Review Flowers In The Attic

The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation.

Review flowers in the attic.

Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. Andrews flowers in the attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity. With heather graham ellen burstyn kiernan shipka mason dye. 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.

For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. After the sudden death of their father four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother. Based on the popular novel by v. Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale.

When their father is killed teenagers cathy kristy swanson. Children s books children and teenagers friendship books for children and teens. Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower. I loved this book series growing up and needless to say i was disappointed in the 1987 version.

Audience reviews for flowers in the attic. Flowers in the attic by virginia andrews review. Lifetime s gamble on the v c. Andrews novel passed around like a dirty secret at slumber parties and middle school playgrounds.

Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. Flowers in the attic review. Directed by deborah chow.