If There Be Thornes (2015)

If There Be Thornes is the latest, until tonight, in the Lifetime Networks continuing adaptations of V. C. Andrews scandalous Dollanganger series, after Flowers in the Attack and Petals on the Wind.  The film starts with Cathy and Chris nicely settled  in California with her two children by two now (largely because of her) dead men. Things will not stay pleasant for long as the much despiseable Corrine Foxworth (played by Heather Graham again) is out of the nut house and set on "getting her family back". Corrine movies into the creepy old house next door to the Sheffield's and on the down low revels herself to her youngest grandson Bart (Mason Cook does a good job of being a creepy little brat here) who ironically is the child of her late husband. Anyway Corrine, but more so creepy butler John Amos (an equally creepy Mackenzie Gray) poisons Bart's mind until he become an angry, judgmental little creep, who again because context is kept from him causes a lot of problems and speeds along the plot. As with the other film in this series Thornes is high trash with a strong vain of camp, and resembles a rather twisted telenovela. In short I shouldn't like these movies but I do. **1/2