7^th Son is reminiscent to the original Amityville Horror with the heart pounding suspense of the Shining.

Tagline: Some houses hide secrets that should never be revealed.

Logline: When a distressed father pieces together clues that link his son's erratic behavior to a horrific murder of passion and betrayal forty years prior, details of his own tragic past emerge.

SYNOPSIS:

7thSON is set in the present day, interlaced with revealing flashbacks of an unsolved murder that occurred in the same house 40 years prior.

Present day, Ed, Emma and their 7-year-old son, Reed Reynolds, have freshly relocated from Chicago to West Virginia Coal Country for Emma’s job; a much-needed change for the Reynolds family after their infant son recently died of SIDS.

Their move, however, only intensifies the baggage they thought they were leaving behind.

Shortly after settling into their new life, Reed’s behavior becomes erratic, which at times escalates into fits of psychotic rage, always directed toward Ed. Emma and Ed’s conflicting ideas as to how to deal with Reed’s fragile emotional state quickly pit the couple at odds. Ed starts to intensify his focus on eerie coincidences occurring between Reed and past tenants of their rented home, at which point Emma decides that things have gone too far. She questions Ed’s commitment to his sobriety, which had been a major point of contention in their past, and the discontent between the three of them reaches a boiling point.

As the Reynolds story unfolds, flashbacks are interwoven to show a parallel of the Johnson family’s demise; occupants of the same house 40 years prior.

-- 40 YEARS PRIOR --

Coal Miner Lou Johnson, housewife Pam, and their 7 children, have fallen on hard times after Lou is critically injured in a mining incident. Lou’s overzealous younger brother, Ray, revels in the opportunity to take on the key support role for the family during Lou’s recovery.

But Ray’s true intentions soon come out of the darkness and into the light.

After strategically sabotaging Lou’s wellbeing, and alienating him from the rest of his family, Ray convinces Pam that Lou has relapsed, as he had over a decade ago after returning from Vietnam as a wounded warrior. As Ray’s plan falls into place, Lou is left with no choice but to kill or be killed. In a series of shocking events, Lou finally snaps and carries out an unthinkable crime of passion and betrayal. With his family’s not-yet-expired bodies concealed behind the brick basement wall, Lou seals his own fate.

These flashbacks reveal eerie similarities between the Johnson and Reynolds story arcs, as hopelessness gives way to desperation, which ultimately leads to tragedy. As the Reynolds story seems destined for a similar ending, Ed’s relentless at-all-costs detective work unravels shocking details about the former residents, as well as his own past.

But unfortunately for the cursed Johnson family lineage … history has an uncanny way of repeating itself.