“A note: This movie contains several scenes of sexual assault, which, though not graphic, are intense and should be handled with caution.
“In 1979, Virginia Andrews, under her pen name V.C. Andrews, published Flowers in the Attic, a pulpy Gothic bestseller about four siblings locked inside the titular attic by their mother and grandmother, hidden from the world because of the sins of their parents.
“Three sequels followed, and, in 1987, a prequel, Garden of Shadows, told the story of Olivia Foxworth, the evil Grandmother from the first two novels.
“Like all prequels, it’s a bit of a mixed bag, though it does give the series one of its biggest twists.”
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