The Full Trailer for Nicolas Cage’s Jesus Horror Movie Is Here, and… Holy Hell

The teasers for The Carpenter’s Son thus far haven’t been shy at all about making Nicolas Cage‘s latest—a horror movie about Jesus—look extremely freaky. There was the clip that featured mostly agonized wailing, followed by the one with Cage’s instantly viral pronunciation of Satan as “Suh-tan.†So expectations were high for the full trailer, and now that it’s here, it does not disappoint.

Given the cultural temperature of the U.S. these days, you can expect some controversy to follow a movie that—while clearly framed as a horrific fantasy—explores the life of Jesus. You need only look back at Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ or the recent Hollywood Bowl production of Jesus Christ Superstar for proof that any offbeat interpretation of the Bible can become a lightning rod for protests.

That could end up being a bonus for The Carpenter’s Son, raising its profile among curious horror fans even if it draws the ire of close-minded types who feel threatened by artistic expression. “Suh-tan†works in mysterious ways, after all!

Here’s the official logline:

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 stopover in a small settlement unleashes growing chaos when a mysterious stranger (Isla Johnston) tries to entice young Jesus to abandon his devout father’s rules. With every pull of temptation, the boy is lured into a forbidden world, as a terrified Joseph realizes that a demonic power is at work. Violent, unnatural events inexplicably follow Jesus, and he begins to experience nightmarish visions of the future. Finally, he learns the fearsome truth about his new playmate, as well as the child’s real name: Satan. Writer and director Lotfy Nathan, drawing from his Coptic Christian background, delivers a meticulously crafted, genre-bending supernatural thriller packed with unshakeable images of the divine and demonic at war.

Yesterday, Magnolia Pictures also revealed the poster for The Carpenter’s Son, which uses maybe the most familiar quote from the Lord’s Prayer (at least, as far as horror heads are concerned) as its tagline. It also goes close in on various eyeballs to show us that every character in this movie is going to be haunted as hell, or perhaps haunted by hell.

Deliver us from evil.

THE CARPENTER’S SON. Trailer tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Exu5k18b3O

— Magnolia Pictures (@MagnoliaPics) September 30, 2025

Nicolas Cage leads a cast that also includes FKA twigs, Noah Jupe, and Isla Johnston; The Carpenter’s Son is written and directed by Lotfy Nathan. It hits theaters this fall.

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