Our First Take a look at Nicolas Cage’s Jesus Horror Film Is 20 Seconds of Agony

Nicolas Cage has turn into his personal style at this level, and for each dangerous triumph (Longlegs, Dream Scenario, Mandy) or intriguing lurch into the edgier fringes of the mainstream (Renfield, the upcoming Spider-Noir collection), there have been a number of misfires. It stays to be seen the place The Carpenter’s Son will fall, however the premise is bonkers sufficient to make us concentrate. Sure, that is the Jesus horror film, and the primary teaser is right here. It’s brief, but it surely’s nonetheless extraordinarily unnerving.

We first realized of this movie over a yr in the past, when Deadline defined it could discover “the not often informed story of the childhood of Jesus with a horror take,” noting that writer-director Lotfy Nathan drew “inspiration from the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas for the screenplay. Relationship again to the 2nd century AD, the textual content recounts the childhood of Jesus.”

We additionally received an official synopsis at the moment: “The Carpenter’s Son tells the darkish story of a household hiding out in Roman Egypt. The son, recognized solely as ‘the Boy,’ is pushed to doubt by one other mysterious youngster and rebels in opposition to his guardian, the Carpenter, revealing inherent powers and a destiny past his comprehension. As he workouts his personal energy, the Boy and his household turn into the goal of horrors, pure and divine.”

FKA twigs (The Crow) performs the mom character; Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) is the Boy. Souheila Yacoub (Dune: Half Two) can be within the forged. However that teaser is all Cage, presumably taking part in the Carpenter, reacting to the “pure and divine” horrors swirling round his dirty existence. The flies buzzing on the finish are an particularly eerie contact.

The Carpenter’s Son hits theaters this fall, and we’ll be curious to see if it eclipses the pious but notably grotesque The Ardour of the Christ as essentially the most horror-filled tackle Jesus but to hit screens.

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