# Psychopath husband and drugs in a food - thriller movie

**URL:** <https://filmfind.me/t/psychopath-husband-and-drugs-in-a-food-thriller-movie/7303>\
**Category:** Movies\
**Tags:** action, thriller\
**Created:** [June 19, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/psychopath-husband-and-drugs-in-a-food-thriller-movie/7303 "2024-06-19T06:00:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![wositelec](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@wositelec](https://filmfind.me/u/wositelec)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/psychopath-husband-and-drugs-in-a-food-thriller-movie/7303/1 "2024-06-19T06:00:04Z")

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My friend looking for a movie from the 80’s or early 90’s thriller movie.

The woman has an almost adult son and daughter and a third child of several years old. Her husband died and she married her husband’s work colleague. This second husband turned out to be a psychopath and imprisoned the whole family in the house. He gave them drugs in their food, so the children didn’t eat anything because they found out about the drugs and the youngest child was given to drink his own blood, they cut themselves and the child drank it so as not to die.

In the final scene the man wakes up in a grave underground and shouts for help. Then a scene is shown that a few years after that some bush grows in the place of the grave and the family looks at it with relief.

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**Author:** ![afamouspetty](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@afamouspetty](https://filmfind.me/u/afamouspetty)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 9:53am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/psychopath-husband-and-drugs-in-a-food-thriller-movie/7303/2 "2024-08-20T09:53:37Z")

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Could it possibly be First Born 1984? I don’t recall the ending other than serious abuse scene

> **[Firstborn (1984) ⭐ 6.2 | Drama, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087263/?ref_=ttpl_ov)**
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> 1h 43m | PG-13

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**Author:** ![mimiko33](https://filmfind.me/user_avatar/filmfind.me/mimiko33/32/12_2.png) [@mimiko33](https://filmfind.me/u/mimiko33)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/psychopath-husband-and-drugs-in-a-food-thriller-movie/7303/3 "2025-05-29T08:35:29Z")

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Perhaps one of The Stepfather movies?

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**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/psychopath-husband-and-drugs-in-a-food-thriller-movie/7303/4 "2026-02-27T10:31:09Z")

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Maybe this one? There are similarities:, read the below Wikipedia plot:

”Flowers in the Attic” (1987)

> **[Flowers in the Attic (1987 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic_(1987_film))**
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> Flowers in the Attic is a 1987 American psychological horror film directed by Jeffrey Bloom and starring Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, and Jeb Stuart Adams. Its plot follows four youngsters who, after the death of their father, are held captive in the attic of their abusive grandmother's sprawling estate by their cruel and manipulative mother. It is based on V. C. Andrews' 1979 novel of the same name.
> At one point, Wes Craven was scheduled to direct the film, and had comp...

Quotes from the above Wikipedia plot:  
”the children must be sequestered in a locked room”  
”The children struggle with their confinement”  
”Chris is forced to feed Cory his own blood.”

IMDb link:

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093036/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093036/)