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.

The film was released in the United States on 11 January 1980 by The Cannon Group, Inc.[4] Alan and Kate Marlowe are out an walk with their kids, Davy, Lucy, Sam, and baby Matthew.

One day, the family is playing hide and seek and Alan finds Sam dead in a barn.

The Marlowes begin to receive letters accusing them of killing their children and Kate falls into a depression.

Alan uses an analogy about Bonnie, saying that a cuckoo lays its eggs in another nest, and the fledgling pushing the others out to get the full attention of the parents.

Alan rushes back to London, where he learns that Kate had been pregnant, but miscarried due to the accident.

At a park, Alan sees the strange woman who gave birth to Bonnie, and is now pregnant, and talking to the mother.

The Cannon Group, Inc. released The Godsend theatrically in the United States on 11 January 1980, premiering it in Los Angeles.

"[7] The Austin American-Statesman's Patrick Taggart panned the film as "nothing but a study in how decent actors—Malcolm Stoddard and Cyd Hayman—are made to throw talent into a bottomless pit of ineptness on all fronts.

"[9] George Meyer, a film professor and critic, wrote in The Tampa Tribune that, "instead of frightening the viewer with costly gimmicks, Beaumont exploits some basic human fears, most of them involving our protective feelings about children," adding that while the film "makes good use of its limitations, it retains the look and feel of a limited effort.