Pitch for Broken Soul

When a troubled young boy is adopted by a suburban couple, he struggles to adapt to his new life and finds that his past still haunts. In order to cope with his past he takes his anger out on them but becomes more and more violent. Will they be able to escape from him or will he continue to torture them?

The film will be set outside London where he kidnaps and tortures his adoptive parents. the film will appeal to viewers aged between 18 and 30. It is a psychological thriller based on the film We Need To Talk About Kevin and has aspects of the film Juno. The setup will begin with a brief backstory of the boy and the adoptive parents then the confrontation would be when the now older boy has a flashback of his past that haunts him and causes him to kidnap and torture his adoptive parents in their basement. The resolution is not clear as we do not know whether he kills them or leaves them in the basement.