Flowers in the Attic 1987
The Dollanganger family is shattered when the father of the house dies, leaving them destitute. The only hope lies in their mother Corinne returning and winning favour with her dying father who disinherited her after she left home. Once there, the cruel and autocratic grandmother takes the four children and locks them in a room in the attic. Their mother goes along with this, telling them to wait until she is successful in her entreaty. However, as days draw into months, their mother’s visits become scarcer and they are sometimes forced to go without food for a long time. Managing to find a way to sneak in and out of the attic, they find that their mother is planning to marry another man and is now sprinkling arsenic on their food to kill them off.

Author Virginia C. Andrews had a best-seller with her first novel, the Gothic horror story Flowers in the Attic (1979), which was purportedly based on a true story.

This story had a great deal of potential, perhaps not in the horror genre as current define but certainly as a psychological thriller. Sadly, the movie shies away from what made Flowers in the Attic such a hugely popular book - namely, the incestuous sex that began between the two older children.


Director: Jeffrey Bloom
Cast: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Flowers in the Attic (1987) Blu-Ray Image Entertainment
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BD25 | 1080p AVC | 01:31:55 | 21.2 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Flowers in the Attic (1987) Blu-Ray Umbrella Entertainment
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BD25 | 1080p AVC | 01:31:49 | 20.9 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Flowers in the Attic (1987) Blu-Ray Arrow
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BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:31:33 | 42.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Extras:
• New audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, author and editor-in-chief of Diabolique Magazine
• Home Sweet Home: Filming Flowers in the Attic, a new interview with cinematographer Frank Byers (8:26)
• Fear & Wonder: Designing Flowers in the Attic, a new interview with production designer John Muto (13:45)
• The Devil’s Spawn: Playing Flowers in the Attic, a new interview with actor Jeb Stuart Adams (13:41)
• Shattered Innocence: Composing Flowers in the Attic, a new interview with composer Christopher Young (9:33)
• Production gallery of behind-the-scenes images, illustrations and storyboards (4:51)
• The original, studio-vetoed ending (7:53)
• Revised ending with commentary (10:43)
• Original theatrical trailer (1:37)