help please - what is the film title?

[pipeman1]

does anyone know what the film title is when a father locks his daughter up in attic for 17 or so years before hes caught,based on true story,

[caveman_nige]

Is it an Austrian film?

[manxspud]

Thats low nige

[stan7632]

Flowers in the Attic

[Lainie]

flowers - jeeso thats a strange name to call your daughter???

[chroma]

Flowers in the Attic

flowers - jeeso thats a strange name to call your daughter???

Its a film adaptation of the book by Virginia C. Andrews (and like the shining was a comercial success but did not strictly folow the book)

Anyway its about a group of children locked into the attic whilst their mother slowly goes off the deepend, the book is really good, the film less inspired.

This was my first gut instinct but its not just one girl locked up in a little room its 4?.. i think, maybe more.
And theyre only locked up for a while, well enough time for incest, rape and seriously messed up shit to happen.
I read my moms copy back when i was 10 or so and remember that the vast bulk of it is comprised of some seriously twisted shit. Child abuse by a schizo grandmother, trying to con the grandfather into getting into his will, drugged nconcious and hot tar poured on the oldests sisters head (for conning the grandmother into believing the oldest brother had shaved his sisters head for staring at her in the buff)

The specifics remain hazy but i can remember a fair portion of it, enough to know that one reading was enough (much like that Dave Pelzer book that got seriously messed up from the intro to the end, if that book floated your boat then this is in the same kinda vein)
If i remember there where sequels (ive not read those though) The first was passed off initialy as a true (or based on) story. cant vouch for the validity of that though.

[caveman_nige]

Chroma, you say you read that when you were 10 years old ish.... Did you ever refuse to go and stay at your relatives' houses after that... ~~~~, i think i would have needed go to a psych after that for a check up from the neck up and spend the rest of my childhood years on valium..... I was more than happy with the Beano and Commando..

[chroma]

Chroma, you say you read that when you were 10 years old ish.... Did you ever refuse to go and stay at your relatives' houses after that... ~~~~, i think i would have needed go to a psych after that for a check up from the neck up and spend the rest of my childhood years on valium..... I was more than happy with the Beano and Commando..

I read everything i can get my hands on, always have.
I got a stack of books from my grandmother when i was 6 for christmas, Dickens, Poe, Lovecraft and some (dreaded) Shakespear.
I used to sit up for hours listening to her read and recite stories from memory. As i petulantly refused to sleep she figured the only way to fufill my hunger was to teach me how to read as soon as possible. I positively loathed it at first, seemed boring by comparison, especialy considering all my friends where getting taught with easily understandable content like "Spot had a ball, the ball was red" and i was faced with Great Expectations and a Tale of Two Cities.
I grew to love Dickens and i can remember the first book that blew me completely away, "The Maltese Falcon" if it wasnt for old Sam Spade i doubt i would have had the persistance to persevere reading.

Admittedly though ive never gotten my head around Shakespear even to this day i cant stomach the stuff.
I just dont get it, if i wanted strange language to wade through id reread some Miltons Paradise Lost or even struggle through Joyces Ulysses.

I grew to love reading, i still do to this day (so much so i cant sleep without getting through a chapter of something a day) its comforting to know that theres been more written than anyone could possibly read in a lifetime, so your practicaly guaranteed never to be bored.