Flowers in the Attic

Unless watching four bland blond kids languish in the title site, as circles spread under their pale eyes and cobwebs gather over yours, is your idea of grand entertainment, I'd advise you to avoid this lame TV-movie-type loser like your proverbial plague. Tin-eared dialogue, a total lack of action and suspense, plus cardboard performances, like Fletcher's (who goes from Ratched to wretched here)as a Granny from Hell, combine to make this one of moviedom's all-time worst

Ultra-bland filming of V. C. Andrews's popular supermarket tome. With most of the more controversial elements of the book (i.e., incest) played down, what we're basically left with is a dull TV-type "thriller" with no thrills and not even much in the way of unintended laughs to relieve the tedium. Fletcher does her umpteenth Nurse Ratched bit as the stern grandma; the tacked-on "shocker" ending (featuring an obvious double for Tennant) is really feeble. "Eat the cookie, Mama!"

is not as good as the book