New Trailers! The Carpenter’s Son, Last Days, We Bury the Dead, Psycho Killer, Jay Kelly and Pillion
🎥 Nicolas Cage faces biblical horror, Justin Lin explores a missionary tragedy, Daisy Ridley battles the undead, George Clooney confronts the trappings of fame and more!
🎥 “The Carpenter’s Son” Trailer: Nicolas Cage Faces Unholy Terrors as Joseph in Lotfy Nathan’s Biblical Horror with FKA Twigs as Mary and Noah Jupe as Teenage Jesus — In Theaters November 14th
When we think of biblical films, perhaps the first images that come to mind are those from the classic Charlton Heston–starring epics of the 1950s and ‘60s: The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. These staples ran on television for decades, eventually giving way to the radically different interpretations of the 1970s and ‘80s, such as Jesus Christ Superstar and The Last Temptation of Christ. The idea here is that whenever there’s a wave of traditional biblical adaptations, sooner or later a few films come along to retell these stories in a more unconventional, provocative, or even subversive way.
And so with that: here comes Nicolas Cage in another wild performance as Joseph, the carpenter, in this new biblical feature film that leans into the horror and supernatural aspects of Jesus’s story. Popstar-actress FKA Twigs (The Crow Remake, Honey Boy) takes on the role of Mary, Joseph’s wife and mother of Jesus, while Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place, Honey Boy) steps into the role of Jesus during his early teenage years.
Set in a stylized Roman Egypt, The Carpenter’s Son follows Joseph (Cage), Mary (Twigs), and their teenage son Jesus (Jupe) as they travel through a remote village that seems cursed by dark, inexplicable forces. What begins as an ordinary stopover spirals into chaos when a mysterious child (Isla Johnston, from Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit) befriends Jesus and begins luring him away from his father’s teachings. Soon, the boy is plagued by violent visions and unnatural events that leave even Joseph questioning whether his family is protected—or already damned.
Lotfy Nathan, the acclaimed filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary 12 O’Clock Boys, writes and directs the film, drawing on his Coptic Christian roots as he blends biblical lore with horror-tinged elements. The result is an atmospheric thriller steeped in dread, temptation, paranoia, and the eternal tug-of-war between divine faith and demonic influence.
With Cage leaning into Joseph’s mounting terror as a father who can’t shield his child from unseen evil, and Jupe tasked with portraying a boy whose future is both miraculous and cursed, The Carpenter’s Son will no doubt be a much talked-about biblical film when it lands in theaters November 14th.
🎥 “Last Days” Trailer: Director Justin Lin Returns to Indie Roots with Sky Yang, Radhika Apte, and Ken Leung in a Tragic True-Life Missionary Drama — In Theaters October 24th
The last thing we heard about filmmaker Justin Lin was that he was preparing to cap off the Fast & Furious franchise with Fast X and its finale, before ultimately leaving the production due to last-minute revisions and on-set disputes with star and producer Vin Diesel. Lin, who directed five films in the franchise, was eventually replaced, and Fast X was completed and released—though there’s still no word on when the final film will arrive or who will be directing it. Nevertheless, Justin Lin seems to have recharged his batteries of sorts, as his latest film feels like a return to basics.
Based on a tragic true story, Last Days traces the final, fateful journey of John Allen Chau, a young Chinese-American missionary determined to bring his faith to the remote and isolated tribe of North Sentinel Island, despite multiple warnings not to pursue the mission due to his lack of experience.
Sky Yang (from Zack Snyder’s sci-fi action two-parter Rebel Moon) stars as Chau, whose obsessive quest takes him across the globe and into perilous waters, driven by conviction but blind to the danger ahead. As Chau presses forward, a detective (Radhika Apte, the breakout star of Sister Midnight) scrambles to intervene—only to find herself caught between protecting an untouched Sentinelese Indigenous community and preventing a young man from walking into his own destruction.
Justin Lin is known for directing big-budget action films, including his Fast & Furious entries and Star Trek Beyond, but he began his career with acclaimed Asian-centric indies such as Better Luck Tomorrow and Finishing the Game. With Last Days, Lin appears to be shifting gears, exploring the razor’s edge between belief and obsession, where human ambition is shadowed by hubris and spirituality.
Co-starring Ken Leung, Toby Wallace, and Naveen Andrews, and written by Ben Ripley (Source Code), based on the book The Last Days of John Allen Chau by Alex Perry, Last Days is slated to open in theaters October 24th.
🎥 “We Bury the Dead” Teaser: Daisy Ridley Faces Reanimated Corpses in Zak Hilditch’s Post-Pandemic Horror with Brenton Thwaites — In Theaters January 2nd
With some time past, we can maybe now zoom out a little and perhaps mark this era as post-COVID. That’s not to say the devastating effects of COVID are behind us, but rather that we are living in a world permanently shaped by its impact, where COVID has affected just about everything. And that includes cinema, with some new films directly addressing the pandemic in thematic ways.
Daisy Ridley has one such movie coming out, and it’s safe to say it’s a horror thriller very much marked by this post-COVID era, as it delves into the fears and paranoia of a strange pandemic. Only in this case, the terror comes from the dead being reanimated. And no matter how many times she washes her hands throughout the day, it looks like Daisy is doomed no matter what.
In We Bury the Dead, the Star Wars actress plays Ava Newman, a woman searching for her missing husband while trekking through Australia during an escalating nationwide pandemic brought on by a secret military bombing experiment that went catastrophically wrong. To uncover the truth, Ava joins a grim body retrieval unit, tasked with cleaning up the carnage left by this strange and deadly exposure of the bombing.
But as she digs through the aftermath, her mission twists into terror as she discovers the corpses won’t stay buried. They rise. They follow. And, most troubling of all, they kill... and their teeth clatter ominously, as if to say: you’re next!
Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Zak Hilditch (of the cult asteroid-hitting-Earth thriller These Final Hours), the film has Ridley starring alongside Brenton Thwaites and Mark Coles Smith.
We Bury the Dead is slated to arrive in theaters January 2nd—just in time to kick off 2026 with a blood-soaked bang.
🎥 “Psycho Killer” Trailer: Barbarian’s Georgina Campbell Hunts the “Satanic Slasher” in Seven Writer Andrew Kevin Walker’s New Twisted Horror Thriller — In Theaters February 20, 2026
Quick question: what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the name Andrew Kevin Walker? Now, if your answer is, “I’ve never heard of the guy.” Okay... we get it. Maybe a little disappointing to hear. Hmmm, well, here’s a new horror thriller from the producers of Barbarian and Weapons, starring Barbarian actress Georgina Campbell.
But if your answer was, “Andrew Kevin Walker! Isn’t that the sick fuck who wrote Se7en and 8MM? Hell yeah!” Now that’s more like it. And you’re probably already hyped to see another twisted horror thriller from the writer who turned the seven deadly sins into an unforgettable cinematic nightmare. What’s in the box? is now part of the pop-culture lexicon. And for that, Andrew Kevin Walker is a name we salute every time we see it scrolled in the credits.
Psycho Killer is Walker’s latest penned nerve-shredding thriller that, naturally, delves into the fractured mind of a demented masked serial murderer known as the Satanic Slasher.
Georgina Campbell stars as a Kansas highway patrol officer whose life is torn apart after witnessing the brutal murder of her husband and patrol partner. Her pursuit of justice sends her on a relentless cross-country chase—one that reveals her target isn’t just a killer, but a sadistic psychopath whose twisted agenda grows darker with every mile.
Gavin Polone, longtime film producer of Zombieland and Panic Room, steps into the director’s chair for his feature directorial debut, delivering what appears to be a road trip straight into hell.
Andrew Kevin Walker, the acclaimed screenwriter behind Se7en, 8MM, and The Killer, pens the film that promises the same white-knuckle torment and psychological dread that defined those classics. Fingers crossed it’s another instant banger etched into horror cinema history.
Co-starring James Preston Rogers, Grace Dove, Logan Miller, and Malcolm McDowell, Psycho Killer hits theaters February 20, 2026. Just remember: evil never takes the back seat.
🎥 “Jay Kelly” Trailer: George Clooney Plays a Fame-Weary Movie Star in Noah Baumbach’s New Netflix Dramedy with Adam Sandler and Laura Dern — In Theaters November 14th, On Netflix December 5th
There’s a legit argument about whether we can count George Clooney as one of the biggest movie stars in the world. On one hand, he’s a household name no matter where you go. On the other hand, his films aren’t always box office successes—at least if you don’t count the Ocean’s films. Then again, in Hollywood terms, he’s got major influencing power, having made headlines for helping push Joe Biden out of office, which even prompted an irate Hunter Biden to publicly say he hates his guts. Quentin Tarantino also once jabbed that he doesn’t consider Clooney a legit movie star. So the debate rages on.
Fair or not, here’s the thing: it’s not like George Clooney can’t act like he’s the world’s biggest movie star. Which, in fact, he does in Noah Baumbach’s latest Netflix dramedy Jay Kelly. Here, Clooney leans into his trademark wink and grin as he takes on the role of Jay Kelly, a world-famous actor who can no longer tell where his fame end and where he begins.
While grappling with an identity and career crisis, Clooney’s Jay Kelly hits the road with his loyal manager Ron (played by Adam Sandler) on a journey across Europe to attend a world-renowned film festival. Along the way, he reexamines his life, recalling regrets and moments that now mean more than ever before. With his youngest daughter (Grace Edwards) now off to college, Jay must confront the profound loneliness of being the most recognizable man in the world. The problem is, if everyone knows your face, you’re never truly alone.
Co-written by Baumbach and actress Emily Mortimer, the film features a stacked ensemble including Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Isla Fisher, Jim Broadbent, Alba Rohrwacher, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Greta Gerwig, Stacy Keach, and Mortimer herself.
It’s a story that skewers celebrity while exploring the emotional alienation behind the spotlight. Clooney may have spent his career toggling between heartthrob, leading man, and sly comedian, but in Jay Kelly, it seems he’s playing the ultimate role: an actor searching for meaning and fumbling toward clarity.
Jay Kelly opens in select theaters November 14th before landing on Netflix December 5th.
🎥 “Pillion” Teaser: Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling Ignite a Volatile Romance in Harry Lighton’s Darkly Comic Debut — Coming Soon, 2026
They say opposites attract, but this takes it to a whole new level. Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman) and Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit) can be seen as two completely different actors—at least physically speaking. But their physical contrast becomes a driving force in this darkly comic tale of two total opposites who are drawn together, awkwardly sharing the same orbit.
In this offbeat gay sex comedy Pillion, Melling plays a meek, reserved man whose life takes a wild turn when he falls under the romantic spell of a magnetic biker, portrayed by Skarsgård. What begins as a thrilling ride quickly shifts into a volatile bond, as passion, submission, power, and a little BDSM meet head-on.
Premiering to rave reviews this summer at the Cannes Film Festival, the film marks the feature debut of British writer-director Harry Lighton, who has been praised for crafting a tale that’s equal parts sensual, unsettling, and strangely tender.
Acquired by A24 Films, Pillion is set to arrive sometime in 2026.
