Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
Flower in the attic movie 1987.
Based on the popular novel by v.
Flowers in the attic is the story of four children who are confined to an attic and abandoned by their mother while fending for themselves they realise they have to take desperate measures to escape.
When their father is killed teenagers cathy kristy swanson.
After their father s death four siblings move into their grandmother s mansion where they suffer a nightmare of cruelty and forbidden passion.
I have never personally read the novel but the movie which is disguised as a horror by the trailer is quite downbeat and depressing.
Flowers in the attic is a 1987 psychological horror film starring louise fletcher victoria tennant kristy swanson and jeb stuart adams it is based on v.
Directed by jeffrey bloom.
Producers were disturbed by his approach to the incest laden story however and jeffrey bloom ended.
Andrews 1979 novel of the same name.
Andrews flowers in the attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity.