Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
Flower 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.
With louise fletcher victoria tennant kristy swanson jeb stuart adams.
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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.
At one point wes craven was scheduled to direct the film and had completed a screenplay draft.
Based on the popular novel by v.
Andrews flowers in the attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity.
When their father is killed teenagers cathy kristy swanson.
Andrews 1979 novel of the same name.
Producers were disturbed by his approach to the incest laden story however and jeffrey bloom ended.