Synopsis
Deliver us from evil.
A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.
Directed by Lotfy Nathan
A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.
Segredos do Deserto, El Elegido del Mal, 목수의 아들, Sombras no Deserto, Син Теслі, Syn przeznaczenia, 木匠之子, Oğul, El Hijo del Carpintero, Сын плотника, پسر نجار, Синът на дърводелеца, Dailidės sūnus, בן הנגר, O Filho do Carpinteiro, Az ács fia
A hopelessly inert religious horror film based on the apocryphal “Infancy Gospel of Thomas” (as opposed to the four canonical gospels of The New Testament, which are obviously all composed of nothing but hard facts), Lotfy Nathan’s “The Carpenter’s Son” begins with a premise so crystalline that even a skeptical heathen like me can appreciate its truth: It would have been absolutely terrifying if the son of God suddenly rocked up on this mortal coil. Beautiful, too, at times, but also terrifying. For everyone.
For his Mother (FKA Twigs, her power as an artist wasted in a movie that only wants her for her pout), whose steadfast faith in her infant provenance only makes her more afraid of the baby-burning…
no one talking about nicolas cage’s range this man literally went from being a devil worshipping serial killer to jesus’ father
I’ve never seen so many flies in a movie. No one even went to swat them away once.
woke cinema is so back! jesus being a curly haired iphone faced twink and satan being a non-binary icon!