Nicolas Cage’s controversial film about Jesus accused of ‘turning scripture into horror’
It's been called 'blasphemous' and 'disgusting'.
Nicolas Cage’s new biblical horror film has outraged some fans who have labelled it ‘blasphemous’ and ‘disgusting’.
The Carpenter’s Son stars Cage as the Carpenter (aka Joseph), FKA twigs as Mother (aka Mary) and Noah Jupe as the Boy (aka Jesus).
But offence has been taken at writer-director Lofty Nathan basing his upcoming horror movie on a Gnostic Christian text, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which covers Jesus’s childhood.
Debuting its trailer on Wednesday, The Carpenter’s Son sees a remote village in Roman-era Egypt explode into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their son Jesus are targeted by supernatural forces after he uses his mysterious abilities.
Cage begins the trailer with a pious narration, saying, ‘Let my faith endure. Faith, my always strength to bear against the devil itself,’ before clouds darken ominously.
The Boy is seen resurrecting a cricket in his palm as the Carpenter, against whom he has started rebelling, admits: ‘He bears a power he cannot understand, a power I cannot contain.’
