The R-rated feature is billed as a horror spin on Jesus’ childhood.
Biblical horror seems something of an untapped market (have you read the Old Testament lately? Some prime material right there!), so it's exciting to see, via a new teaser from Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing, that upcoming feature The Carpenter's Son seems to be rushing in to fill that gap.
Starring Longlegs himself Nicolas Cage, FKA twigs (The Crow), Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Isla Johnston (Invasion), The Carpenter's Son, from writer/director Lofty Nathan, is billed as “a horror spin on Jesus’ childhood”, with a full logline reading:
Inspired by the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas, the film tells the dark story of a family hiding out in Roman Egypt. Known only as ‘the Boy’, the son is driven to doubt by another mysterious child and rebels against his guardian, the Carpenter, revealing inherent powers and a fate beyond his comprehension. As he exercises his own power, the Boy and his family become the target of horrors both natural and divine.
Cage plays the titular Carpenter, with twigs playing Mother, and Jupe as the Boy (no prizes for guessing who that is, by the way!)
Check out the eerie new teaser for the R-rated The Carpenter's Son below, and look out for more as we get it:
