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- 1987
- PG-13
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1987
- PG-13
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
Directed By: Jeffrey Bloom
Written By: Virginia C. Andrews, Jeffrey Bloom
- 1987
- PG-13
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1987
- PG-13
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Flowers in the Attic
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Summary Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
Directed By: Jeffrey Bloom
Written By: Virginia C. Andrews, Jeffrey Bloom
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
67% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
25
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
67% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Flowers in the Attic is a protracted exercise in morbidity, relieved only by moments of ludicrousness. 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 result is a real turnoff. [20 Nov 1987, p.32]
Driven by cliches and almost completely ignoring the psychological growth of the children coping with the loss of their parents, it doesn't take long for this to descent into meaningless schlock.
V. C. Andrews novel of incestuous relationships and confined childhood always has been a superb candidate for a film treatment, but director Jeffrey Bloom has taken this narrative and squeezed the life from it. Performances are as stiff and dreary as the attic these children are imprisoned in.
The scary thing about this movie, written and directed for minimum impact by Jeffrey Bloom, is that the book Flowers in the Attic was followed by four other horticultural horror shows, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns Seeds of Yesterday and Garden of Shadows. There may be bitter fruit to come.
Would-be horror film has little upstairs. Warped and wilted in the attic. [25 Nov 1987]
Screenwriter/director Bloom has produced a bad script and his direction of young actors is even worse. Nothing very explicit survives in the final cut, leaving Andrews' grim ruminations on the horrors of a perverted family life obtuse and undeveloped.
Flowers in the Attic is slow, stiff, stupid and senseless, a film utterly lacking in motivation, development and nuance, and further marred by embarrassingly flat acting and directing.
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Production Company
New World Pictures,
Fries Entertainment
Release Date Nov 20, 1987
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline They have come to a house where secrets are kept....where the future is haunted by the past.....where the innocent live in the shadow of sin.....where a dark legacy awaits to destroy all who defy it.....
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
