Based on V.C. Andrews series about Dollanganger children. Tennant (Best Seller) was psychologically and physically tortured by her crazy mother who was jealous of her daughters good looks. When he daughter falls in love and gets married her parents disown her. She and her husband have four kids. When he dies the mother is not able to take care of herself and goes back to her parents. She hopes to get back into the good graces of her father in order to inherit his money. Her mother tells her that she must hide her children away until the death. The kids are locked in the family attic. They are slowly being poisoned by their grandmother - the youngest boy dies. Fletcher (Cruel Intentions) is the grandmother who also attempts to break the kids spirit because they too are very pretty/handsome. With no human contact except each other the oldest boy and girl (Swanson from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) form an intimate relationship. Not too long after their brother dies they decide to escape and discover that their grandfather died a long time ago, and their mom has left them and married another man. All in all, I say: READ IT and then WATCH IT if you like that kind of horror. I do classify it as horror - you have to remember the time period as you read/watch.
I foolishly thought that Lifetime would only remake the movie if they were going to update it or make it into a series. Did I mention I was fooled. So, it was remade and it was worse than the original. There was a lot left out and the acting was so bad. Graham (Twin Peaks) was bad as the mother, Burstyn (The Exorcist) was bad, and Shipka (Mad Men) was bad. She acted the way she does in Mad Men which isn't go great. I thought it was boring. All in all, I say: SKIP IT
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