America’s Incest Obsession: “Flowers in the Attic” Is Back, as Are the Memories

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[SoFloFreeper]

Ahead of the new Lifetime movie adaptation of V.C. Andrews 1979 cult classic, we explore why incest plotlines are so enduring in popular culture

Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic, the movie adaptation of V.C. Andrews’ sordid and soapy tale of family dysfunction, will air tomorrow night, and for millions of American women in their 30s and 40s, it’s sure to be mandatory viewing....

A survey of incest plotlines in popular culture over the past few years alone includes Game of Thrones (sister and brother, Cersei and Jaime); Boardwalk Empire (mother and son, Gillian and Jimmy); Dexter (adopted sister and brother, Deb and Dexter); Bored to Death (half-sister and brother, Jonathan and Rose); Bates Motel (mother and son, Norma and Norman); and Top of the Lake (half-sister and brother, Robin and Johnno, though was only a scare)—not to mention, Brothers and Sisters, Supernatural, Nip/Tuck, Lost, Veronica Mars, Californication, Six Feet Under and the upcoming mini-series The Spoils of Babylon, which stars Toby Maguire and Kristen Wiig as romantically involved adopted siblings.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_habsburg

[windcliff]

I read it. The incest was just one facet in the whole novel. Mainly it’s about a insane mother who would do any to board up her children in a attic.

[tophat9000]

Im waiting for the gay polygamist incest remake of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” as “Seven Brothers Do Each Other”

[tophat9000]

Im not sure him sticking the finger up his own a— constitutes incest

[IYAS9YAS]

What’s interesting is the elitist liberals then make fun of some states’ residents by stating their family trees don’t have any branches. Or that there are thousands of people and three last names. They push it and mock it at the same time.

[Mr. K]

Flowers in the attic is the first set of books I ALMOST read until I wanted to tear my hair out

The first book was kinda good- but the author kept going and going into such a ridiculous story line I finally just tossed the last one I tried to read into the garbage halfway through.

I do know people who read all of them and thought it was great literature.

[Carriage Hill]

Found it!

LOL; just kidding.

[MeshugeMikey]

Ill keep my eyes peeled for that one....

[Tax-chick]

I’m not sure you’re exactly my generation ...

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’m from the Jurassic...

[Tax-chick]

‘Cause that happens all the time!

[Tax-chick]

My sons’ favorite era!

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

[SuziQ]

Not surprising fare for Estrogen TV.

[P.O.E.]

Similarly, I remember seeing Vincent Price’s “Tomb of Ligeia” as a pre-teen kid and shrugging off the ending as “?”

When I re-watched it years later, and realized the necrophilia theme implied, it totally freaked me out.

[Teacher317]

[Teacher317]

She also kissed him for good luck here...

That's 3 smooches I count for Luke and Leia.

[Nepeta]

I had no idea Flowers in the Attic existed until a few years ago. It's really about child abuse; incest is involved, but the circumstances are far from ordinary and it is not presented as normal or positive.

Some of Anne Rice's books so disgusted me that I no longer read anything she writes, but Flowers did not strike me that way.