Flowers in the Attic

Name: Flowers in the Attic
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: November 20, 1987
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 25
Cast: Alex Koba, Ben Ryan Ganger, Brooke Fries, Jeb Stuart Adams, Kristy Swanson

1987

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New World Pictures | Release Date: November 20, 1987 | PG-13

Starring: Alex Koba, Ben Ryan Ganger, Brooke Fries, Jeb Stuart Adams, Kristy Swanson, Lindsay Parker, Louise Fletcher, Marshall Colt, Nathan Davis, Victoria Tennant

Summary: Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Director: Jeffrey Bloom

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 93 min

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Kevin Thomas

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]

Empire William Thomas

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Incestuous desires run rampant in the original novel by VC Andrews, but all the movie has to offer is soft-focus innuendo. As fantasy stripped of all its metaphorical trimmings, the sublimely ridiculous plot is more likely to reduce an audience to laughter than to tears. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Jay Scott

Would-be horror film has little upstairs. Warped and wilted in the attic. [25 Nov 1987]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Richard Harrington

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. Read full review

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