Flower In The Attic Movie Review

It s certainly not a film for everyone it deals with some very disturbing themes but it is an effective movie box office.

Flower in the attic movie review.

Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale. The film received a positive review on the cinematic addiction website where it was praised for its acting direction and music. Andrews novel passed around like a dirty secret at slumber parties and middle school playgrounds. Olivia is disgusted by the children she knows their mother victoria tennant and father were actually cousins and locks the brood in the attic.

Flowers both the book and the new movie is completely absurd if you want to gauge the absurdity just know that one of the darkest secrets in the narrative involves a doughnut but somehow. The rags to riches story appealed to our fantasy the brother sister incest made it verboten. I went through a flowers in the attic phase years ago lots of people did a guilty guilty pleasure. Critic reviews for flowers in the attic all critics 8 top critics 1 fresh 1 rotten 7 they spend most of their time in the attic where their eyes grow cavernous from makeup.

What hunger games and twilight are for millennials the dollanganger series was for girls who grew up in the 80s and 90s. Overall flowers in the attic is a good movie. I haven t read the novel so i don t personally know how it compares to the book. The book has much more of an icky cringe factor than jerry or jeremy where the salacious details are part of the entertainment of fifteen minutes of the tackiest loudest and most violent people on tv.

Ask any girl in her thirties and she ll likely have an inexplicable soft spot for flowers in the attic that chilling v c. Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower. The review specified flowers in the attic is a good movie. Now this film was re shot and re edited without the directors approval.

Based on other reviews here the book apparently blows the film away but since i ve yet to read it i m just judging my review on the film alone. 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.