first let talk about the movie and it many problem and to be succinct it suck . the screenplay be the first major flaw in this movie while it do not flesh out the character into believable human being . not even the character of cathy and she the narrator . the close to a multidimensional character in the movie be the old brother chris . everyone else seem to be just mannequin stand around wait for the next plot twist to fall on them . the act for the most part be stiff from just about everyone with the exception of louise fletcher and she be the only one who seem to bother to act and she wasn not that good either . her performance pal in comparison to another derange religious fanatic and piper laurie margaret white and carrie mother . how about just plain quietly derange . judith anderson mrs. danvers from the hitchcock version of rebecca come to mind . everyone else seem to be just mouth the word without understand the circumstance around them . the movie move at a snail pace and which be an insult to snail and they move faster than this flick . and there doesn not seem to be any imagination to the direction in term of camera angle and movement . the set decoration and design be just plain awful and do they have to use floodlight in every scene . that have get to be the bright attic i have ever see . by the way when be the story set . i saw the old boy wear nike and jean in one scene and yet when they finally leave the house they be wear clothes that have be outdated 50 year earlier than 1987 when the film be make . finally and back to the story line and the final confrontation with the mother be not the least bit believable . no self respect daytime soap opera would allow such a contrived and awkward confrontation to occur . i have never read the v. c. andrew novel and and from other people comment in amazon . com and thank god . they be favorable comment but the novel seem to be fill with deceit and betrayal and revenge and and incest . be everybody sure that v. c. andrew wasn not a pseudonym use by jackie collins . maybe some executive from lifetime or oxygen would turn the whole book series into a maxi miniseries . if they do please do not blame me for impart that lack of wisdom to them .