According to the re-make, "Grandmother" is claustrophic, being locked in that room, with the blood dripping from the decapitated head, horrifying!

Ikr I wish this one was just to see the look on grandpas face and grandma Olivia going insane was great

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 way she flew through the doorways 😂😂😂

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

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?

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

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!”

it was never meant to be a campy cheap ending how can you like it better.smh.

ALOT!!

@@johndean4727 It is called preference!!

Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter, wrote "Garden Of Shadows". V.C. Andrews signed a contract to write a prequel to FITA and the next book in the Casteel series one month before her death; she had started to write the next Casteel book (although none of that manuscript was used) but nothing was found to indicate that she had started to write the Dollanganger prequel. She had nothing to do with that book. Making Olivia Corrine's stepmother (unbeknownst to Corrine) and making Corrine and Christopher Sr half-siblings ruin the whole idea behind the story. Cathy and Chris didn't have any biological children together for obvious reasons; how could they and the twins have been born healthy and normal if their parents were siblings? I doubt V. C. Andrews would have gone that route.

Me too

@@Muirmaiden Siblings HAVE produced healthy, normal children. It's not instant genetic anomalies when siblings have children there has to be a several of generations of intermarriages before the genetic quirks set in.

yup i agree with you...olivia is very sick but when you watch the movie flowers in the attic there are times that shes good with the siblings...i like olivia more than corrine...corrine straight up forget about her children when she felt being single and glamorous life...

@@kcbeato3128 She did give them that vase of yellow flowers and the amaryllis for Xmas in the book.

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?

I like seeing the caretaker get his comeuppance

I always felt like John wasn't all bad

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!

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.

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

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.

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, "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

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

The guy in the elevator died from falling down the shaft after struggling with Christopher.

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.

It’s on the arrow Blu-ray in the special features

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.

I wish they would have kept closer to the books

Plus the grandmother with the knife is over the top. I didn’t like it.

I could faintly hear her continuing to protest.

Are you sure you're not mixing that up with The Hand That Rocks The Cradle?

That’s just how it looks

It must've been the studio's Camera while they made the film long time ago

She died in the third book.

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.

Special features on the arrow bluray

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.

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.

no. she became a Bajoran religious leader

It’s on the arrow Blu-ray special edition!

@@thechickapedia1175 I just got my copy signed 2 weeks ago

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!

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.

Hmm, Lifetime had a cheap budget (the attic was laughable), it was so rushed that the emotional impact and feeling of dread was completely missing, and most of the acting was terrible.

The author (V.C. Andrews) approved this ending.

@@Muirmaiden She passed away before it was filmed.

@@danieleyre8913 Most of the film was shot in the spring of 1986. She had script approval and met the cast and crew. Louise Fletcher sought advice from her as to how to portray the grandmother. The studio heavily edited the film and changed the ending, so its release was held back for at least a year. The ending that is now the film was shot in the spring of 1987, by a different director.