VHS : Flowers in the Attic
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love gets brought to the screen. When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant, L.A. Story) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) locks them in an upstairs room, from which the only escape is into the cluttered and cobwebbed attic. The children's isolation gets more and more extreme as their mother abandons them, finally even slowly poisoning them to gain her father's inheritance. Sadly, the movie shies away from what made Flowers in the Attic such a hugely popular book--namely, the incestuous sex that began between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson, the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). Instead, the movie insinuates incestuous longing in all directions: Cathy's father brings her special presents before he dies, Chris scrubs Cathy's back in the tub, Chris has a noticeably stronger attachment to their mother than Cathy does--not to mention that the grandmother whips the half-naked mother in front of the grandfather. Fletcher brings a bit of bite to her role, and the movie occasionally rises to absurdly lurid zest. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I don't know why they even bothered making the movie
If anyone wants to know what the book would have been like without the incest, they should watch this. It is basically an excuse to watch children being tortured and starved for an hour and a half. There's no point other than that. The kids don't undergo much of a transformation. They get sickly and dirty and cynical and that`s about it. At least in the book, they made devastating decisions that drastically altered their lives. In the movie, they're just acted upon. I think they scream in ... Read More
Rating: - Not Louise Fletcher's best
The book was fabulous...the movie was not!
However, I still like the movie because I love Louise Fletcher.
Unfortunately she was ONE of the reasons I didn't like it. I just expected so much more from her.
The rest of the acting was borderline camp.
With all of that said...I still bought the film and I'm sure I'll watch it again.
Rating:  - WE GET IT... NOW GIVE IT A REST!!!
Ok, now I understand that alot of the people who read the book first and then watched the movie were dissapointed; as the movie was not like the book at all. That being said, the movie is what made me want to read the book. I'll be the first to say that the book and its series are excellent, but I love the movie too. This movie came out when I was seven years old and it terrified me and made me cry (poor Cory). At the age of seven, I was so enraged at their mother's behavior I wanted to break the ... Read More
Rating: - WOW
I gave this movie a high rating only because it brings back memories of my childhood. I saw the movie before I read the book, which made the movie like a watered down made-for-tv thing. I don't know if people were ready for the REAL Flowers in the Attic back when the movie was made. However,I used to love this movie!
Rating: - Flowers in the Attic DVD
Good movie however if you can watch the DVD first and then read the book. The movie was different than the book especially the ending.
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