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Vigilant Citizen – vigilantcitizen.com Jan 30. 2026

Warning: Apocryphal Spoilers Ahead!

When The Carpenter’s Son was released in 2025, it was described as “Bible horror” involving teenage Jesus. This fact alone was already a strong indicator that something would be terribly wrong with that movie.

Then, it was announced that the Virgin Mary would be played by … FKA Twigs?

A viral tweet indicated that FKA Twigs as the Virgin Mary wouldn’t work because the singer/actress has an “iPhone face.” While I’m not sure what’s that supposed to mean, I also understand exactly what’s its supposed to mean. Also, Mary was not half-Jamaican. Just saying.

The blaring miscasting continued with Joseph being played by Nicolas Cage. It is seriously ridiculous. This means that throughout the movie, we’re watching FKA Twigs (and her iPhone face) speak with a British accent while Nicolas Cage (who is constantly freaking out) yells in an American accent. None of it is remotely believable, and this might very well be by design.

Indeed, The Carpenter’s Son is not about being believable or even entertaining; it is about desecrating the Holy Family and Christianity as a whole in a succession of highly symbolic scenes.

The symbolic clues that pop up before the movie even begins.

The movie was produced by Nicolas Cage’s company Saturn films.

As explained in previous articles, Saturn is esoterically associated with Satan. Saturn (Cronus) represents the limitations of the material world, as opposed to the divine light of the sun. In various mythologies, Saturn was associated with ancient deities such as Moloch and Baal, and then merged with Pan (the horned goat) to influence the modern image of the Devil.

Nicolas Cage’s highly occult pyramid tombstone, featuring the hermetic phrase “Omina Ab Uno” (Everything From One), indicates that the actor is well-versed in occult symbolism. Relevant fact: Cage was attacked by a swarm of bees in one of the caves intended to be a filming location.

In short, the movie’s motivations were not very Christian. Although the movie is described as a “biblical thriller,” none of its story appears in the Bible. Instead, it was loosely inspired by the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an apocryphal text from the 2nd century which was described as “inauthentic and heretical” by early Christian writers.

Written by an unknown author, The Infancy Gospel of Thomas describes the life of the child Jesus from the ages of five to twelve, as he experiences bizarre, supernatural, and even malevolent events. For instance, the text contains a few stories where Jesus uses a curse to kill children who transgress him. He also blinds his neighbours blind as retaliation for complaining about his family.

The movie’s writer and director, Lotfy Nathan, was clearly inspired by this “evil Jesus” narrative. However, he took some great liberties with the story, adding Satan as a main character, even though the text makes no mention of him. Furthermore, the Infancy Gospel ends with Jesus at age 12, who is fully aware of his divine mission. However, in The Carpenter’s Son, Jesus is 15, and he’s very angry and confused.

The rest of the movie is pretty much the director doing whatever he wanted with the Holy Family as characters in a horror movie. The result is … horrific.

Unholy Family

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