Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 4 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The problem is [it] always sounds like it's more fun, or at least more kooky, than it actually plays onscreen.
– Brian Lowry,
Variety,
17 Jan 2014
rotten:
I was particularly delighted when the children figured out that their mother was trying to kill them with powdered rat poison sprinkled on donuts, but this should all be a lot more frightening - or at least more unsettling - than it winds up being.
– Hank Stuever,
Washington Post,
17 Jan 2014
fresh:
It was adapted into a middling creepy film in 1987. Now Lifetime has remade it as a sharper creepy TV movie.
– David Hiltbrand,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
20 Jan 2014
rotten:
The problem is not that it's just terrible, but that it's also no fun. At all.
– Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan 2014
rotten:
V.C. Andrews' popular and creepy 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic gets no favors from the scriptwriters in this latest adaptation.