The result is a real turnoff.
Flowers in the attic movie review 1987.
Based on the popular novel by v.
In adapting andrews gothic chiller writer director jeffrey bloom tries hard to establish an eerie fairy tale gone sour mood yet fails to work up the credibility necessary to sustain it.
Parents need to know that flowers in the attic is a drama based on a very popular 1980s pulp novel about a family whose children are locked in an attic by a scary mother and grandmother incest is a major theme since the children are a product of it and the older siblings eventually become intimate though only kissing is visible.
When their father is killed teenagers cathy kristy swanson.
Flowers in the attic is a protracted exercise in morbidity relieved only by moments of ludicrousness.
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Rotten tomatoes only gives the film a 14 fresh rating and the movie made a mere 15 million in theaters.
Flowers in the attic is a great classic film off of a book and it s very well done.
Flowers in the attic pg 13 1h 33min drama mystery thriller 20 november 1987 usa children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
The book has a lot more sexual tension and sex between the brother and sister.
In adapting andrews gothic chiller writer director jeffrey bloom tries hard to establish an eerie fairy tale gone sour mood yet fails to work up the credibility necessary to sustain it.
Flowers in the attic is kind of a trashy movie and a trashy book.
This review is from flowers in the attic blu ray.
A lot of people criticized the movie for the drastic alterations that had been made to the plot in an attempt to avoid some of the controversial elements found in the book.
It s scary without the blood or gore.
20 nov 1987 p 32.
There are often differences between books and the movies that are based on them.
Andrews flowers in the attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity.
Tennant is the perfect little mother whose husband dies in a.
Filmed in mostly ipswitch ma flowers in the attic was not very well received by critics or the box office.
Flowers in the attic is a protracted exercise in morbidity relieved only by moments of ludicrousness.
The movie tones down the story and if they had gone for all out trash it might have been more successful.
In this case it may be best to forget the comparisons and concentrate on the finished product the flowers in the attic movie and like it or.
The flowers in the attic movie did not get the best of reviews when it first came out in 1987.
