WTF is a "FKA Twigs"?
Googles FKA Twigs...
Never mind. Sorry I asked.
Posted on 09/06/2025 7:05:35 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
When news broke about The Carpenter’s Son, a Bible-adjacent horror film starring Nicolas Cage as Joseph and FKA Twigs as Mary, I felt torn. On the one hand, I value creative approaches to biblical adaptation and I enjoy the horror genre – I would love to see a Bible horror film done right. On the other hand, I couldn’t help but wonder: will this movie really be interested in exploring Scripture’s characters and world or will it intentionally disrespect its biblical source material in order to denigrate Christianity and gain notoriety?
The first trailer for The Carpenter's Son dropped recently, and it raised a couple critical questions about how the film will portray Jesus. Here's my take on the trailer and the concerns it raises.
The Carpenter’s Son Trailer: Joseph, Mary, and Jesus (?)
In the trailer, Nicolas Cage plays Joseph of Nazareth, the adoptive father of Jesus. Cage, known for his over-the-top performances, looks like he’ll be delivering his typical style. In the brief clips we get, Joseph appears to be in the middle of an intense prayer. We cut away to Mary in all black (played by FKA Twigs) and also briefly to the shrouded dead body of Jesus and then we cut to something far more chilling – a young man, seemingly in agony, screaming in a voice that can only be described as demonic.
At first, the scene was disorienting. My first thought was, “Is that Jesus?” The film's title, The Carpenter's Son, implies that the story will revolve around the early life of Jesus, especially his time growing up under the care of Joseph. But the young man’s demonic screaming raises some unsettling questions. Could this demonic figure be the film’s version of Jesus?
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There is no horror movie that involves Christ that could be considered appropriate. There is lots of other material that could be used in the Bible and it would be fine.
Like the story of Judges 19-21, for example.
Cage should stay away from lightning prone areas for the foreseeable future.
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‘Bible Horror or Blasphemy?’
I’d say the later.
Definitely.
There is not one author of the new testament that was there when Jesus was born or can attest to anything that occurred in that time period. All the stories in that time period is nothing more than projection .
WTF is a "FKA Twigs"?
Googles FKA Twigs...
Never mind. Sorry I asked.
“I would love to see a Bible horror film…”
This guy’s an idiot.
Well, that’s not true.
She has a big future in horror films.
Name me one that was there please.
Same, definitely blasphemy
Yuck, yuck yuck, yuck!
Mary, Jesus’ mother, was still living when Matthew wrote his account and would have gotten her firsthand eyewitness testimony. Luke says he interviewed eyewitnesses in his account which may have included Mary. There may have been other eyewitness who saw the birth of Jesus that we are unaware of.
Many historical accounts of famous people were written by people who weren’t physically present but interviewed people who were.
And this was all written down at least 70 years after the crucifixion.So that would be about a hundred years after his birth. I am sure they got all the details exactly as it happened.
They’re using the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. I like your idea much, much better.
The synoptic Gospels were written 25-30 years after the crucifixion.
Yep, the city of lost angels will not ever let their master down.
What evidence do you have that the Gospel writers didn’t get the details exactly as it happened?
Also, there is strong evidence that Matthew’s account was written down between 50-60AD which is within living memory of possible eyewitnesses.
“Scholars date the writing of Matthew’s gospel to the late 50’s or early 60’s in the first century. This is due in part to a comment by the church father Irenaeus that “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and laying the foundations of the Church.”
(Irenaeus, “Against Heresies”, 3.1.1.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/irenaeus-book3.html (Accessed February 2, 2019)
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