The Godsend (1980)

Directed by

Gabrielle Beaumont

Genre

horror film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family takes in a baby girl from a mysterious woman. As they raise her, their other children start dying in strange accidents.

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What happens

The Godsend is a 1980 British horror film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont, written by Olaf Pooley, and starring Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence, Patrick Barr, Wilhelmina Green, and Joanne Boorman. It follows a family who adopt an infant girl from a strange woman, only to find that, as they raise her, their other children begin to die in a series of mysterious accidents. It is based on the 1976 novel The Godsend by Bernard Taylor. The film was released in the United States on 11 January 1980 by The Cannon Group, Inc. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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