Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
After four V.C. Andrews movies — and the original Flowers in the Attic — nothing should surprise you. Any happy ending that the Dollanganger family finds will always be ruined in the very next film. Thirteen years later, Cathy and Chris are invited to Foxworth Hall, the same place they spent their childhood imprisoned within. Bart is […]
Panic Beats (1983)
Sam’s note: I’m really excited that R.D Francis has written something for our site. We met through him listening to our podcast and bonded over our mutual love of Italian films and obscure 80’s metal. This is his first — and I hope not the last — article for us. When it comes to the opinions […]
If There Be Thorns (2015)
Let’s say you slept with your brother, watched your husband die, then set your childhood prison on fire, which sent your mother to the looney bin and your grandmother to hell. What would you do next? This part of the Dollanganger series is set in the 1970’s. It looks like it — cinematographer James Liston […]
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Donald Petrie has directed plenty of movies you may know, even if you don’t know him. Mystic Pizza, Grumpy Old Men, Richie Rich, My Favorite Martian, Miss Congeniality, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days…he’s made some memorable films. This effort is from the time when Dana Carvey was a star on Saturday Night Live, but before Wayne’s World made […]
Petals on the Wind (2014)
Ten years after escaping from their mother, the surviving Dollanganger children — Cathy, Chris and Carrie — have tried to move on with their lives. But now, Cathy decides that enough is enough. She’s finally ready to take her horrible revenge on her mother, vengeance that was only hinted upon in the first film. After […]
Brainscan (1994)
Director John Flynn’s 1977 film Rolling Thunder has been cited several times by Quentin Tarantino as a major influence (The Acuna Boys in Kill Bill are taken directly from this film). Here, he’s directing a script by Brian Owens and Andrew Kevin Walker (who would go on to write Seven, Hideaway and 8mm). Michael Brower (Edward Furlong) lives alone in a mansion […]
Flowers In the Attic (2014)
Has any author been more made for Lifetime than V.C. Andrews? Nope. So it was no surprise when the network announced that four movies based on the Dollanganger saga would begin airing on its network in 2014. Unlike the 1987 theatrical film, the ending follows the book. Of course, it’s the same basic story of […]
Mindwarp (1992)
In the post-apocalyptic world of 2037, the world relies on computer fantasies to entertain themselves. A glitch sends our heroine, Judy, to a far-off wasteland to battle monsters called Crawlers. A young rebel named Stover(Bruce Campbell) saves her, but the pair are later captured and brought underground by the Crawlers to face the Seer(Angus Scrimm), […]
Flowers In the Attic (1987)
It’s impossible to describe how ubiquitous Flowers In the Attic and the novels of V.C. Andrews was if you grew up in the early 1980’s. The 1979 novel that this film is based upon is but the first of the eight books in the Dollanganger series. But before we get into the film, let’s discuss […]
The Bastards’ Fig Tree (2017)
Rogelio is a powerful fascist soldier in the Spanish Civil War who has no issue killing anyone who doesn’t agree with the new regime. One night, as he kills a man and his sixteen-year-old son, that man’s ten-year-old son locks eyes with him, giving our antagonist feelings of extreme guilt and something much worse — terror. He’s […]
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