Flowers In The Attic Movie Review 1987

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Flowers in the attic movie review 1987.

The book has a lot more sexual tension and sex between the brother and sister. Flowers in the attic is kind of a trashy movie and a trashy book. Tennant is the perfect little mother whose husband dies in a. 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. There are often differences between books and the movies that are based on them. The result is a real turnoff. 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.

So if you like classic scary movies this is a great one. Flowers in the attic is a protracted exercise in morbidity relieved only by moments of ludicrousness. 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. When their father is killed teenagers cathy kristy swanson.

The result is a real turnoff. It s scary without the blood or gore. Rotten tomatoes only gives the film a 14 fresh rating and the movie made a mere 15 million in theaters. 20 nov 1987 p 32.

Instead a pg 13 rating was achieved and it ended up a bland boring film. Flowers in the attic is a great classic film off of a book and it s very well done. 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. Filmed in mostly ipswitch ma flowers in the attic was not very well received by critics or the box office.

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. The movie tones down the story and if they had gone for all out trash it might have been more successful. This review is from flowers in the attic blu ray. Flowers in the attic is a protracted exercise in morbidity relieved only by moments of ludicrousness.