The voice-over by Kristy Swanson (Cathy) is left out. "All during the time we stayed at Foxworth Hall, we told ourselves that it was the locked doors and barred windows that kept us from leaving. But it wasn't. It was our love for mother. Loving her had kept us prisoners. Cory was gone and we didn't know then if the poison that took his life would take ours as well. But we made a promise to each other. As long as we lived, we would never look back. And as long as we lived, we would live free."
Thanks so much for this! So much better than the ending they went with. It's a shame because the 1987 movie, despite cutting the incest out was still a good suspenseful adaptation.
I liked this ending better. It show grandfather was never dead. It also showed him getting at corrine. Then the emotion of the grandmother was great. What an evil biddy. Then she got hers too in the room.
@@jpbart1390 I've never read the books, but from what I've heard/read about them, the remake was more inclusive of the different plot points & details from the book, but the 1987 film had greater, more compelling performances & was wonderfully cinematic.
@@jpbart1390 Not the first time Victoria Tennant has played a villain; check out 1984's "All Of Me". Not the first time for Fletcher, either, of course. Nurse Ratched herself. Swanson co-stsrred as a Patty Hearst-type in 1994's "The Chase" with Charlie Sheen.
The original ending that director Jeffrey Bloom wrote (it's never been made clear if it was filmed or not), had the kids leaving Foxworth Hall as the wedding was taking place. This second ending was more of a horror/slasher ending (the studio wanted to make this into a horror film; Bloom's take on the story was different). I do like that this ending can be seen now (and a lot of continuity errors that we see in the theatrical ending now make sense, such as the kids looking much paler as they leave the mansion than they did in the theatrical ending). At least Corrine didn't die in this version. It's too bad that more deleted scenes weren't included on the Blu-ray release.
Hopefully, we can get a novelization that is based on Jeffrey Bloom's original vision of the film. I mean, if certain films like *"Cruel Jaws"* and the original *"My Bloody Valentine"* can get a novelization many years after they had been released, why not this one?
Strange but pleasantly surprising to see butler John actually on the children’s side just before the end, as he suddenly intercepts killer Grandma Olivia and stops her ordering her to let them go. Then as he quickly locks her in that enclosed cage-like space (or whatever it is) as she fervently prays for mercy she suddenly feels drops falling on her-BLOOD!-that of the now DEAD CARETAKER! as Cathy, Chris, and Carrie solemnly leave dreadful Grandmother’s house behind them.
I know, right? John was so snooty that he couldn't even say hello back to Cory. But then when Cathy and Chris were wandering around the house and they ran into John, he never told the grandmother about them getting out of the bedroom. John was a very mysterious character, but an unlikely hero.
Exactly, up until this point the butler was preventing them from leaving. The butler show little remorse when he took the boy away to "see the doctor" (i.e. take him to be deleted), so it comes out of left field when he stops the Grandmother.
@@thechickapedia1175 me too lol, i had no idea it was special until watching it on cable several years later and thinking " what the heck did they do to that epic ending"? They did Weird Science the same way.
Thank you so much for sharing this, I never saw this ending and as allot of people have said, allot better! This film scared the absolute s**t out of me for years and now at 41, I think I can just about manage it! 🤣
Am I the only one who actually likes this ending? The grandmother with the knife was the only thing I didn't care for but DANG that last twist was EPIC!
The theatrical ending gave Corrine what she deserved, this one exposes her but she lives. It still would have been problematic for a sequel, but this ending is interesting to see. Wish we could have had more deleted scenes.
I like this ending. It holds more impact then the film, which didn't need the death. The book was good but leaving a note on a chalk board was useless. Someone likely erased it an hour later when it was noticed before anyone saw it. I don't remember any characters seeing it that mattered to the plot. The grandmother here is out of character of the book for sure.
@@SignOfTheTimes008 Actually, the note on the chalkboard in the attic classroom-“We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, now there are only three” had remained there all that time, over the next twelve years to be exact. It’s November 1960 when Cathy, Chris, and Carrie leave, and Christmas night 1972 when Cathy steals into Foxworth Hall to expose her mother to Bart and the rest of the Christmas party guests(before doing this she goes upstairs to their former “prison,” only to find it EXACTLY the same since they left twelve years ago; she even goes up to the attic(everything there has been absolutely untouched as well), and finally the schoolroom-the aforementioned note on the blackboard, which she herself wrote, to serve as a sort of mystery or even a “time capsule”for anyone who might discover it, is indeed still there, after twelve whole years. (“How was I to know I myself would be the one to discover it, after all this time?” she thinks to herself, upon finding it still there.) Seems after the three surviving grandchildren escaped Foxworth Hall, Grandma Olivia must have thought,”OK, so they escaped and are gone from my life now, the devil’s spawn. Time to bury the past and let it Rest In Peace for good, by keeping this room locked up forever, never to be occupied by anyone else again!”
This has to be a better ending. During the entire film the grandmother is evil, and she doesn’t get any punishment at the end of the film, yet she does in this ending.
To me, this is not the better ending. The Mother, Corrine, is the one who brought them there. She was the one who was poisoning her own children. One of them died.
Wow, that was pathetically awful. They really did not understand what made the book scary. Which is more embarrassing, flying killer grandma or "eat the cookie"?
This ending was what the studio insisted on because they thought director Jeffrey Bloom's original ending wasn't dramatic enough. Bloom (who also wrote the screenplay) did understand the book and V.C. Andrews approved his script. Later, of course, the ending was changed again because of a negative reaction from the test audience.
This would have been an awesome ending!!!!!! So detailed and I loved how the Grandmother tried to attack them at the end! I know it's nothing like the book but this had a sort of horror flair to it. I know Wes Craven was involved at some point but dropped out. I wonder if this was his ending. Anyhow, thanks for sharing!!!!!
Absoloutley brilliant ending, I’ve been watching this for film years since I was little First vhs, then dvd and blu ray and never knew this ending existed or that they made multiple ones, this one was perfect they ruined the mothers wedding and left it to the husband and grandfather to decide her fate as inheriting the millions went, and the grandmother as evil and horrific as she was got her comeuppance in that elevator scene, she hated them that much she was willing to kill them rather then allowing them their freedom. I wish this was the true ending now that I’ve seen it!
It appears she was locked in an old timey elevator where the guy she hired to kill the kids was dripping blood all over her. She must have been freaking out when she realized they killed him.
In one of the books, she gets pushed into the stairwell (I believe, it’s been ages) leading to the attic and freaks out. I think this was a slight reference to her claustrophobia/that scene
Thanks for uploading this. I do like the initial fight with the groundskeeper and think that could have been kept in. And the fact that Cathy also yelled 'mother' in this version and that Corrine shot her a look. But overall I do like the wedding scene we got, I just wish Corrine didn't die. Maybe have her fall off the balcony and just have her lying on the ground unconscious.
Same here. Not to mention here, the way it was originally going to end, with Chris, Cathy, and Carrie encountering and getting hindered by the caretaker after ambushing grandma and escaping their prison. (Of course that was the only part here that was kept for the final draft of the movie as everyone knows-Grandma Olivia entering the grandchildren’s room only to find it oddly clean, quiet, and empty, she looks for the children and no sooner does she open the door going up to the attic than she gets ambushed-THEIR turn to ambush HER!(after the way she had ambushed Cathy earlier, then whacked her silly and cut her precious long hair short.
I think what people aren’t realizing is this is a rough cut so with a matching score and better editing it probably wouldn’t seem so off! The music throws it way off but it’s agree they could have left out crazy grandma she was supposed to be cold and dead not all crazy animated
That ending is better than them leaving Foxworth Hall and I didn't know they had that kind of an ending. The Bulter was one that saved them. The Dollaganger/ Foxworth Family were evil and it reminds me of Armie Hammer's family and they ate people.
Boy Nurse Ratchet, locks kids in attic, shows up on Star Trek Deep space Nine, as a crooked Kai, aligns herself with Gul Dukut and sells her soul to the Pah Wraiths.
The mother turned out to be a bastard.And the evil mother twisted bastard.And the old man in the wheel chain,evil as fk, brilliant film& actors& actresses,I seen it in around 88,I thought it was good, brilliant horror.
I thought the theatrical ending was silly. I love the idea of the Mother being left alive to wallow in poverty, and the Grandmother being the one that gets hers. Honestly, this ending was a bit silly too though. Grandma would have been ice cold up to the end. A completely flip out was too far out of character. Neither ending really jives with the pacing of the rest of the movie.
So who killed the guy in the elevator? John? I guess he started caring for the little brother and I wonder how this would have played out in the sequels if they had made them.
Very interesting. Personally, I would have preferred a “mish-mash” of this ending and the one they ended up using - the creepy groundskeeper (I think?) dies, Corrine still gets hung, and Olivia still attacks the kids with a knife but gets overpowered and locked up by the butler. That way, the guests at the wedding know the kids are telling the truth, and the bad guys get what they deserve. The only thing that bothers me is how Olivia charges at them with that knife - she looks like she’s gliding across the floor.
This is so much better. its way better revenge to have all of this exposed in front of everyone, being humiliating and embarrassing to both the mother and grandmother. That shot of Louise Fletcher with the knife moving like that is cool too. I don't know why audiences would not have liked this except when this was done they wanted more hardcore action. The whole nature of the story is slow burn and to have the entire wedding crowd witness this is much more satisfying.
they were exposed in the other ending too. I much prefer the ending they chose. I thought this was pretty cheesy. The kids interrupt her wedding in the movie and Cathy tries to force her to eat the cookie and she ends up falling over the balcony and is hanged by her wedding veil. I thought this was super corny but that's just my 2 cents 🙂
He said "its all because of your no good pig stealing great-great-grandfather!" The actor who plays the grandfather played the grandfather Stanley Yelnats the II in the movie HOLES lol
@@deathegg9474 I think I uploaded it before HD was available on youtube. Also, it’s from a vhs transfer so I’m sure that wouldn’t make much of a difference
Wow! I have never seen this and I’ve watched this movie a million times. The mothers dress is different and who is that old man holding her back? The grandfather? Where did u find this?!
Watch flower in the attacks origins. It explains the grandmothers beginnings. And although it's not an excuse as to it being ok why she did these things, you get a better understanding. A few details here and there are dumb and out of context from within the books facts, but it's the general story that matters. I personally loved the ending that came out on film, and this was good too because the mom now has to deal with her father as opposed to the other ending where he's already dead. However, in the books, neither ending happens. The mother gets married and continues living her life (rich), and the children try to move on, but so many things happen it's insane. If you haven't read the books, you need to!
That was so stupid lol. I'm glad they went with the ending they chose. The mother being hanged by her wedding veil as Cathy is trying to force her to eat the cookie was such sweet revenge!
Nope. I prefer the other other ending. I can see why test audiences was not feeling this ending. The b**** of a mother gets away scot free from deleting her own son, as well as trying to delete her other children so that she can get rich! No way. And while the Grandmother was evil, she was not the architect who this plan in action, the Mother was. And the slasher/horror ending just felt so tacked on.
I agree, I prefer the ending we got. The grandmother wasn't the villain, as evil as she was. The true villain was the mother and got what she deserved. This ending was neat to see but so many things wrong, especially the grandmother butcher knife scene. Just felt....meh.
No, if test audiences were not feeling this ending, than many people would not either. I think that they made the right decision. I mean I like Louise Fletcher, but her going all Jason Voorhees just look laughable.
Not everyone who falls down an elevator shaft dies. Pat Hingle who played Gordon in "Batman" fell down an elevator shaft and lost part of his finger. He climbed up the shaft after he fell.
I think the mom could have been kept alive, but the other ending was somehow simpler in a good way. Yeah, the theatrical one gets dramatic and even campy, but it fits the film better than this. It's almost too comical when their mom is afraid of her dad and that doesn't work.
I actually read about the last book that was written and what's interesting is that in that book the plot from what I read its very similar to this movie. Question sense I wasn't born when this movie came out . The guy that had the drill why did he try killing the children?
She wrote all the books in that series so she probably did a “mistakes repeat themselves” idea? Though I don’t think that they were similar at all but it’s been a while since I read it
The man was hired by the mother to bury the children and I'm sure she planned to have him kill them later. In the books the grandmother was a monster but even the children acknowledged that she was a devout Christian and would never kill them. She even warned them not to eat the donuts which we later found out had arsenic on them from mommy
I think I prefer the ending they went with, despite it being nothing like the book and the director walking out and not having anything to do with the final used ending, it’s definitely a much more satisfying ending.. But it was good to see this ending too… would’ve opened up a chance for ‘Petals in the wind’ sequel to be made, if this ending was used.
The ending I remember was the daughter fighting with the grandma and she ends up falling out of the attic window and on to to metal railing outside and it went right through her chest and I'm 41 I watched it Yeats ago but I remember the ending just like that
I love the wedding in this better. Knowing Corrine will get disinherited again and having no one to turn to, not even her kids, sounds like a more fitting punishment than her dying if you ask me. I agree with others that the grandma trying to kill them was just ridiculous and unnecessary.
@@thechickapedia1175 Thanks. It's just that if the original version doesn't have the will, than the mother's motivations for poisoning them don't make as much sense.
John the butler was a devout Christian in the book and later goes to get revenge on the kids. In the book the grandmother holds Corrine’s murder and attempted murder of her kids over her head. Malcom the grandfather died months before the ending. Cathy kissed her soon to be stepfather as he slept and then goes on to seduce and have sex with him becoming pregnant with his baby. And there’s lots of incest between Chris and Cathy in all the novels. Victoria Tenant who played Corrine was so upset at the used ending where she dies, stormed off the set. I’m glad they went with the ending released and didn’t have the incest story of Chris and Cathy. Certainly stopped any chance of the following books in the series to be made movie sequels. It’s good as a stand alone movie. Imagine if Wes Craven directed this as he was going to. Would be a totally different movie.
Wow, I MUCH prefer this one. The Grandmother got more of what she deserved than she does in the official cut OR the books. Also, since I read the books, I knew that Corrine didn't die until further in the series. I was never satisfied with the "revenge" they got on the Grandmother in the books.
Lord, I hated the actual ending of this movie. Killing a character who'd be vital if you wanted to do the sequels. In this version... what's the blood dripping down on the grandmother?
@@thechickapedia1175 It's been my lifelong dream that someone do Flowers in the Attic as, like, a three-part, six hour miniseries, and follow it up with another six-hour miniseries of Petals On The Wind. Each could EASILY be done at that length, given how much they cover.
The voice-over by Kristy Swanson (Cathy) is left out. "All during the time we stayed at Foxworth Hall, we told ourselves that it was the locked doors and barred windows that kept us from leaving. But it wasn't. It was our love for mother. Loving her had kept us prisoners. Cory was gone and we didn't know then if the poison that took his life would take ours as well. But we made a promise to each other. As long as we lived, we would never look back. And as long as we lived, we would live free."
Powerful.
Thanks so much for this! So much better than the ending they went with. It's a shame because the 1987 movie, despite cutting the incest out was still a good suspenseful adaptation.
Ikr I wish this one was just to see the look on grandpas face and grandma Olivia going insane was great
I prefer this ending. It made it possible for sequels.
I liked this ending better. It show grandfather was never dead. It also showed him getting at corrine. Then the emotion of the grandmother was great. What an evil biddy. Then she got hers too in the room.
According to the re-make, "Grandmother" is claustrophic, being locked in that room, with the blood dripping from the decapitated head, horrifying!
Thanks alot! I didn't even know there was an alternate ending :) Very interesting!
Thank you for uploading this I always wanted to see the alternative ending or other endings besides the one on DVD
In the book the grandfather died way before they ever left the attic
Yeah in the remake they said he was dead for 7 months before they left the attic.
the remake was closer to the source material. i read all of the books, myself.
@@jpbart1390
I've never read the books,
but from what I've heard/read
about them, the remake was
more inclusive of the different
plot points & details from the book,
but the 1987 film had greater,
more compelling performances
& was wonderfully cinematic.
@@laustcawz2089 i have to agree with you on both points.
@@jpbart1390
Not the first time
Victoria Tennant
has played a villain;
check out 1984's "All Of Me".
Not the first time for Fletcher,
either, of course.
Nurse Ratched herself.
Swanson co-stsrred as
a Patty Hearst-type
in 1994's "The Chase"
with Charlie Sheen.
The original ending that director Jeffrey Bloom wrote (it's never been made clear if it was filmed or not), had the kids leaving Foxworth Hall as the wedding was taking place. This second ending was more of a horror/slasher ending (the studio wanted to make this into a horror film; Bloom's take on the story was different). I do like that this ending can be seen now (and a lot of continuity errors that we see in the theatrical ending now make sense, such as the kids looking much paler as they leave the mansion than they did in the theatrical ending). At least Corrine didn't die in this version. It's too bad that more deleted scenes weren't included on the Blu-ray release.
Hopefully, we can get a
novelization that is based
on Jeffrey Bloom's
original vision of the film.
I mean, if certain films like
*"Cruel Jaws"* and the original
*"My Bloody Valentine"* can
get a novelization many years
after they had been released,
why not this one?
Strange but pleasantly surprising to see butler John actually on the children’s side just before the end, as he suddenly intercepts killer Grandma Olivia and stops her ordering her to let them go. Then as he quickly locks her in that enclosed cage-like space (or whatever it is) as she fervently prays for mercy she suddenly feels drops falling on her-BLOOD!-that of the now DEAD CARETAKER! as Cathy, Chris, and Carrie solemnly leave dreadful Grandmother’s house behind them.
I liked that ending too. Although in the book, John Amos (the Butler) was the one that poisoned Olivia against the children.
I know, right? John was so snooty that he couldn't even say hello back to Cory. But then when Cathy and Chris were wandering around the house and they ran into John, he never told the grandmother about them getting out of the bedroom. John was a very mysterious character, but an unlikely hero.
Exactly, up until this point the butler was preventing them from leaving. The butler show little remorse when he took the boy away to "see the doctor" (i.e. take him to be deleted), so it comes out of left field when he stops the Grandmother.
I think in butler John's entire life, no one ever said anything nice to him like Cory did!
In the book Olivia, and John Amos are cousins
This the version I remember. I had a VHS from a family members advance copy.
Judd Hamilton you don’t happen to still have it do you?
@@thechickapedia1175 unfortunately no. She had a chain of Rental stores and her inventory went in the dump after DVDs took over.
Judd Hamilton ugh. I worked at a video store back in the day. That one would have “accidentally” ended up in my purse lol
@@thechickapedia1175 me too lol, i had no idea it was special until watching it on cable several years later and thinking " what the heck did they do to that epic ending"? They did Weird Science the same way.
@@juddhamilton3053 grrrr
5:42 That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen!
Thank you so much for sharing this, I never saw this ending and as allot of people have said, allot better!
This film scared the absolute s**t out of me for years and now at 41, I think I can just about manage it! 🤣
it was never meant to be a campy cheap ending how can you like it better.smh.
ALOT!!
@@johndean4727 It is called preference!!
This is an amazing find. Thanks for posting!
If they would’ve made the bit of Grandma Foxworth coming at them with the knife less campy, this ending would’ve been perfect…
The way she flew through the doorways 😂😂😂
Thank you for your research and sharing of this.
A flying knife wielding granny.
Am I the only one who actually likes this ending? The grandmother with the knife was the only thing I didn't care for but DANG that last twist was EPIC!
The theatrical ending gave Corrine what she deserved, this one exposes her but she lives. It still would have been problematic for a sequel, but this ending is interesting to see. Wish we could have had more deleted scenes.
I loved it too
I would have liked to hear what old malcom actually said
I like this ending. It holds more impact then the film, which didn't need the death. The book was good but leaving a note on a chalk board was useless. Someone likely erased it an hour later when it was noticed before anyone saw it. I don't remember any characters seeing it that mattered to the plot. The grandmother here is out of character of the book for sure.
@@SignOfTheTimes008 Actually, the note on the chalkboard in the attic classroom-“We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, now there are only three” had remained there all that time, over the next twelve years to be exact. It’s November 1960 when Cathy, Chris, and Carrie leave, and Christmas night 1972 when Cathy steals into Foxworth Hall to expose her mother to Bart and the rest of the Christmas party guests(before doing this she goes upstairs to their former “prison,” only to find it EXACTLY the same since they left twelve years ago; she even goes up to the attic(everything there has been absolutely untouched as well), and finally the schoolroom-the aforementioned note on the blackboard, which she herself wrote, to serve as a sort of mystery or even a “time capsule”for anyone who might discover it, is indeed still there, after twelve whole years. (“How was I to know I myself would be the one to discover it, after all this time?” she thinks to herself, upon finding it still there.) Seems after the three surviving grandchildren escaped Foxworth Hall, Grandma Olivia must have thought,”OK, so they escaped and are gone from my life now, the devil’s spawn. Time to bury the past and let it Rest In Peace for good, by keeping this room locked up forever, never to be occupied by anyone else again!”
Wow 😮 😳 My first time ever seeing this ending. Thank you for uploading this one.
This has to be a better ending. During the entire film the grandmother is evil, and she doesn’t get any punishment at the end of the film, yet she does in this ending.
To me, this is not the better ending. The Mother, Corrine, is the one who brought them there. She was the one who was poisoning her own children. One of them died.
Can’t we just agree that they were both cunts?
Her wedding dress was even better!!!
Wow, that was pathetically awful. They really did not understand what made the book scary. Which is more embarrassing, flying killer grandma or "eat the cookie"?
This ending was what the studio insisted on because they thought director Jeffrey Bloom's original ending wasn't dramatic enough. Bloom (who also wrote the screenplay) did understand the book and V.C. Andrews approved his script. Later, of course, the ending was changed again because of a negative reaction from the test audience.
EAT THE COOKIE WAS A CLASSIC!
This is yet another example of "Test audiences are idiots". This is FAR better than the ending we got.
Oh my God. I never saw these scenes. The scene with the handyman was so satisfying, I hated him so much. He never talked, but I couldn't stand him.
This would have been an awesome ending!!!!!! So detailed and I loved how the Grandmother tried to attack them at the end! I know it's nothing like the book but this had a sort of horror flair to it. I know Wes Craven was involved at some point but dropped out. I wonder if this was his ending. Anyhow, thanks for sharing!!!!!
Absoloutley brilliant ending, I’ve been watching this for film years since I was little
First vhs, then dvd and blu ray and never knew this ending existed or that they made multiple ones, this one was perfect they ruined the mothers wedding and left it to the husband and grandfather to decide her fate as inheriting the millions went, and the grandmother as evil and horrific as she was got her comeuppance in that elevator scene, she hated them that much she was willing to kill them rather then allowing them their freedom. I wish this was the true ending now that I’ve seen it!
I like seeing the caretaker get his comeuppance
One thing about this ending: I'll never look at John the butler the same, ever again.
I always felt like John wasn't all bad
R.i.p Louise
What happened to Olivia? I couldn’t understand what was happening with the last scene in the video
It appears she was locked in an old timey elevator where the guy she hired to kill the kids was dripping blood all over her. She must have been freaking out when she realized they killed him.
She's claustrophobic and freaks out due the dead body above her.
In one of the books, she gets pushed into the stairwell (I believe, it’s been ages) leading to the attic and freaks out. I think this was a slight reference to her claustrophobia/that scene
Flying evil grandma!
This is the better ending. I wish they kept in the dvd copy’s
I wish they would stick to one version, LMN has a different version on now and it is difference from the remake.
I wish they would have kept closer to the books
Yeah I'm glad they got rid of this ending.
Nurse Ratched comes to life!
Thanks for uploading this. I do like the initial fight with the groundskeeper and think that could have been kept in. And the fact that Cathy also yelled 'mother' in this version and that Corrine shot her a look. But overall I do like the wedding scene we got, I just wish Corrine didn't die. Maybe have her fall off the balcony and just have her lying on the ground unconscious.
Wow! I found this looking for something else and I had no idea there was a different ending! So that was Malcolm Foxworth at the wedding?
don't care for it, always loved the it when the mother got what was coming to her
Same here. Not to mention here, the way it was originally going to end, with Chris, Cathy, and Carrie encountering and getting hindered by the caretaker after ambushing grandma and escaping their prison. (Of course that was the only part here that was kept for the final draft of the movie as everyone knows-Grandma Olivia entering the grandchildren’s room only to find it oddly clean, quiet, and empty, she looks for the children and no sooner does she open the door going up to the attic than she gets ambushed-THEIR turn to ambush HER!(after the way she had ambushed Cathy earlier, then whacked her silly and cut her precious long hair short.
I think what people aren’t realizing is this is a rough cut so with a matching score and better editing it probably wouldn’t seem so off! The music throws it way off but it’s agree they could have left out crazy grandma she was supposed to be cold and dead not all crazy animated
That ending is better than them leaving Foxworth Hall and I didn't know they had that kind of an ending. The Bulter was one that saved them. The Dollaganger/ Foxworth Family were evil and it reminds me of Armie Hammer's family and they ate people.
Boy Nurse Ratchet, locks kids in attic, shows up on Star Trek Deep space Nine, as a crooked Kai, aligns herself with Gul Dukut and sells her soul to the Pah Wraiths.
Sheesh. I was born in the 80s and saw
it when it came out (theatrical/tv/idk). This movie messed me up.
The mother turned out to be a bastard.And the evil mother twisted bastard.And the old man in the wheel chain,evil as fk, brilliant film& actors& actresses,I seen it in around 88,I thought it was good, brilliant horror.
I thought the theatrical ending was silly. I love the idea of the Mother being left alive to wallow in poverty, and the Grandmother being the one that gets hers. Honestly, this ending was a bit silly too though. Grandma would have been ice cold up to the end. A completely flip out was too far out of character. Neither ending really jives with the pacing of the rest of the movie.
Interesting clip. Thank you. Though that clip, if included would have made this film a supernatural event as opposed to potentially a real life event?
Flowers in the attic is came November 20th,1987!
I like that ending, the guy should have said, you kids go on, get out of here. Like yes, she’s a psycho, they all are, now get.
So who killed the guy in the elevator? John? I guess he started caring for the little brother and I wonder how this would have played out in the sequels if they had made them.
The guy in the elevator died from falling down the shaft after struggling with Christopher.
Very interesting.
Personally, I would have preferred a “mish-mash” of this ending and the one they ended up using - the creepy groundskeeper (I think?) dies, Corrine still gets hung, and Olivia still attacks the kids with a knife but gets overpowered and locked up by the butler. That way, the guests at the wedding know the kids are telling the truth, and the bad guys get what they deserve.
The only thing that bothers me is how Olivia charges at them with that knife - she looks like she’s gliding across the floor.
It DOES look like that; almost like she’s coming at them while on a scooter or something!
It was very 'Carrie' the way they did it.
She just has a thousand tiny legs
This is so much better. its way better revenge to have all of this exposed in front of everyone, being humiliating and embarrassing to both the mother and grandmother. That shot of Louise Fletcher with the knife moving like that is cool too. I don't know why audiences would not have liked this except when this was done they wanted more hardcore action. The whole nature of the story is slow burn and to have the entire wedding crowd witness this is much more satisfying.
they were exposed in the other ending too. I much prefer the ending they chose. I thought this was pretty cheesy. The kids interrupt her wedding in the movie and Cathy tries to force her to eat the cookie and she ends up falling over the balcony and is hanged by her wedding veil. I thought this was super corny but that's just my 2 cents 🙂
I wish you could have heard better what the grandfather was saying
He said, "Bring me my hearing aide, I can't hear shit!"
He said "its all because of your no good pig stealing great-great-grandfather!"
The actor who plays the grandfather played the grandfather Stanley Yelnats the II in the movie HOLES lol
@@Stickitupyourtwat the actor's name was Nathan Davis.
@@danielhainline8882 i know
Apparent the upload. I don’t know why this ending isn’t uploaded on TH-cam in HD
@@deathegg9474 I think I uploaded it before HD was available on youtube. Also, it’s from a vhs transfer so I’m sure that wouldn’t make much of a difference
Wow! I have never seen this and I’ve watched this movie a million times. The mothers dress is different and who is that old man holding her back? The grandfather? Where did u find this?!
Plus the grandmother with the knife is over the top. I didn’t like it.
This is the original ending, it was included on the Arrow blu-ray edition
Watch flower in the attacks origins. It explains the grandmothers beginnings. And although it's not an excuse as to it being ok why she did these things, you get a better understanding. A few details here and there are dumb and out of context from within the books facts, but it's the general story that matters. I personally loved the ending that came out on film, and this was good too because the mom now has to deal with her father as opposed to the other ending where he's already dead. However, in the books, neither ending happens. The mother gets married and continues living her life (rich), and the children try to move on, but so many things happen it's insane. If you haven't read the books, you need to!
That was so stupid lol. I'm glad they went with the ending they chose. The mother being hanged by her wedding veil as Cathy is trying to force her to eat the cookie was such sweet revenge!
Nope. I prefer the other other ending. I can see why test audiences was not feeling this ending. The b**** of a mother gets away scot free from deleting her own son, as well as trying to delete her other children so that she can get rich! No way. And while the Grandmother was evil, she was not the architect who this plan in action, the Mother was. And the slasher/horror ending just felt so tacked on.
I agree, I prefer the ending we got. The grandmother wasn't the villain, as evil as she was. The true villain was the mother and got what she deserved. This ending was neat to see but so many things wrong, especially the grandmother butcher knife scene. Just felt....meh.
This would have been a much better ending than what they went with.
No, if test audiences were not feeling this ending, than many people would not either. I think that they made the right decision. I mean I like Louise Fletcher, but her going all Jason Voorhees just look laughable.
I can honestly see why that ending was scrapped.
Granny on that skateboard 🛹
Not everyone who falls down an elevator shaft dies. Pat Hingle who played Gordon in "Batman" fell down an elevator shaft and lost part of his finger. He climbed up the shaft after he fell.
Was he able to get that part of his finger back?
@@derossetmyers47no. I watched movies and TV shows with him and he never got the finger replaced.
What happened to the mother at the Wedding when the kids walk away?
I could faintly hear her continuing to protest.
To say over the top is an understatement. 😆
I think the mom could have been kept alive, but the other ending was somehow simpler in a good way. Yeah, the theatrical one gets dramatic and even campy, but it fits the film better than this. It's almost too comical when their mom is afraid of her dad and that doesn't work.
How did you get this alternate ending? It’s so different from the shorter ending that I remember. The mother dies by accidental fall.
It’s on the arrow Blu-ray in the special features
I love how her father saw right through his overly-dramatic daughter's bullshit. This original ending is superb, wish they chose this one instead.
Good but it's no classic like "Eat the cookie".
Is Granny on wheels? Is Johnny Cash playing a butler?
Chiller ending like in the movie Carrie. I love this ending
Oh man, this is wretched
I can see why they changed this, it really makes no sense and is incredibly cheesy.
Idk if you can hear me laughing but when the grandmother GROWLS. I lose it every time
@@thechickapedia1175 Louise felt this ending was her personal favorite.
I actually read about the last book that was written and what's interesting is that in that book the plot from what I read its very similar to this movie. Question sense I wasn't born when this movie came out . The guy that had the drill why did he try killing the children?
She wrote all the books in that series so she probably did a “mistakes repeat themselves” idea? Though I don’t think that they were similar at all but it’s been a while since I read it
@@thechickapedia1175 oh ok.
The man was hired by the mother to bury the children and I'm sure she planned to have him kill them later. In the books the grandmother was a monster but even the children acknowledged that she was a devout Christian and would never kill them. She even warned them not to eat the donuts which we later found out had arsenic on them from mommy
@Paul O'Brien okay. Thanks for clearing that up.
I prefer the ending they went with, the grandmother with the knife looks ridiculous and despite corinne living in the book i loved seeing her die.
Whats wrong with the camara you cant see whats going on
That’s just how it looks
It must've been the studio's Camera while they made the film long time ago
I think I prefer the ending they went with, despite it being nothing like the book and the director walking out and not having anything to do with the final used ending, it’s definitely a much more satisfying ending..
But it was good to see this ending too… would’ve opened up a chance for ‘Petals in the wind’ sequel to be made, if this ending was used.
The grandmother with the knife... why why why??!!! 🤭
The ending I remember was the daughter fighting with the grandma and she ends up falling out of the attic window and on to to metal railing outside and it went right through her chest and I'm 41 I watched it Yeats ago but I remember the ending just like that
Are you sure you're not mixing that up with The Hand That Rocks The Cradle?
Now I REMEMBER the original ending. I think it makes better since then the remake. Due to their MOTHER dying in the second book.
She died in the third book.
I'm glad they didn't go with this ending
Whos the old man in the wheelchair
More interesting ending
Smart enough to archive it on Beta, but not smart enough to take care of the tape. 😔
I love the wedding in this better. Knowing Corrine will get disinherited again and having no one to turn to, not even her kids, sounds like a more fitting punishment than her dying if you ask me. I agree with others that the grandma trying to kill them was just ridiculous and unnecessary.
Was the scene of them discovering the grandfather's will in this version?
Not that I can recall. I’ll check what I have for deleted scenes and if there’s anything as alternate as this I’ll post it.
@@thechickapedia1175 Thanks. It's just that if the original version doesn't have the will, than the mother's motivations for poisoning them don't make as much sense.
John the butler was a devout Christian in the book and later goes to get revenge on the kids. In the book the grandmother holds Corrine’s murder and attempted murder of her kids over her head. Malcom the grandfather died months before the ending. Cathy kissed her soon to be stepfather as he slept and then goes on to seduce and have sex with him becoming pregnant with his baby. And there’s lots of incest between Chris and Cathy in all the novels. Victoria Tenant who played Corrine was so upset at the used ending where she dies, stormed off the set.
I’m glad they went with the ending released and didn’t have the incest story of Chris and Cathy. Certainly stopped any chance of the following books in the series to be made movie sequels. It’s good as a stand alone movie. Imagine if Wes Craven directed this as he was going to. Would be a totally different movie.
Wes Cravens script is actually available online. It doesn’t really follow the book either.
7:02, You can go now!
eBay?
Special features on the arrow bluray
Wow, I MUCH prefer this one. The Grandmother got more of what she deserved than she does in the official cut OR the books. Also, since I read the books, I knew that Corrine didn't die until further in the series. I was never satisfied with the "revenge" they got on the Grandmother in the books.
@@DarkWillUser I think you’re in the minority but I love your reasoning! I should reupload it.
@@thechickapedia1175 thanks!
Grandmother put on her rollerskates to go in for the kill 😂
Corrines dress in this scene is actually kinda pretty but in the chosen ending that dress is heinous and headiuos.
Lord, I hated the actual ending of this movie. Killing a character who'd be vital if you wanted to do the sequels. In this version... what's the blood dripping down on the grandmother?
It’s from the guy who was shoved into the elevator shaft
@@thechickapedia1175 It's been my lifelong dream that someone do Flowers in the Attic as, like, a three-part, six hour miniseries, and follow it up with another six-hour miniseries of Petals On The Wind. Each could EASILY be done at that length, given how much they cover.
I’m confused, why was she bleeding? Like what causes this?
Is it the blood from the guy who Chris was fighting in the hallway?
@@joehaselden2715 Yes, the caretaker.
The endong was satisfying, but there is no way that Olivia would try to stab the children with a house full of people
2:39 it’s like her neck cracked lol
4:18 his neck cracked too
I'm surprised that John Amos stopped the horrid grandmother!
This ending just did not mesh well with the rest of the film. I can see why they didn't choose it. It's like a cheesy Friday the 13th scene lol.
"John" was alright.
The grandfather didn't die?
no. she became a Bajoran religious leader
Was that Cory's head in the chandelier?
It was the man who fell when the door opened . When he was fighting Chris
Why would they keep Cory in the house after all that time ? He was buried in the backyard
Cory was sweet. The face in the chandelier was evil!
I wasn't sure at first, but you're right. Creepy ending!
@@joehaselden2715 Still creepy!
I like this ending better, more trauma and drama.
Oh so john amos wasnt so bad after all hmm interesting i always had him pegged for a sellout
Cory was the only one who greeted John Amos when he first saw him. I don't think anyone ever spoke nicely to John before.
This is also a more believable dress for Corrine the other was ugly
Where can it be found?
It’s on the arrow Blu-ray special edition!
@@thechickapedia1175 I just got my copy signed 2 weeks ago
I would have liked it more if the Grandma was locked in the cage with the Man Bear Pig from RDR2.