Sometimes, a Nicolas Cage-starring oddity will break through and catch mainstream attention. That happened with Mandy and Pig , keeping Cage’s cult bona fides alive even as he starred in bigger (but still weird) films with heftier marketing budgets, like Longlegs and Dream Scenario .

But sometimes, a worthy but daring Cage film will slip through the cracks. Not enough people saw 2024’s The Surfer , for instance—and it seems that despite its out-there premise , The Carpenter’s Son also failed to achieve much notice. That may change, however, now that it’s on digital. It also would make for some delightfully subversive holiday movie programming.

Now available on Apple TV, Prime Video, Fandango, and more (see platforms here ), writer-director Lotfy Nathan’s The Carpente

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