Flowers In The Attic Movie 1987

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 movie 1987. When we heard that lifetime was adapting v c andrews 1979 novel flowers in the attic for the screen we were a little shocked. 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. It s sort of like remaking. 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.
Producers were disturbed by his approach to the incest laden story however and jeffrey bloom ended. Andrews flowers in the attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity. Based on the popular novel by v. When their father is killed teenagers cathy kristy swanson.
At one point wes craven was scheduled to direct the film and had completed a screenplay draft. Directed by jeffrey bloom. Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.