Nicolas Cage Plays the Father of Jesus in Trailer for Biblical Horror Movie “The Carpenter's Son”

Nicolas Cage is getting biblical successful The Carpenter's Son.

Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing debuted nan trailer for nan upcoming scary flick from writer-director Lotfy Nathan, which takes spot successful "remote colony successful Roman-era Egypt" that "explodes into belief warfare erstwhile a carpenter, his woman and their kid are targeted by supernatural forces," according to an charismatic synopsis.

"Joseph (Cage, 61), Mary (FKA twigs) and their teenage boy Jesus (Noah Jupe) person lived for years nether threat, clinging to their religion and traditions," nan explanation continues. "But a stopover successful a mini colony unleashes increasing chaos erstwhile a mysterious alien (Isla Johnston) tries to entice young Jesus to wantonness his devout father’s rules."

"With each propulsion of temptation, nan boy is lured into a forbidden world, arsenic a terrified Joseph realizes that a demonic powerfulness is astatine work," it adds.

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Jesus is soon followed by "violent, unnatural events," per nan synopsis, "and he originates to acquisition nightmarish visions of nan future."

"Finally, he learns nan fearsome truth astir his caller playmate, arsenic good arsenic nan child’s existent name: Satan," it concludes.

The movie's explanation notes that Nathan drew inspiration "from his Coptic Christian background" erstwhile he wrote The Carpenter's Son.

As a result, nan head "delivers a meticulously crafted, genre-bending supernatural thriller packed pinch unshakeable images of nan divine and demonic astatine war."

The Carpenter's Son is nan latest thriller for Cage, who besides made waves successful caller years successful films for illustration The Surfer and Longlegs, some released successful 2024.

Osgood Perkins, who directed nan latter, told PEOPLE past twelvemonth that Cage "didn't want to improvise” connected nan group of Longlegs, contempt being told that he could.

“I said, ‘You tin opportunity immoderate you want,' " recalled Perkins, 51. "He said, ‘No, no, no. I conscionable want to opportunity what you've written. I don't want to alteration anything.’ ”

Cage, nan filmmaker added astatine nan time, “really wanted to do a disappearing act" pinch his sinister titular villain: "He really wanted to spell nether prosthetics, which he hadn't really done, I don't think, successful immoderate movie before.”

The Carpenter's Son is successful theaters Nov. 14.