Flowers In The Attic Was My Life
When we heard that lifetime was adapting v c andrews 1979 novel flowers in the attic for the screen we were a little shocked.
Flowers in the attic was my life. 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. 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. Andrews website claims to have contacted one of andrews relatives. This unidentified relative claimed flowers in the attic was loosely based on a faintly similar account.
With louise fletcher victoria tennant kristy swanson jeb stuart adams. 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. It stars kiernan shipka as cathy mason dye as chris heather graham as corinne and ellen burstyn as the grandmother. Andrews 2020 02 04 fiction.
Nonetheless the official v. Andrews she became a novelist late in life having previously worked as a commercial artist illustrator and portrait painter. It s sort of like remaking. Directed by jeffrey bloom.
Out of the attic v c. The american writer virginia c. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. Featuring a beautiful blond cast of talented actors flowers in the attic makes the beloved gothic novel come to life.
Andrews was born cleo virginia andrews in portsmouth virginia. Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother. Known popularly as v c. Unlike the 1987 original film the remake closely follows the content of the novel including the incestuous relationship between the two eldest siblings.
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. Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c.