7 Minutes in Heaven

Some families have DARK histories...

**"That isn't even funny."**

***7 Minutes in Heaven*** is the fourth episode of the first season of *Sunny Family Cult* and the fourth episode overall. It is written and directed by Gabriel Younes and released by Crypt TV. It stars Trew Mullen, Rudy Pankow, Tavis Balkin, Chloe Godard, and Adam Stern Rand.

The episode was released on Crypt TV's Facebook page on May 9th, 2017, and again on their YouTube channel on May 12th, 2017. It is the unofficial pilot episode of the series.

## Summary

A group of teens spend a night at a cabin in the woods playing sleepover games, but seven minutes in heaven becomes a bloody nightmare when Taylor uses this opportunity to prove herself to the Sunny Family Cult.

## Plot

On April 1st, 1982, a man is sitting in his van eating a sandwich. He goes outside of his truck to pee on the side of the road, and a paper airplane lands by his foot. He picks it up and unfolds it, and there is a smile face with a line drawn through it with the words "April Fools" written underneath. A man in a mask comes up behind him, and uses a chain he brought to strangle the man. A woman in a mask identical to the man's comes up to the victim and stabs him to death. As the man and woman leave together, a voice-over explains that the origins of the Sunny Family Cult, one of the most mysterious murder cults in North America, can be traced back to April Fool's Day of 1982, and that their last reported killing was in 2015, in the northern Iowa town of Bettendorf.

In the present day, a group of teenagers -- Jessa, her boyfriend, Aaron, Kyle, and Taylor -- are gathered in a cabin in the woods, watching a documentary on the Sunny Family Cult and debating its existence. Jessa insists that the cult is just a story told to keep people from doing anything crazy on April Fool's, and Kyle says that his prents told him that it was real. Aaron says that if he was the victim, he would've just killed them all -- which is why you should carry a gun on you. Jessa's boyfriend immediately calls him out, saying that he doesn't even own a gun, and Taylor says that guns are stupid. Aaron immediately backpedals and agrees with Taylor, flexing and saying that he doesn't need a gun to protect her. Taylor and Jessa get embarrassed, and Aaron tries to break the tension by suggesting Truth or Dare, resulting in mixed reactions from the group. Aaron dares Taylor to play 7 Minutes in Heaven with him, and she agrees.

Once they get in the closet, Taylor slams Aaron against the wall, and he says that he wasn't trying to be a creep and that he actually likes her. Taylor tells him to shut up, and she kisses him. Outside, the other teens hear a loud thud, and Taylor comes out covered in blood. She tells them that Aaron is dead, and Jessa tells her that isn't funny, and Taylor replies, smiling, that she thinks it is. Jessa's boyfriend goes to the closet to see if they're playing a prank, only to find that Aaron has been stabbed to death and is now laying in a pool of his own blood. The lights go out, and when they come back on again, Jessa has been stabbed to death as well. Kyle and Jessa's boyfriend run for the door, only to find it's locked. Jessa's boyfriend finds a paper airplane and unfolds it, revealing the insignia of the Sunny Family Cult.

Taylor then appears, wearing a faceless cloth mask, and stabs him to death. She then turns her attention on Kyle, and asks him to join them, saying that it's more like a family than a cult. Kyle begs her to stop and go to the police, and a disappointed Taylor stabs him to death. Two other cult members enter the living room, revealing themselves as Taylor's parents, Karen and Elias. Elias tells her that he reminded her to "strangle, don't stab", and Taylor asks if she still did good. Karen says that she did wonderfully, and the family takes a selfie in their cult masks to commemorate Taylor's first kill.

## Cast

 Karen
 Aaron
 Kyle
 Jessa
 Jessa's Boyfriend
 Opening Victim

## Trivia

* Though this is the fourth episode in the series, it is the first episode to be released.

## References

1. ↑ Crypt TV. “Sunny Family Cult | 'He's dead, he's REALLY DEAD....' BEWARE of the SUNNY FAMILY CULT... | By Crypt TV.” Facebook, Crypt TV; May 9th, 2017.