The sibling love saga continues...

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]If you've seen Flowers in the Attic, you know what a wild ride that movie is in the worst way possible. And yet, somehow, the sequel is even bumpier.

[00:00:09]It's so much more chaotic and all over the place. And by the end of this video, you're probably going to have a neck from the constant whiplash of this plot.

[00:00:17]I know it's so easy to say like, "Wow, this movie is crazy." This movie actually is crazy from start to finish.

[00:00:23]It has so many serious and dramatic plot twists that it's actually hilarious. And I know it's been forever since I covered the first one. It was literally last I think it was last September. I just never planned on doing the second movie or even watching the second movie cuz you know the first one was that was enough. That was a wild ride enough. But the second I finally watched this movie, I'm like I need to bring it to you. I need you I need you all to hear this because somehow all the debauchery and that our sibling angle from the first movie got infinitely worse in the second. How is that possible? You may be asking. You're about to see. And for the sake of your understanding here, I highly encourage you go back and watch my first video on the first movie or just watch the first movie, Flowers in the Attic yourselves, if you want to endure that, of course. But I'll give you a quick cliffnotes version of the first movie, All the Important Necessary Plot Points, before we dive head first into the roller coaster of the second movie. Long story short, in the first movie, Flowers in the Attic, set in 1957, it revolves around the Dolinger family, consisting of parents, Karen and Christopher, and their four children, Christopher, I guess, Christopher Jr., Kathy, Carrie, and Corey all seas, and they're one big, happy, affluent family until the dad Christopher dies in a car accident, leaving the family heartbroken and financially destitute. So, in a bid to escape their new crippling debt and financial strain, the mother, Karen, moves herself and her four children over into the home of her previously aranged parents into their manor house called Foxworth Hall. But once the destitute family arrives to Foxworth Hall, they learn that they're to remain strictly hidden in the attic, far out of the realm of their grandfather's awareness because the grandfather doesn't even know he has grandchildren. And Karen and her nasty mother need to keep it that way for reasons you learn about shortly. Karen's mother, Olivia, holds a deep loathing for all Karen's children and Karen herself that the kids do not understand yet. As much as having to stay hidden in an attic room sucks, Karen assures her four children that they'll only have to remain up in the attic for a couple weeks at most, just long enough for her to win back her father's love and to worm herself back into his will before her father dies. And then they'll all be wealthy and happy and free again. But a couple weeks quickly turns into a couple months. Karen's visits to her pretty much prisoner children becoming less and less frequent as she enjoys her new life of wealth, eligible bachelors, and overall childlessness. And while Karen is gallivanting about in her new luxurious life and freedom, her children are still just locked up in the attic together. Their feelings of cabin fever growing stronger by the day, as well as some other feelings. Because Chris and Kathy are puberty age and are stuck in close confinement with each other, they begin to start exploring those feelings and in time each other's bodies as well.

[00:03:01]Ew. Several months slowly turn into two years. Two years of confinement up in the attic. And by the two-year mark, Karin has just stopped visiting them altogether. Because while she was on the outside, you know, trying to get back in her father's good graces to get back in the will before he died, she ended up marrying a rich, affluent man and began forging a whole new glamorous, childless life for herself while her kids are still just up there rotting in the attic. Except by this point, there are three children instead of four. Because sometime earlier, Karen had her evil mother, who has despised the children from the get-go and views them as abominations, poison her own children with rat poisoninfested donuts, which actually killed the youngest brother, Corey. Rest in peace, Corey. And after two years of enduring this hell, Chris and Kathy learned that their grandfather actually died months, several months prior, so they could have been freed long before now. It's just that their mother had moved on and she likes her new life a lot better without the kids.

[00:03:56]Being well past the point of being able to tolerate this life of captivity, neglect, and incestuous desires, and especially their wickedly evil grandma, Chris, Kathy, and their youngest sister, Carrie, who was annoying as hell, eventually pull off an escape, trekking their way to the nearest train station and then boarding it to head to Florida, leaving their nasty mother and horrific grandmother and even more horrific attic in the dust in the past. And the reason that the grandmother inherently off the bat hates her grandkids and views them as abominations and miscreations in the eyes of God is because Karen and Christopher, the husband and wife, are actually niece and uncle. So the kids are siblings, but also first cousins, right? So all four kids are a little inbred. And the grandma was sure from the start that the four kids would follow in their mother and father's incestuous footsteps. And it was kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy given that they shoved all the kids together in a confined space for 2 years. Anyway, the kids getting on a train to Florida is where the first movie Flowers in the Attic ends. And there are so many more details thrown throughout that movie.

[00:04:58]So, you might want to watch my video on the first movie, Flowers in the Attic, first, but I gave you all the important details here.

[00:05:07]Pedals on the Wind, the glamorous, glorious sequel, begins 10 years after where the first one left off, opening at a funeral of all places. A funeral for a man called Dr. Sheffield, who took the three forsaken abandoned children in as his own and adopted them 10 years prior and gave them a very luxurious life thereafter and the best schooling and training and opportunities because these three kids deserve to catch a break. But now, their beloved Dr. Sheffield/dad is dead. So, right back on to the bad luck train they go. And I'm going to say it up front, Chris ain't too bad looking.

[00:05:38]He's pretty easy on the eyes. I know you're thinking it, so I'm just putting it out there. Okay, perve. Anywh who, they're now all grieving the death of their beloved father figure and are now parentless again. But Dr. Sheffield left them quite a bit of wealth, plus his beautiful house. So, the situation definitely could be worse, right? And plus, if not anything else, they have each other. Preemptively side eyeing Chris and Kathy here. Speaking of wealth, Karen still living the lush life with a rich dude Bart Winslow that she married in the first movie. Bart still not knowing she has any children out there in the world because lying comes very easily to Karen, the selfish cow who completely abandoned her children for the last decade. Who would have thought someone like that is also a liar. Crazy. Anywh who, before Karin heads off to a grandiose charity dinner, rich people things, she gets a phone call from guess who? Kathy, who's actually had her mother's phone number on hand for multiple years and has finally decided to call her now after Dr. Sheffield's death. And the second that Kathy says who she is to Karen, Karen immediately hangs up. Mother of the century right here. Because she's gotten away with being completely child-free for the last decade, and she does not want that lie and facade coming to light now. Kathy is not surprised at all that she hung up on her. And neither is Chris. They know exactly who their mother is, but Karen has just been on Cathy's mind recently, a lot. Kathy is now a full-fledged professional ballerina, having started ballet 10 years prior before her father died, back when they could afford it before they were destitute and, you know, ended up in the attic. And one day, while she's in class, the son of her ballet instructor, pops in for a quick visit from New York, a dude named Julian, who's also a ballerina, or ballerino, who dances for a very prestigious ballet company. And Kathy immediately catches his eye. They bond over her bloodied, battered toes, plus some of his point shoe life hacks. Kathy quickly becoming enamored right back. Love is in the air.

[00:07:33]And finally with someone other than her own brother. Phew. Speaking of said brother, Chris is in his thirdyear residency to become a doctor and is at the top of his class and above all his peers academically and looks wise as well, not going to lie. So, it seems that he's got a very promising career ahead of him. At the hospital Chris works at, Chris meets the head doctor's daughter, a woman named Sarah. And she immediately has goooo eyes for Chris.

[00:07:56]Fair. But Chris only has eyes for one girl. And we know who that is, right?

[00:08:02]Yeah. And their little sister Carrie, she attends a private girl school. And although it's a very highly esteemed, probably expensive place, it's not all too fun of an experience for her because unfortunately she's subject to a whole host of bullying from a couple girls there. A prestigious private school is still a flex though, right? Bullying aside, of course. So it seems that Dr. Sheffield really set them up for some auspicious successful careers and futures. He provided for their future good and well. Our fondest throwback is the beloved Grandma Olivia, who is now completely bedridden after a stroke, requiring roundthe-clock care. And even in her sick, frail state, Olivia still despises her daughter Karen with her whole soul, trying to tell the nurse about Karen's past poisoning antics regarding her own children. But the nurse just waves it off as stroke related hallucinations.

[00:08:49]Right. Karen knows the damn truth here.

[00:08:51]Karen isn't too fond of her mother either, though, wanting to shove her in a nursing home sooner than later so she can inherit Foxworth Hall all for herself. In true Karen style, Kathy and Julian are growing closer by the day.

[00:09:03]And when he takes her out for drinks late one night, he asks Kathy to come back with him to New York to his prestigious highbrow dance company, telling her that he can easily get a spot in his group. No audition required cuz he tells her that she already passed in his eyes. And Kathy actually agrees.

[00:09:19]Julian ends up taking her home late into the night. And they both share a quick smooch at her doorstep before she heads inside. And Chris ain't too happy that she was out so late, more so because she was out late with another guy. Let's be honest here, Chris. Off the bat, he's sulky and jealous about it, even having spied on them when they were kissing outside. Because while Kathy has been trying to move on and start a life without Chris and away from Chris, Chris can't seem to do the same. He's still so deeply stuck on what transpired in the attic years ago and what's probably happened many times since. Let's be real. Although, it turns out Kathy's not all too good at keeping her distance from him either. You know, siblings, by the way. Siblings. And it feels so wrong to watch this to witness this. And I know the actors are not siblings, but it still feels weird, especially since that little kiss of theirs morphs into something much more until they commit the unspeakable. So, not much has changed since the addict days. I guess there's definitely a long-standing trauma bond between them. One that absolutely needs to be curbed ASAP.

[00:10:21]After their abominable act, I sound like the grandma now. She breaks the news that she's going to New York with Julian because they obviously need some serious space apart. Kathy wanting Chris to move on and find a girl to start a life with, preferably one he's not related to. That would be a good start. In the same emotional conversation, we learn that in the past, Chris actually got Kathy pregnant. But the baby ended up miscarrying. Pardon? And Kathy tells them that can never happen again. She wants them both to be normal people and to not follow in the footsteps of their parents who were also related. This family line is just cursed. And you know, it's probably best that the baby didn't come to full term because Chris and Cathy's parents are uncle and niece and Chris and Kathy are brother and sister. So, their baby probably would have turned out like the from Basket Case or something. And that's the last kind of baby you want to have. Chris is obviously opposed to Kathy leaving to some strange far-off city with some stranger guy telling her, "You're the only person I will ever truly love," which of course is all sorts of twisted.

[00:11:23]And worse yet, their younger sister Carrie is currently in the hallway eavesdropping overhearing this abomination of a conversation. I really hope she didn't witness the abomination that transpired before it, but it seems that Carrie's known, or at least has had her suspicions about them for quite some time, sooner than later. Chris's worst nightmare comes true when Kathy does indeed head off to New York with Julian.

[00:11:44]Julian now being his sworn enemy, and he watches sadly as his true love drives away, taking half of his incestuous heart with her. It turns out that Julian, despite his highly esteemed position at his highly renowned dance company, lives in a pretty much run-down dump of an apartment. Although, it's in New York, so it's probably still like $10,000 a month for rent. By this point, Cathy's used to living in Dr. Sheffield's luxury and grandeur and wealth. So, it's quite a contrast for her. While Julian is making Cathy feel right at home, Chris is at the hospital being awkward and go with Sarah, who clearly has a major crush on him. but to try and honor Cathy's desire for them to forge their own separate lives, he works up the gumption to actually ask her on a date, even as awkward and low-key begrudging as it seems. And while Kathy and Chris are both off working on love lives that don't involve siblings, Carrie's off at her private school, still being bullied, currently getting mocked for carrying a doll around with her. And I mean, you're kind of making yourself an easy target there, Carrie, you know, by carrying a doll around with you. Not that Carrie deserves the bullying, of course. But the bullying is not solely for the doll. It's also because they view Carrie as a freak and stunted for her age. What a stupid nitpick that is. And on top of the bullying, Carrie's also struggling with the fact that Chris has never had the same amount of love for her that he's always had for Kathy. Trust me, Carrie, you don't want that type of love.

[00:13:08]But Chris assures her that he loves both his sisters the same. I hope not. But even he doesn't believe his own words.

[00:13:15]And neither do we. Over in New York, Cathy's beginning to witness a cracking in Julian's previously charming exterior, especially when he gets unjustifiably jealous of her stretching with another ballerino and purposefully drops her mid practice. So, by this point, she's really realizing that all that charm was just a coaxing facade.

[00:13:33]Just enough of one to convince her to come to New York with him. Julian seems really condescending, controlling, possessive, and very short-tempered. And now she's come all the way out to New York to dance and live with him. So now she's kind of stuck. And even after he injures her from that drop, he puts all the blame on her and topples into a full-blown tantrum about how she's nobody without him. Real stand-up guy.

[00:13:56]On the subject of standup guys, our main man Chris over here has finally taken Sarah out on a date. And Sarah seems like a super sweet, genuine person. So don't you hurt her, Chris. Get Kathy out of your mind. But the date ends up going swell. So swell that they even share a little smooch. Chris even asking her out on a second date. Though things aren't going too well for Kathy and Julian.

[00:14:18]More and more ugly shades of Julian's true colors are coming to the surface, revealing themselves by the day. Julian continuing to treat Kathy like crap and continuing to condition her into believing that she owes him everything and needs to obey his every command. And bestie believed that Julian is not all too happy when Kathy tells him that she's temporarily heading back home to attend Chris's medical graduation ceremony. He even gets so angry about it that he slams your head into a wall like the volatile asshole he is. You belong to me, Kathy, whether you know it or not. Because I forgot to mention that he's also British. And I'll kill any man that comes between us, Kathy. Even your brother. H. And he even threatens Kathy herself. He's a full-fledged British psychopath. Regardless of Julian's unhinged outbursts and threats, Kathy shows up to Chris's graduation. Chris is immediately overjoyed to see her. And despite Kathy being the one between them to insist that they move on from each other, she looks a little off-put, even disgruntled, to meet Chris's new girlfriend, Sarah. But Chris is a little more gruntled when he notices the bruise on Cathy's eye. But she assures him that it's just from a clumsy fall during dance rehearsal. But I don't think Chris fully believes her. When Kathy returns to New York, Julian's all apologetic and remorseful for now, telling her he'd do absolutely anything to make it up to her. Currently, at their dance company, they're doing a rendition of Romeo and Juliet for an upcoming dance performance where, of course, Julian is Romeo, but Kathy didn't get the spot for Juliet.

[00:15:48]So, to demonstrate how truly deeply sorry he is, Julian plans on opening up that lead position of Juliet for Kathy, by any means necessary. Those means being breaking a glass bottle and sneaking the broken shards into the female lead's point shoes. And the movie is not really clear on whether Kathy asked him to do that or not. But but the lead dancer has been really mean and condescending to Kathy from the get-go.

[00:16:12]So I can't feel too sorry for her. But since the position is now open and Kathy seems to be the understudy, Kathy officially gets the role of Juliet. She gets to dance with her psychopathic sweetheart Romeo. What an honor. Back in luxury land, Karen has been conceptualizing, completely gutting and renovating Foxworth Hall, despite how beautiful it still is on the inside.

[00:16:33]Okay. And regardless of whether or not they can pry her mother from it, Karen even hires a renovator and contractor without telling her husband about it, despite hubby Winslow being the one who's going to be footing that massive bill, because Karen is just so entitled.

[00:16:47]Karin's entitlement and snobbery aside, while Kathy and Julian are rehearsing for their big performance, their big night as Romeo and Juliet, Carrie appears out of nowhere for a spur-of-the- moment visit, asking if she can stay with them in New York since, you know, she's kind of getting sick of being bullied. And also, Chris is busy with Sarah now, so she's lonely.

[00:17:06]Surprisingly, or maybe not, Julian agrees outright, telling Kathy that if it makes her happy, then it's fine by him, as if he's some sweet, caring boyfriend instead of an abusive, possessive asshole. And he is an asshole. But now Carrie's on board the New York train. The night of their big ballet performance rolls around, and of course, Chris is there with bells on. He wouldn't miss Cathy's debut performance for the world. Although the whimsy of Cathy's beautiful opening solo is immediately snatched by the fact that Chris finds Julian feeling up his younger sister Carrie in the dressing room. What? And Chris is instantly furious. Car's in denial about what happened and Kathy is just confused and hurt, but not as hurt as Julian's face is about to be. After Chris and Julian get into a full-fledged brawl, Julian storms out, getting in his car to race away before Cathy gets in and joins him, demanding to know what the hell was just going on. And dodging the subject entirely, Julian starts accusing Kathy of being in love with her brother, which to be fair, he's not all too wrong about. In that same moment, Kathy lets it slip that she's actually pregnant with Julian's child. That came out of left field, telling him that right before they're hit by a damn semi.

[00:18:17]What? This movie is so random and dramatic. Even the way Julian's body has landed in the road oozes drama. What a plot twist that came out of absolutely nowhere. Anywh who, the movie then cuts to 10 months later. Kathy, now a ballet teacher for young girls and a single mom because apparently Julian died in that accident. And you know, a part of me thinks that baby could be Chris's. I would not be surprised. You never know.

[00:18:43]Chris and Sarah are still dating and Carrie has finally found herself a man's from singing in the church choir. And it turns out he's a minister. And even though he and Carrie have only been dating a few months, he ends up proposing to her. Carrie telling him she's going to have to think about it, which is fair. She of course goes to her older sister Kathy for some advice, but in this little chat of theirs, Carrie admits that Julian's advances on her that one fateful night back in the dressing room were actually welcomed on her part and went both ways. So Carrie cheated with her sister's deceased boyfriend and baby daddy before he was deceased. Of course, let the record show. This movie's already got loads of incest. We don't need that, too. Anywh who, Kathy just kind of forgives her on the spot, advising her to marry this minister Alex guy and forget the past, especially the part of their past involving their heinous, horrible mother and that heinous, horrific addict. But Carrie is still heavily burdened by those parts of their past life.

[00:19:37]Consequently, traveling all the way out to see her mother, Karen, face to face, catching her completely offguard at her big fancy lunchon, Carrie tells Karen who she is, having come all the way out here to personally hand her an invitation to her wedding since all her previous letters to Karen were mysteriously returned. H, what a mystery. Wonder how that happened. But the cold and callous Karen dismisses her outright, telling her she must be mistaken. she doesn't have a daughter.

[00:20:03]Wholeheartedly rejecting Car's attempts at any form of reconciliation or second chance. The next morning, when Kathy wakes up, their housekeeper informs her that Carrie woke up really early to do some baking, having made donuts.

[00:20:16]Donuts.

[00:20:18]And that rings an alarm bell on Cathy's head that wakes up every ugly resident of her mental memory lane, especially when she sees a canister of rat poison sitting nearby. Uh-oh, the situation is looking a tad too familiar. Kathy gets extra concerned after finding the clumping of Carrie's unrequited and coldly returned letters to Karen in the trash. Her and Chris racing upstairs to find Carrie in her bed dead as a door nail with a bitten donut by her bedside.

[00:20:46]But would only one bite really be enough? I I really don't think so. But what do I know? So Carrie took a page from her own mother's book and poisoned herself via a laced donut. How poetic and dramatic. Of course, the whole movie is too unintentionally funny and unserious for me to take this scene seriously. You know, it's just one dramatic thing after the other, and it's really funny. If you watch this movie for yourself, you'll see what I mean.

[00:21:11]But now Kathy's extra infuriated at her mother's neglect and lack of heart and caring and decency for her own children.

[00:21:17]Kathy saying that their mother, Karen, is the sole reason that two of their siblings are now dead. So Kathy wants revenge, for Karen to hurt as badly as she's hurt them. It's time for Karen to pay the piper. But Chris wants no part in whatever revenge plot that Kathy is conceiving. Chris was always a mama's boy, but I think it's mostly because he doesn't want to see Kathy getting hurt, too. Regardless, Kathy gets to setting up a meeting with Bart Winslow, who seems to be some sort of lawyer. Bart, not having any idea who Kathy is, because, you know, he doesn't even know that Karin has children. For the sake of Cathy's revenge scheme, she ends up flirting and eventually seducing Bart, beginning the first phase of the plan that Chris wanted no involvement in.

[00:21:56]Soon after, Kathy gets a surprise visit from Sarah, where she pleads with Kathy to patch up whatever dissonance is going on between her and her brother. Sarah telling Kathy that her and Chris are now planning on getting married and that she was really hoping Kathy would be her maid of honor, cuz yes, Chris finally proposed after a little pressure and nudging from Sarah's father, of course, who's also Chris's boss. So, no pressure, Chris. And I think Chris put off proposing to Sarah for so long because he still held out a little hope that he and Kathy would end up together.

[00:22:26]Brother and sister, ladies and gents.

[00:22:29]Brother and sister. But Kathy currently has her romantic focus set on Bart Winslow, but solely for the sake of interjecting herself into his marriage to her evil mother. And it's working.

[00:22:40]Bart is falling head over heels for her.

[00:22:42]But uh-oh, Kathy might have committed herself a little too much to this plot of hers. and might be getting a little more than revenge out of this situation.

[00:22:50]Baby on board. She ends up setting her and Chris's differences aside and comes back home for Chris's upcoming wedding.

[00:22:57]And the way that Chris looks at her when she enters the room after being apart for so long, let's just say he's never looked at Sarah like that, his bride to be. Even though Sarah's really sweet and wholeheartedly adores Chris, and his soon-to-be father-in-law is kind, accepting, and generous, and not to mention the head doctor at the hospital he works at, Chris just can't get past Kathy. That trauma bond has tethered deep. It's the night before Chris's big day, and he's up late drinking away his sorrows for what should be the most exciting day of his life. Kathy finds him in such a state, reassuring him that he's made the right choice here, and that Sarah adores him and will make a great wife and mother. And Chris agrees with all that, but he says, "There's one problem. She isn't you."

[00:23:41]And then he leans in and starts kissing her again, his sister, which quickly unfolds into a full-on make out with his sister on the night of his wedding.

[00:23:52]Those years in the attic really did a number on them. Psychological torment will do that. But right in that same moment, Sarah rushes into the room to sneak a quick visit with her husband to be catching Chris and Kathy smack dab in the middle of their smooch sesh. Whoops.

[00:24:06]Not a good look, Chris. Sarah is immediately shocked and heartbroken and probably disgusted. And needless to say, the consequences are pretty enormous and very swift. The wedding is obviously immediately cancelled, and Sarah is out of there, out of that relationship.

[00:24:22]Chris is fired from his coveted position at the hospital and word seems to have gotten around pretty fast. So, they're pretty much ruined and their reputations are in the pits of Tartarus and now they're probably seen as the town freaks. But, they love each other. And Chris tells her that they can just start over somewhere else, somewhere fresh.

[00:24:40]But Kathy's not quite finished working the Bart Winslow angle and doesn't want to leave yet, revealing to Chris that she's actually pregnant with Bart Winslow's child. And Chris's reaction lies somewhere between disappointment and hurt. But she assures Chris that she does not love Bart whatsoever. Her heart is only for Chris. But she tells him that she needs to finish what she started here. So now Chris agrees to join her to accompany her in the conclusion of her revenge plot against Karen. So Kathy heads back to Foxworth Hall for the first time in over a decade. And although it's been almost entirely renovated, it still holds all those haunting memories. As Kathy is looking around and enduring a painful stroll down memory lane, she discovers that the entire entrance to the attic has been completely walled off, entirely built over, as if Karen intended for its entire sorted history to just disappear in the same fashion, pretending that those horrible events never transpired.

[00:25:33]In that same moment, Kathy hears the dreaded voice of her grandma calling out for her nurse. So Kathy heads over into her bedroom to face her horrific grandma again after so long. And her grandma recognizes her straight away, still entirely unrepentant and not sorry for how she treated them, telling her that she was just doing God's work somehow.

[00:25:53]But Kathy holds nothing back at this point, telling her that she's an absolute monster and that God had absolutely nothing to do with her unjustifiable cruelty towards them and especially her hatred for her own grandkids, regardless of whether they're inbred or not. But Grandma Olivia is always the victim. She was just doing what she was forced to do for their abomination of a family. Bringing up Chris and Cathy's incestuous relationship as ammunition and to prove her point that they're so vile and evil.

[00:26:19]You'll always be the devil's spawn.

[00:26:22]Telling Cathy that she can escape Foxworth Hall, but she'll never be able to escape this family. Apparently not.

[00:26:29]After that emotionally volatile encounter, Kathy heads home to prepare herself for Karen's party in the newly renovated Foxworth Hall. Chris planning on attending it with her for the final showdown. Karen tells her mother that she has to attend said party given it will be her last chance to party since Karen has gotten her mother into a nursing home. So soon the entire estate will be hers. And since Karen is apparently feeling confrontational, she thereafter goes in to tell Bart that she knows he's seeing someone. She tells him that she doesn't want to know anything about it and just demands for him to end it immediately. If only she knew who that interloper really was. As Bart and Karen are making the official party toast, that mysterious interloper makes her presence known. Appearing at the top of the stairs to make a toast of her own for everyone present. Karen and Bart are both shocked to see her, but both for very different reasons. Kathy begins divulging the tragic tale of her and her siblings and what transpired in the attic of this very house that they were locked up in there and kept hidden away by Karen, who's actually her mother. She reveals to everyone, Bart included, that Karen actually does have children. At least at one point she had four of them responsible for poisoning one directly and the other indirectly. Bart is absolutely stunned to learn that not only does Karen actually have children, but that his secret lover is apparently Karine's daughter. And all Karin can do is immediately leap to the victim act, blurting all types of excuses and explanations until the grandmother pipes in with, "You were trying to kill them, Karen." And the audience gasps. But this bombshell is quickly followed up by another. Kathy announcing that she's pregnant with Bart's baby. What a roller coaster. What a soap opera. My gosh. So now the party has come to a swift end at breakneck speed. Bart confronting Karan for all her lies and deceit. thereafter admonishing Cathy for the same extent of her deception, that she was just playing him to get revenge on Karen. But Kathy teily claims that she genuinely cares for him. Meanwhile, the infuriated and exposed Karen heads upstairs to yell at her mother and to place all the blame regarding the addict debacle on her. She was the one who made her hide them. Yet, Karen entirely abandoned and erased them of her own valition, solely of her own selfishness. In that same moment, Olivia actually tells Karen she has a little bit of a surprise present for her in the trunk at the end of the bed. And the contents therein are definitely surprising. In the trunk, beneath toys and other child-aged possessions from the attic, is the mummified body of her son Corey, whom Karen had Olivia poisoned that decade ago. And the first thing Karen says when she sees him is, "Oh, my poor baby." As if she wasn't the one who killed him. Hello. She is the biggest narcissist I've ever come across. Well, maybe second biggest, but still. Chris enters the room right then.

[00:29:16]Karen rushing over to him in one last attempt to win him over, telling him that they can just leave all this mess behind and run away and start a family together like they always dreamed. Karen then going in for a literal kiss with her son.

[00:29:31]But Chris immediately pushes her away and shoves her back. What are you doing?

[00:29:35]The grandma laughing in the background at all the dysfunction playing out in the open before her eyes. She's been right about that family from the start.

[00:29:43]Abominations. To be honest, there was a little bit of a weird dynamic between Chris and Karin in the first movie, but Chris obviously is not feeling it now.

[00:29:51]And if her trying to kiss Chris weren't spooky enough, Chris then gets a glimpse of what lies in the trunk. The 10-year-old body of his six-year-old brother, Corey. So, not only did she poison and kill his brother, but she also couldn't have been bothered to bury him. She just shoved the poor lad into a trunk and forgot about him. Chris should really be popping her one in the face here. She's Cory's damn murderer. While Chris is distracted by the trunk's horrendous contents, Karen's desperate focus abscon to a lit candalabra. One she picks up to set the curtains on fire with. And then with the unfeilling, emotionless words, "Goodbye, mother."

[00:30:26]Karen then sets Olivia's bed ablaze.

[00:30:29]That's cold. Or more so, piping hot.

[00:30:31]Chris's first response is to pick up Karen and carry her out of the room, leaving the grandma to cook in that same hellfire that she always said her ungodly grandkids would end up in. But Karen can walk and the grandma can't. So why did Chris take Karen? Maybe he just wants the grandma to die, which I guess is kind of fair. Chris rushes downstairs to alert Cathy of the fire. Bart then racing upstairs to try and save Olivia, the grandma, but once everyone else hurries outside, the house explodes into flame, unfortunately, taking Bart with it. Every baby daddy that Kathy gets dies swiftly thereafter. She's kind of cursed. After that horrific incident, which puts another two deaths on Karen's hands, the movie then jumps to six years later, where Chris and Kathy are now living together under the guise of being husband and wife, a happy, wholesome suburban family of four. Little do their heedless neighbors know that Kathy and Chris are actually brother and sister, and that those kids don't actually belong to Chris, probably hence why they're not bile mutants. So Chris and Kathy probably had to move far away to keep their old life and reputation in the past. As for Karen, she apparently ended up with a few mental fractures, some type of mental breakdown, and has been institutionalized, probably initially for starting the fire. And she spends all her time manically ranting to herself about her kids and the attic and her mother, that whole miserable tragedy that she incited. And then it cuts to black.

[00:31:55]Thus, it ends. The incest fest has been brought to a close and you know as weird as it is and as you know gross as it is for Kathy and Chris to be together. It all goes back to that trauma bond and I mostly just feel bad for them. They tried to separate from each other and create their own different paths of life but in the end they just couldn't do it.

[00:32:15]So now they're just masquerading as husband and wife together.

[00:32:19]Yeah, that's not gross. Of course not.

[00:32:22]The ending of the sequel is as good of an ending as really you could get in this type of situation with this type of plot and story. I'm glad Karine got some sort of justice. Like, you know, ending up in the institution and maybe losing all her money. Well, I guess not cuz she's she was married to Bart. So, when she gets out of the institution, she'll still be rich, but who knows when she'll get out. So, there's some justice there a little bit. And we all know how the grandma got her justice in the end.

[00:32:47]A little bit of a justice inferno. But do you see what I mean about the constant whiplashing plot twist every direction? After Julian got hit and killed by that semi, plot twists started hurling in from every direction possible. What a damn movie. What a And somehow it's more depraved than the first movie. And I did not think that was possible, but And oh man, would you believe that there's a third and I believe a fourth.

[00:33:13]What more can happen? What more can go horrifically wrong? Here's the queen.

[00:33:19]The queen has decided to join us here at the very end.

[00:33:23]Oh, we are mother and daughter killing. No kissing on the lips. This isn't Flowers in the attic part five. Oh, damn.

[00:33:30]Anyway, this movie is a dramatic all over the place mess, but it it also is very entertaining. And whoever wrote it was constantly going for how can we make a bad situation worse and then how can we make that bad situation worseer?

[00:33:43]I know even more worse. Till's calling me out my grammar.

[00:33:48]So, yes, I finally got to this movie and it was worth watching every second. It actually is pretty entertaining and all over the place and hilariously hilariously dramatic. So, you know what?

[00:33:59]Go watch it for yourselves if you want.

[00:34:01]I'm boring Tilly to death, so I'm probably boring you guys, too. Got my lipstick on her face. So, I'll cut it here. I'll let you guys get on with your beautiful days, and I'll quit my yapping right here.

[00:34:12]I'm sorry it took so long to get to this movie. I That is on me.