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Seeds Of Yesterday (2015 telefilm/Lionsgate DVD)

Picture: C+ Sound: B Extras: D Telefilm: C-



Seeds of Yesterday (2015) did not make me want to go and watch the other three movies, Flowers in the Attic (also a theatrical film a few decades before; telefilm reviewed elsewhere on this site), Petals on the Wind, and If There Be Thorns, that came before its release. This is unfortunate because I am told that Seeds of Yesterday, which is based off of the fourth installment of the "Dollanganger Series", is the best of the movies, but the worst of the books. The trouble I had with the movie was right from the start it felt like it was setting up to be some sort of slasher movie that never took off with tons of elements that we have seen many times before.


All the actors' ages seemed off and took me out of it at moments. I was caught off guard when the well dressed man, Bart Foxworth (James Maslow), came down the stairs and called our leading actress "mom". I could buy them being older siblings, but these were the people that raised him. When we first see Bart in the movie he is getting dressed and seems to have particular taste, he then proceeds to check every nook and cranny for dust, this was screaming, to me, this kid might be a psycho, which oddly enough I'll touch on further down.


Chris Sheffield (Jason Lewis) looks as if he is always in complete shock and horror, or constipated. The one thing about this that I enjoyed was when Bart mentioned that Chris and Cathy Sheffield (Rachael Carpani) were siblings, as well as, married, because this explained so much to me. Seeds of Yesterday seems to have some weird theme of incest. Cindy (Sammi Hanratty), who they play off as Bart's adopted sister, suddenly becomes his love interest, which is also as creepy as Bart and his mother Cathy.


The TV movie overall felt like a Lifetime movie, but had some aspects that we all know and love. Like, how it felt like Bart's weird obsession with his mother very much so resembled that of Norman Bates from, that's right, Psycho or maybe even what I've seen from the series Bates Motel. However, the movie makes it appear like we are going to go for a wild ride, but the ride gets shut down and we have to walk the abandoned tracks until the end. The Tone at the end seemed to shift towards a comedy for a second with Bart's story, but overall the movie left me unfulfilled.


As for the disc specs the anamorphically enhanced widescreen (16x9, 1.78:1) was on par and the English lossy 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio was good as well.


There were no extras on the disc unless you include the digital code to watch this movie on the go.


Seeds of Yesterday was not the worst thing ever made, but if this was the best one of the four movies, I do not want to see the other three. However, if you're a fan of the books and/or other movies I would check this one out.



- Jordan Whiteko


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