Great video. I had a neighbor years ago who looked exactly like the grandmother. Thing was, she was a very nice lady and nothing at all like the monster in this movie. Grew up with this movie and read the books. They're insane.
18:34 He thought she was her mother, that's why he called her Corrine. For the record, there's a prequel book where we find out that he hated his own mother, also called Corinne, but he called his wife that name on their wedding night just as he'd finished....you know....
The story from the book is the mom was disinherited because she ran off with her own uncle. And Chris and Cathy hook up and wind up together at the end of the series of books. The source material is way more disturbing than this movie lol I believe Cathy gets her revenge by seducing the man her mom married.
I watched this so much as a kid, haven’t seen it in years. Thank you for reacting to it! The grandmother is seriously scary 😂 You guys should react to the thriller movie the others
Thank you Nichole for the comment and support !!, yeah the grandmother was a first-class B***h, and the effect of her character is especially strong when you know people like her haha.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was obsessed with these novels as a teen. The films are insulting to the books….her descriptive writing and character development were outstanding. The individuals seem so real thar you forget they’re fictional. Really good reads
I loved your reaction to the grandmother it was funny how you were like "Uh climb your ass back up" LOL. It would be interesting to see your reaction to a movie called The Brotherhood II: Young Warlocks.
I only read like a few pages of the book, because the movie made you want to know what other details of mistreatment did they go through because of their mother and grandmother. I've seen all 3 miniseries based on this family. It's crazy.
Cool reaction ~ this movie was on TV all the time when I was a little kid in the late 80s and early 90s.... they also did a remake of this made by Lifetime in around 2014.... and the grandmother in the new version is played by Ellen Burstyn who was Regan's mom in 'The Exorcist' (1973)
The flowers in the attic was based on Kathy's version of everything and there was a book that had the the brothers version called Christopher's diary's and another called secret brother that shows Corey didn't die but infact had a pretty nice life
corey not dying doesnt make any sense because when cathy revisited the house later she mentions that there was a room and a trunk i believe that smelled of death and she knew her brothers body was there.
Thanks for the reaction! Hope you'll do more in the future. How about "Argo"? I think this version is better than the original book or the other movie. The basis of this drama is mother/daughter conflict, much like father vs. son stories. I don't remember if this movie gave the clues, but mom was getting more and more jealous of her daughter, of her youth and beauty, especially since the daughter was father's absolute favorite.
I've only recently discovered your channel, and the biggest draw was that you have a lot of movies very few, if any, other people react to. It's refreshing. 😊 This title, in particular, was shocking to see, but in a good way. V.C. Andrews writes some really disturbing shit, and this movie is watered down compared to the book, haha. Really enjoying your channel, I hope you keep sprinkling in stuff that no one else is watching. 😉
The twist in this movie is that the Grandmother was actually the good one, and she was mad because the daughters children were from her gran-dads half brother.
You probably should know that this movie cut out the incest scene between Chris and Cathy for some odd reason. Considering their incestuous romance was the core of the story from the book, it really didn't make sense.
I honestly thought that’s where the movie was going with their chemistry !!. It was weird and odd and I was thinking that, that’s where it was leading. Thanks for the comment !.
@@JCARTSARTS982 You're welcome! Yes, originally the incest was going to figure heavily in the movie, considering that Wes Craven was originally going to direct the movie and wrote the original screenplay adaptation from the book. Wes' version was going to be much more horror-oriented, but also more faithful to the book in terms of Chris and Cathy's romance, but his script was rejected for some reason by the studio and Craven left the project. When Jeffrey Bloom was hired as director, he wrote his own treatment and did film an incest scene between Chris and Cathy, but it got cut out because the studio was skittish about including the scene. In case you're wondering, it's the scene after Chris and Cathy spy on their mother at the party downstairs accepting the ring from her finance, when Chris and Cathy are alone in the attic and he embraces her as she walks to him and wraps her arms around him... and then a sudden fade to black. What happened after that moment never made it to the theatrical release, and there are no known copies of the deleted scene.
@@JCARTSARTS982 Yeah, I think Wes took some of his ideas for his Flowers In The Attic screenplay and put them into his 1990 movie, The People Under The Stairs.
The only problem I had with this movie, was that there was no character who I felt sympathy with. Years later, I had a girlfriend who was as fangirl about this and its book series, as I was to Ghostbusters. We didn't last long together
I didn't really like anyone in this, either! The book makes them even less likeable, including/especially the twins. They were obnoxious little brats. It's a good, albeit twisted and disturbing, book, but you can't warm to any of the characters.
This is one of the reason I have both respect and can be freaked out by Louise Fletcher at the same time. I saw this one before One Flew so this was the start lol.
This movie, the remake and the sequels to the remake, they're all movies that you can see the faults from a mile away as far as filmmaking goes rather than as stories go, but you keep coming back to it. Or maybe that's just me
Uh...side note: A man is easily the match of a dog, if he moves quick -- before the others get in on it. Others see a decisive overpower, they'll think again before jumping to attack.
Watched this so much as a kid...movies dark af..little incest throw in..the original ending the mom didn't die and the grandma tries to stab them at the end but the butler stops her...
Christopher is supposed to be 14 in the book and maybe 18 in this film but he looks 30 or older 😂 seriously, he looks more like my boyfriend than any teenager I’ve ever seen
The film altered the ages of the kids - Cathy is 14 and Christopher is 16, possibly because the original cut contained more of the incestuous relationship. The actor was actually only 25, and people in their 20s playing teenagers is very common, as minors can only work three hours a day.
I was born in 1981, I've seen the original Flowers in the Attic movie that came out in 1987, way better than the stupid versions of 2017 and 2022, but if you want the entire story, like the shit they leave behind when turning a book into a movie, read the book where this movie originated from by V.C. Andrews. The book has more explicit detail, doesn't leave out the scene where Cathy and Chris fuck in the attic while the twins are sleeping, the book is WAY better than the movies. But, out of all versions of the movie, the one with Louise Fletcher is better. Read the book first.
@@JCARTSARTS982 your welcome and you are so young to be able to see thru that type of bullshit immediately, where some ppl have to walk thru a cow pasture to know shit stinks.
No, she got whipped by her mother (Louise Fletcher, the grandmother of the children) for the incestuous relationship and marriage she had with her uncle. She was to be whipped as a consequence of marrying and reproducing with her uncle, her kids are considered abominations of God, for being born by incestuous parents, and the grandfather is never told these children exist, or she would have never been back in her father's good graces. The grandmother despises Corrin's children, for they were not created by two strangers who don't share the same DNA. To clean the shame of the family, Corrin gets whipped, the grandmother poisons the childrens' food by sprinkling rat poison on top of the cookies they eat, they all get sick and the twins die. You have to watch the entire movie from beginning to end. In the book, the grandmother catches Cathy naked in the bathtub while Chris sits beside her and they're not supposed to be in the bathroom together, so the grandmother puts tar in Cathy's hair, because she knew that Cathy loved her long hair. The book is more cruel than the movie.
Actually only Corey dies in Flowers in the Attic. Carrie lives but her growth is forever stunted by the continuous arsenic poisoning. I even want to say that Corinne is the one that poisoned their cookies.
This movie used to be on t.v all the time growing up. I have read the entire series. Lol, honestly I think most girls I knew in high school had. I've read quite a bit of VC Andrews in high school and my early 20's. Most of her books would be seen as quite scandalous. This is the only books series from VC Andrews that I still own. I know they did a remake of this movie for the Lifetime channel and may have continued the storyline since there are 5 books in this series and at least two others books that are kind of part of the franchise but not really. I guess it's more spin-off. Lol, this whole franchise is hella disturbing and the movie only shows like a fraction of it. They mention that the grandmother didn't feed them for over a week...in the book when the food was gone Chris had to resort to feeding them his blood so that they didn't starve.
In the original ending The grandfather never passed away and Corine was busted because the grandfather saw the children which means that Corine is disinherited and the three kids Christopher Cathy and Carrie leave the mansion and live out the rest of their lives like in the theatrical version. It does however never shows if Corine gets arrested for the murder of of the youngest Cory. It was never told.
In the second book of the series it's revealed that Corrinne was living a happy and wealthy life for years with her second husband Bart. She did lose her sanity near the end of the second book and was institutionalized, however.
When this movie was first being planned & discussed, it was going to be the next project for horror filmmaker Wes Craven. There were lots of arguments, changes & deletions before the final product emerged. This should be released as part of The Criterion Collection, as should "The Last American Virgin" & "Morgan Stewart's Coming Home". th-cam.com/video/TvPunm7lPPo/w-d-xo.html
This movie made me cry and feel all kinds of emotions and sick to my stomach that some people can do such a thing. The mom was the biggest piece of trash and leaving her children to die in the attic. Plus, the fear of people who are strict like the grandmother. Christianity believers and the fact that some can take this far just makes me sick. I am glad I am Pagan not a Chirstian.
It's a little cheesy and soap opera-ey in the acting, but you should still check out the 2014 remake- it sticks closer to the book, especially with the ending, which never satisfied me in this version.
Your seeming to miss the context here. This movie is half gothic horror genre flick, but the neglect of the children and abuse (sexual, physical, emotional, phycological, financial) going on is more along the lines of a serious realistic psychological family drama. It seems to me the mother was probably always abused, or abused a great deal before leaving the house, and then she, in turn, neglects and abuses the next generation.
Yeah, entertaining movie. But not great. I probably like it more than I should because the novels were a very good read. They made a remake too. Better in some parts, worse in others. The remake mother and grandmother weren't as good as the 2 actresses here.
These stories tend to treat female villains deserving of punishment as some kind of nature-defying shock that never goes stale, no matter how poorly their characterization is drawn. That kind of writing ,intentionally or otherwise, likes to punishing or condemn any female characters we get to see going after or gaining much autonomy and power. It easily lends credibility to baseless anxieties that women having power is unnatural and doomed to fail or lead to corruption. By all means, lets write female villains that shake us to the core. But couldn't we please make them more interesting than this? I'm pretty sure this grandma and the mother in "Carrie" were raised by the same vaguely defined, bible thumping, puritan abuse cult. Maybe that's an 80s horror movie thing. At this point, the trope feels so tired It'd be quite plot the twist if a black-clad, high-collared bible-carrying character like this turned out to be secretly trying to save the day from the shadows.
"I don't hit women." ?! I would kind of hope you don't hit humans. But if it's ever worth getting violent, I would kinda hope you could keep unnecessary sexism out of what really should be more about personal safety than anything else.
*I don't care if someone is a man or a woman. I am hitting whoever hits me first, and I think that's kinda what he meant. He was not being sexist at all!!! The reason why he only said women instead of saying that he doesn't hit men or women is because of the fact that the grandmother was a female and not a man.*
Great video. I had a neighbor years ago who looked exactly like the grandmother. Thing was, she was a very nice lady and nothing at all like the monster in this movie. Grew up with this movie and read the books. They're insane.
18:34 He thought she was her mother, that's why he called her Corrine. For the record, there's a prequel book where we find out that he hated his own mother, also called Corinne, but he called his wife that name on their wedding night just as he'd finished....you know....
I love the books 😂 really liked the prequel
The story from the book is the mom was disinherited because she ran off with her own uncle. And Chris and Cathy hook up and wind up together at the end of the series of books. The source material is way more disturbing than this movie lol I believe Cathy gets her revenge by seducing the man her mom married.
@@Adrasdea I need to reread the series. It is trashy fun haha
She does, but Chris Sr. was Corinne's half-brother, not her uncle.
@@edithisaok580 Oh yeah. Been a while
@@edithisaok580 no, I'm reading the book rn, Corrine specifically says he was her half uncle
@@IlmurOsp read Garden of Shadows and you will find out that they are half brother and sister.
That grandmother played Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Now that is a movie you should react to.
I was gonna say the same thing lol. Louise Fletcher is a legend and going head to head with Jack Nicholson is nothing less then a masterpiece.
That explains a lot ,God this woman's acting was Top Tier ❤
I watched this so much as a kid, haven’t seen it in years. Thank you for reacting to it! The grandmother is seriously scary 😂 You guys should react to the thriller movie the others
Thank you Nichole for the comment and support !!, yeah the grandmother was a first-class B***h, and the effect of her character is especially strong when you know people like her haha.
I love your reaction to the grandmother!
Haha thank you for the comment and support :) !!. Yes lmao
Respect the grandmother
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was obsessed with these novels as a teen. The films are insulting to the books….her descriptive writing and character development were outstanding. The individuals seem so real thar you forget they’re fictional. Really good reads
i only felt sympathy for the kids because they didnt ask to born under the circumstances they were
I loved your reaction to the grandmother it was funny how you were like "Uh climb your ass back up" LOL. It would be interesting to see your reaction to a movie called The Brotherhood II: Young Warlocks.
I only read like a few pages of the book, because the movie made you want to know what other details of mistreatment did they go through because of their mother and grandmother.
I've seen all 3 miniseries based on this family. It's crazy.
Cool reaction ~ this movie was on TV all the time when I was a little kid in the late 80s and early 90s.... they also did a remake of this made by Lifetime in around 2014.... and the grandmother in the new version is played by Ellen Burstyn who was Regan's mom in 'The Exorcist' (1973)
The flowers in the attic was based on Kathy's version of everything and there was a book that had the the brothers version called Christopher's diary's and another called secret brother that shows Corey didn't die but infact had a pretty nice life
corey not dying doesnt make any sense because when cathy revisited the house later she mentions that there was a room and a trunk i believe that smelled of death and she knew her brothers body was there.
Thanks for the reaction! Hope you'll do more in the future. How about "Argo"?
I think this version is better than the original book or the other movie. The basis of this drama is mother/daughter conflict, much like father vs. son stories. I don't remember if this movie gave the clues, but mom was getting more and more jealous of her daughter, of her youth and beauty, especially since the daughter was father's absolute favorite.
Hey thank you for your awesome comment, I will put Argo on my recommended list :) !!!.
I've only recently discovered your channel, and the biggest draw was that you have a lot of movies very few, if any, other people react to. It's refreshing. 😊
This title, in particular, was shocking to see, but in a good way. V.C. Andrews writes some really disturbing shit, and this movie is watered down compared to the book, haha. Really enjoying your channel, I hope you keep sprinkling in stuff that no one else is watching. 😉
The twist in this movie is that the Grandmother was actually the good one, and she was mad because the daughters children were from her gran-dads half brother.
I love your reaction to louise fletcher is the grandmother u should gets lifetime version of flowers in the attic
You probably should know that this movie cut out the incest scene between Chris and Cathy for some odd reason. Considering their incestuous romance was the core of the story from the book, it really didn't make sense.
I honestly thought that’s where the movie was going with their chemistry !!. It was weird and odd and I was thinking that, that’s where it was leading. Thanks for the comment !.
@@JCARTSARTS982 You're welcome! Yes, originally the incest was going to figure heavily in the movie, considering that Wes Craven was originally going to direct the movie and wrote the original screenplay adaptation from the book. Wes' version was going to be much more horror-oriented, but also more faithful to the book in terms of Chris and Cathy's romance, but his script was rejected for some reason by the studio and Craven left the project. When Jeffrey Bloom was hired as director, he wrote his own treatment and did film an incest scene between Chris and Cathy, but it got cut out because the studio was skittish about including the scene.
In case you're wondering, it's the scene after Chris and Cathy spy on their mother at the party downstairs accepting the ring from her finance, when Chris and Cathy are alone in the attic and he embraces her as she walks to him and wraps her arms around him... and then a sudden fade to black. What happened after that moment never made it to the theatrical release, and there are no known copies of the deleted scene.
@@44excalibur oh wow Wes Craven would have done a great job !!!
@@JCARTSARTS982 Yeah, I think Wes took some of his ideas for his Flowers In The Attic screenplay and put them into his 1990 movie, The People Under The Stairs.
@@44excalibur that makes a lot of sense!!, now People under the stairs is a terrific film lol.
Good review and reaction! Truly a sick, twisted movie!
The only problem I had with this movie, was that there was no character who I felt sympathy with. Years later, I had a girlfriend who was as fangirl about this and its book series, as I was to Ghostbusters. We didn't last long together
I didn't really like anyone in this, either! The book makes them even less likeable, including/especially the twins. They were obnoxious little brats. It's a good, albeit twisted and disturbing, book, but you can't warm to any of the characters.
@@jazflanagan8693 i mean they’re little kids locked away in an attic💀
This is one of the reason I have both respect and can be freaked out by Louise Fletcher at the same time. I saw this one before One Flew so this was the start lol.
No one plays crazy, evil witch like Louise Fletcher. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, DS9, etc.
The grandmother is played by Louise Fletcher,
who'd won an Oscar for playing Nurse Ratched
in 1975's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".
At least they eventually escaped at the end.
This movie, the remake and the sequels to the remake, they're all movies that you can see the faults from a mile away as far as filmmaking goes rather than as stories go, but you keep coming back to it. Or maybe that's just me
didn't know about any remakes or sequels but I've seen this one a few times
You should watch the remake next and it’s sequels
Uh...side note: A man is easily the match of a dog, if he moves quick -- before the others get in on it. Others see a decisive overpower, they'll think again before jumping to attack.
24:12 And that is why you don't wear long veils.
RIP Louise Fletcher "The Grandmother"
Watched this so much as a kid...movies dark af..little incest throw in..the original ending the mom didn't die and the grandma tries to stab them at the end but the butler stops her...
Christopher is supposed to be 14 in the book and maybe 18 in this film but he looks 30 or older 😂 seriously, he looks more like my boyfriend than any teenager I’ve ever seen
The film altered the ages of the kids - Cathy is 14 and Christopher is 16, possibly because the original cut contained more of the incestuous relationship. The actor was actually only 25, and people in their 20s playing teenagers is very common, as minors can only work three hours a day.
I would have preferred the original ending where the mother didn't die (like in the book) and the grandmother came after them with a knife.
That movie is terrifying.
I was born in 1981, I've seen the original Flowers in the Attic movie that came out in 1987, way better than the stupid versions of 2017 and 2022, but if you want the entire story, like the shit they leave behind when turning a book into a movie, read the book where this movie originated from by V.C. Andrews. The book has more explicit detail, doesn't leave out the scene where Cathy and Chris fuck in the attic while the twins are sleeping, the book is WAY better than the movies. But, out of all versions of the movie, the one with Louise Fletcher is better. Read the book first.
your'e a pretty good judge of character young man. i like.
Thank you Truth decay that means a lot !!
@@JCARTSARTS982 your welcome and you are so young to be able to see thru that type of bullshit immediately, where some ppl have to walk thru a cow pasture to know shit stinks.
No, she got whipped by her mother (Louise Fletcher, the grandmother of the children) for the incestuous relationship and marriage she had with her uncle. She was to be whipped as a consequence of marrying and reproducing with her uncle, her kids are considered abominations of God, for being born by incestuous parents, and the grandfather is never told these children exist, or she would have never been back in her father's good graces. The grandmother despises Corrin's children, for they were not created by two strangers who don't share the same DNA. To clean the shame of the family, Corrin gets whipped, the grandmother poisons the childrens' food by sprinkling rat poison on top of the cookies they eat, they all get sick and the twins die. You have to watch the entire movie from beginning to end. In the book, the grandmother catches Cathy naked in the bathtub while Chris sits beside her and they're not supposed to be in the bathroom together, so the grandmother puts tar in Cathy's hair, because she knew that Cathy loved her long hair. The book is more cruel than the movie.
Actually only Corey dies in Flowers in the Attic. Carrie lives but her growth is forever stunted by the continuous arsenic poisoning. I even want to say that Corinne is the one that poisoned their cookies.
@@LaTashaGreenlee You are right, Carrie survived the attic. Carrie died in the second book of the series.
Just brought up this movie
This movie used to be on t.v all the time growing up. I have read the entire series. Lol, honestly I think most girls I knew in high school had. I've read quite a bit of VC Andrews in high school and my early 20's. Most of her books would be seen as quite scandalous. This is the only books series from VC Andrews that I still own. I know they did a remake of this movie for the Lifetime channel and may have continued the storyline since there are 5 books in this series and at least two others books that are kind of part of the franchise but not really. I guess it's more spin-off. Lol, this whole franchise is hella disturbing and the movie only shows like a fraction of it. They mention that the grandmother didn't feed them for over a week...in the book when the food was gone Chris had to resort to feeding them his blood so that they didn't starve.
You are so funny 😂😂😂
I'm a first-time subscriber, and wanted to know do you take requests on movies? Or are these just movies you know you haven't seen?
In the original ending The grandfather never passed away and Corine was busted because the grandfather saw the children which means that Corine is disinherited and the three kids Christopher Cathy and Carrie leave the mansion and live out the rest of their lives like in the theatrical version. It does however never shows if Corine gets arrested for the murder of of the youngest Cory. It was never told.
In the second book of the series it's revealed that Corrinne was living a happy and wealthy life for years with her second husband Bart. She did lose her sanity near the end of the second book and was institutionalized, however.
The books were so much better and the mom did not die. The series is so twisted
When this movie was first being planned
& discussed, it was going to be the next project
for horror filmmaker Wes Craven.
There were lots of arguments, changes
& deletions before the final product emerged.
This should be released as part
of The Criterion Collection, as should
"The Last American Virgin"
& "Morgan Stewart's Coming Home".
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This movie made me cry and feel all kinds of emotions and sick to my stomach that some people can do such a thing. The mom was the biggest piece of trash and leaving her children to die in the attic. Plus, the fear of people who are strict like the grandmother. Christianity believers and the fact that some can take this far just makes me sick. I am glad I am Pagan not a Chirstian.
well...off the bat, you need to know the parents are actually brother and sister
React to the new one please also the 2nd 3rd and 4th
This movie is so frickin cheesy but it feels like there is a decent story buried in there somewhere. I've never read the book so idk.
U should read the book and then show your reactiom
It's a little cheesy and soap opera-ey in the acting, but you should still check out the 2014 remake- it sticks closer to the book, especially with the ending, which never satisfied me in this version.
Or maybe it was this version I thought was like a soap opera? Either way, the 2014 one is worth checking out, in my opinion.
Your seeming to miss the context here. This movie is half gothic horror genre flick, but the neglect of the children and abuse (sexual, physical, emotional, phycological, financial) going on is more along the lines of a serious realistic psychological family drama. It seems to me the mother was probably always abused, or abused a great deal before leaving the house, and then she, in turn, neglects and abuses the next generation.
I liked the Lifetime movies based on these books better.
Yeah, entertaining movie. But not great. I probably like it more than I should because the novels were a very good read. They made a remake too. Better in some parts, worse in others. The remake mother and grandmother weren't as good as the 2 actresses here.
Movies like this, just too disturbing for me.
These stories tend to treat female villains deserving of punishment as some kind of nature-defying shock that never goes stale, no matter how poorly their characterization is drawn. That kind of writing ,intentionally or otherwise, likes to punishing or condemn any female characters we get to see going after or gaining much autonomy and power. It easily lends credibility to baseless anxieties that women having power is unnatural and doomed to fail or lead to corruption.
By all means, lets write female villains that shake us to the core. But couldn't we please make them more interesting than this? I'm pretty sure this grandma and the mother in "Carrie" were raised by the same vaguely defined, bible thumping, puritan abuse cult. Maybe that's an 80s horror movie thing. At this point, the trope feels so tired It'd be quite plot the twist if a black-clad, high-collared bible-carrying character like this turned out to be secretly trying to save the day from the shadows.
I don't like the remake 2014 version. I prefer this version.
Dont watch it then
"I don't hit women." ?! I would kind of hope you don't hit humans. But if it's ever worth getting violent, I would kinda hope you could keep unnecessary sexism out of what really should be more about personal safety than anything else.
*I don't care if someone is a man or a woman. I am hitting whoever hits me first, and I think that's kinda what he meant. He was not being sexist at all!!! The reason why he only said women instead of saying that he doesn't hit men or women is because of the fact that the grandmother was a female and not a man.*