Naughty siblings!

Agreed!

I didn't think about the offscreen chemistry between the two until you mentioned it. Early in the film they seemed too close for comfort, and about midway through during the incest scene I thought that the earlier "too close for bro-sis relationship" scenes were build-up to help explain why Patricia would disrobe for her brother??

I mean, Patricia posed fully nude for her brother because he asked her to do it, "just for a second"??? If you ask me, that needed a little explanation.......so I think maybe the director asked the two actors to be touchy feely in the earlier scenes to help explain that they were a "close" family to begin with.
That maybe led to some offscreen hanky panky, and it showed through in the performances....

I completely agree. In the first scence between those two where they "got to know the house" I actually turned to my boyfriend and asked, "Why are they flirting with each other?".

Ok, they were maybe supposed to be a close family, possibly - one could theorise - because the father was a domineering b**tard (not that that was particularly well executed either), but it did not come across, it came across that they were flirting with each other. The banter could have been more insulting to each other... gah, I don't have any siblings, but generally at that age, my friends were never really nice to their brothers or sisters, despite how close the family was in general.

If you ask me, Trish was completely up for it. Maybe the house told her it was a good idea, but we never saw any evidence of that (and I don't think that is actually the case). I had no sympathy for anyone in this story. I was cheering on the house.


~Sarah~
"When you're convinced of your own absolute superiority, you don't need help from mere mortals." ~ Martyn Taylor, The Hole

Oh yes, I definitely saw the incest scene coming. All Tricia had to do was "fall" on Sonny then grab his arm and seductively purr, "Come on, let's get to know the house" and I was like, here we go. I so agree with you: Total V.C. Andrews territory (Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, etc., etc)!! And hey, Tricia first makes her pent-up desire known in an ... attic of sorts.

The Sonny/Tricia relationship SLIGHTLY reminded me of that Brady Bunch episode where Greg and Marcia are fighting over who gets the attic for their new bedroom. There's definitely chemisty in that scene (where Greg and Marcia are sitting on the bed, when they're arguing, etc.). Years later Barry Williams (Greg) wrote in "Growing Up Brady" that the attic episode was filmed during the height of his courtship of Maureen McCormack (Marcia).

And the incest itself: If my brother casually strolled into my room and said I was the most beautiful girl in the entire world, before I kicked him out I would've asked him if he was drunk (well, I guess Sonny kind of was "drunk" ... drunk with possession, right?). Anyway, then Sonny tells her that they're going to play the photographer/famous model game (at that point, Sonny could've told her that they were going to play doctor, and I don't think Tricia would've batted an eye). I think (at least I hope) that any other sister would've told their brother to take it someplace else. Not Trish ... she immediately scambles up onto the bed ... and obediently takes her nightgown off. Finally she tells Sonny that she's had enough but then he produces ... the PANTIES. Anyone else (and again I'm hoping here) would've been like, "You sick mother f'er! MOM!! DAD!! GET IN HERE!!" But of course Tricia is like, "They're my panties. Why do you have my panties? Why?"

And I also just noticed the Jim Morrison poster on Sonny's bedroom wall. Not to drag Jim into this, but I just thought of The Doors song "The End". I THINK one of the lyrics is kind of like: "He paid a visit to his sister and then he ..." Right?

"FRA-GEE-LAY ... it must be Italian!"
"I think that says 'fragile', honey."

Mother, Brother secret lover. I'm kidding, that f@cking $hit was gross

The movie was pretty average, didn't do much for me. But to be honest, I thought the scenes with Trish and Sonny were pretty hot! Is it just me, or what?

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I would have been dissapointed if he DIDN'T molest his sister... I felt like it was leading to that and if they didn't do it, all the sexual tention between them would have been a waste.

~What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you~

first thing i thought was uh WHAT is she old enough to show those!