonymous Content
- BlueLight
- Cinenovo
- Curious Gremlin
- Saturn Films
- Spacemaker Productions
Release Date Nov 14, 2025
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Deliver us from evil.
