Strictly average movie

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Although this adaptation of Virginia Andrew's dark series has not done justice to her writing, the film is still dark, eerie and captures the main essence of the book.Although it lagged action at times and drags, the story is unique and captivating. The acting of the Grandmother is freaky and it is definitely a film I would watch again.I am interested in the 2014 remake, I am sure with the quality of films made these days we are in for a treat.However, this is the classic adaptation and I think the children were conveyed well and their stories were told in this film.Even if you are not a V.A fan, still a good film to watch.

"Flowers in the Attic" is geared towards nobody, except horror movie buffs. However, it is not your typical horror movie. It is a film with an interesting story, totally unbelievable and extremely memorable. To me, it was virtually a horror movie. However, this horror is all too real to understand why such a situation would ever happen. This movie is ONLY FOR ADULTS. Children should NOT WATCH the movie. I still remember the movie and the feeling it game me even after several months of watching it. This is the only reason I give it a higher rating than normal. I was totally blown away by this movie. Flowers in the Attic is a movie that appears to move slow, however, don't let the pace deceive you. The movie draws you in and does not let you go. This is a movie that will haunt you for a long time.

A bad summary of the book. Yes the book and that is what this movie is based upon: the book! The "Flowers in the Attic" movie is a very poor take on the Dollanganger family story written by Virginia Andrews, period! It was massacred and summarized to produce a poor movie. So many things were changed and not to produce a better movie, the movie was stripped of the soul of the characters. I don't want to mention all the things that were butchered to make this ragged movie. Too many details missing. Was the movie that tight on budget that they couldn't afford to make the scenes flow more realistically? Like teaching the twins in the attic on those old desks in the attic and teaching them crafts with all the gifts Corrine would bring. Not once did I see her bring any gifts, they mentioned them, they mentioned many things but why weren't they portrayed in the movie? What happened to the Attic? It did not fit the description of the book in the least. Let me stress the title of the this story is: Flowers in the Attic and that is where the young Dollangangers spent most of their days, where Cathy grew into puberty. They should of focused more about that. Not implement so many things in the movie that didn't exist in the book. I missed the twins sitting on the small desks and the blackboard, I miss Cathy impersonating the grandmother or dancing? All I saw was Cathy doing stretching exercises. I did not see her putting on old records and dancing, dancing, dancing. Oh and what about Cathy's hair that got cut off? Grandmother put tar in her hair, not cut it...the story is wrong beyond belief. I hope the next movie will pay tribute to the story because this one is a huge disappointment.

They have come to a house where secrets are kept....where the future is haunted by the past.....where the innocent live in the shadow of sin.....where a dark legacy awaits to destroy all who defy it...While I have not read the book, I sincerely hope it is not as bad as this film (though, after reading "Twilight", I know that you do not need to be a good writer to sell millions of copies). Absolutely terrible dialogue litters this film, and it is poorly delivered, only exacerbating this shortcoming.Another script was written by Wes Craven, but was turned down because of the violence and incest. I would much rather watch his version (this one all but removes the incest subplot that made the original novel so controversial). At least horror fans still have the music of Christopher Young ("Hellraiser") to listen to.Apparently the sequel was to be "all sex" but never got off the ground. The bigger mystery is: where is the remake? A book this successful that made a critically-failed movie? That is a perfect excuse to give it another go. By now, Kristy Swanson is old enough to play the mother...