Flowers In The Attic Was My Life

It stars kiernan shipka as cathy mason dye as chris heather graham as corinne and ellen burstyn as the grandmother.

Flowers in the attic was my life.

Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. Andrews website claims to have contacted one of andrews relatives. The american writer virginia c. Nonetheless the official v.

Andrews she became a novelist late in life having previously worked as a commercial artist illustrator and portrait painter. Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. It s sort of like remaking. Andrews s mega selling 1979 young adult novel flowers in the attic was adapted into a campy 1987 horror movie starring kristy the original buffy the vampire slayer swanson and louise.

Flowers in the attic 1979 which she wrote an early draft of in 1975 became a bestseller although the washington post declared the book deranged swill and andrews possibly the worst writer i have ever read. Unlike the 1987 original film the remake closely follows the content of the novel including the incestuous relationship between the two eldest siblings. Out of the attic v c. Contains flowers in the attic in which four children are locked into the attic of their grandmother s home after the death of their father and petals on the wind in which cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years lockedin an attic with her brothers and sister.

Featuring a beautiful blond cast of talented actors flowers in the attic makes the beloved gothic novel come to life. For many years there was no evidence to support this claim and the book was passed off as fiction. Andrews was born cleo virginia andrews in portsmouth virginia. This unidentified relative claimed flowers in the attic was loosely based on a faintly similar account.

For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. When we heard that lifetime was adapting v c andrews 1979 novel flowers in the attic for the screen we were a little shocked. With nice 1950 s period detail we follow the dollanganger family to the sprawling virginia mansion known as foxworth hall a place filled with secrets and cruel deceptions. Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Directed by jeffrey bloom. With louise fletcher victoria tennant kristy swanson jeb stuart adams.