Virginia (VC) Andrews' Southern Gothic novels are salacious melodrama laced with horror - screamingly bonkers to some, darkly compelling to others. The novels, which explore the generational secrets and scandals of the stinking rich Foxworth family in Virginia, US, have sold in their millions. This is the second adaptation to hit our screens after a 1987 film starring Louise Fletcher and Kristy Swanson.

The first book, Flowers In The Attic, introduces the four Dollanganger children, who are hidden away in a sprawling mansion when their widowed mother Corrine returns to the ice-cold family home she had originally fled. The children spend years in the attic, with the eldest two, Cathy and Chris (Kiernan Shipka and Mason Dye), becoming incestuously close, while the younger twins all but wither away in the darkness.

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