History YMMV / FlowersInTheAttic

* CompleteMonster: We have Corrinne and Olivia Foxworth. Olivia, Corrinne's mother, is a fanatic who tortures and abuses her family for what she perceives as "sinful." Corrinne, having lost her parents' favor by running away and marrying [[spoiler: (so she thought)]] her own half-uncle, wants to inherit the family fortune, but cannot if she and her husband are established to have any children. Therefore, she and Olivia lock Corrinne's children in the attic where they leave them for over a year [[spoiler: and conspire to poison them slowly in order to do away with the children with none the wiser. The youngest child Cory dies from this.]]
** If we take Garden of Shadows in consideration, Corrinne goes up even more on the monster scale as a pathological liar during this book.

* {{Narm}}: The movie version is ''pure'' narm. ''"Go on. Eat it! EAT THE COOKIE!"''
* RetroactiveRecognition : Creator/KristySwanson (''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') plays Cathy.
* HeyItsThatGuy!: Olivia is played by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher).

** SituationalSexuality.

* {{Narm}}: The movie version is full of it.
** ''"Go on. Eat it! EAT THE COOKIE!"''
** "Full of it"? The whole movie ''is'' pure Narm.
* RetroactiveRecognition : Kristy Swanson (''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') plays Cathy.

** [[spoiler: there's also sheer evolutionary instinct due to Cathy and Chris effectively becoming Cory and Carrie's parents. They see each other as the twin's mother and father... subtext to this is that this leads to them seeing each other as ''mates''.]]

** The other being the argument against the Westermarck effect in general, which not everyone agrees to be accurate on sexual attraction.

** The counterargument to this might also be the (arguable) increase in each other's perceived sexual attractiveness brought on by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_attraction#Social_and_biological_factors stress]] of their situation.

* HeyIt'sThatGirl!: Olivia is played by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher).

** Life would be easier if everything of the human mind and value has a simple "why". But most theories of such are bound to run into enough outliers that might as well ruin it from ever being a rule in the first place. The human mind in some cases can just be flaking weird.

* RetroactiveRecognition : Kristy Swanson (''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') plays Cathy.

** The counterargument to this might also be the (arguable) increase in each other's perceived sexual attractiveness brought on by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_attraction#Social_and_biological_factors stress]] of their situation.

* CompleteMonster: We have Corrinne and Olivia Foxworth. Olivia, Corrinne's mother, is a fanatic who tortures and abuses her family for what she perceives as "sinful." Corrinne, having lost her parents' favor by running away and marrying her own uncle, wants to inherit the family fortune, but cannot if she and her husband had children. She and Olivia lock Corrinne's children in the attic where they leave them for over a year and conspire to slowly poison them in order to do away with the children with none the wiser. The youngest child Cory dies from this.

* CompleteMonster: The mother and grandmother both come off as this. They willingly keep four kids, including two very small children, locked up like animals. These children are denied freedom to play, food, attention, love, sunlight, and are even ignored when sick. Eventually, the grandmother goes so far as to [[spoiler: deliberately lace the food given to the children with arsenic in hopes of killing them.]] The mother would have escaped this label if not for her complete apathy when [[spoiler: Cory dies from the poisoning]].
** [[FlatWhat She would've escaped being labeled a]] {{Complete Monster}} [[FlatWhat even after everything else she had done?]]
** [[spoiler: But it's actually Corrine that's poisoning her children. In the film it shows her doing poisoning the food directly, while in the book she's the one who gave her approval for the grandmother to start doing so. And all of that to get the inheritance...]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: On the first night at the Foxworth Hall, the grandmother demands that the children be quiet. Four-year-old Carrie responds to this by walking calmly up to the Grandmother and screaming at the top of her lungs. What guts!

* RetroactiveRecognition : ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (Kristy Swanson) plays Cathy.

** [[FlatWhat She would've escaped being labeled a Complete Monster, even after everything else she had done?]]

** ''"Eat the cookie, Mother!!"''

** "Full of it"? The whole movie ''is'' pure Narm.

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** [[spoiler: It's actually Corrine that's poisoning her children. In the film it shows her doing poisoning the food directly, while in the book she's the one who gave her approval for the grandmother to start doing so.]]

** ''"Eat the cookie, Mother!!"''

* MoralEventHorizon: For Cathy, her mother crossed this when she [[spoiler: let Cory die.]]