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Bookmark this pageThe Godsend (1980)
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
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From Time Out Film Guide
There's more than a hint of The Omen in this horror movie about a family that is slowly destroyed by a little girl they adopt after her mother has mysteriously vanished. Despite some moments of artfully sustained menace, and the fact that both little girls playing the cuckoo-child look superbly malevolent, the script by Olaf Pooley rapidly becomes stilted, and the narrative development makes little sense. DMcG.Author: DMcG
Cast & crew
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Producer: Gabrielle Beaumont
Cast: Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence, Patrick Barr, Wilhelmina Green, Joanne Boorman full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 90 mins
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