Reading its premise it reminded me immediately of an old favorite of mine "The Bad Seed" and to a minor extent "Bloody Birthday". These movies all have one thing in common, all of them are a devilish child (in Bloody Birthday it's even 3 kids)lacking some kind of conscience and who get a thrill out of killing people. They even get away with those crimes in the beginning, fooling people who are wondering how that could have happened. At some point someone close to them gets suspicious. The motives however are in each case different. Rhoda from The Bad Seed was pretty materialistic. If she thought she deserved or wanted something (being it a prize, an object) she just took it and resorted to killing the person trying to deny it to her. The 3 kids from Bloody Birthday really didn't have a clear motive they just seemed to do it because they could even though people trying to stand in their way were more likely to be victimized. And last but not least there is Godsend Bonnie with angelic blonde hair and face, born from a mysterious woman who disappeared the next morning after giving birth in a home of a household of a couple with 4 children. The couple decides to raise Bonnie as one of their own. Bonnie is still only a baby when she commits her first murder. She doesn't kill for fun nor for material things, but weird enough for love. She wants the love of her parents for her alone. And she tries to get rid of those who she has to share the attention with, being her stepbrothers and sister. The good thing is all her killings are clever and mysterious since all but the last happen of screen. Of course with each loss the parents gets more and more depressed, the mother the most. The father on the other hand tries to find out how it happened and gets really suspicious of Bonnie when a third kid dies. The mother refuses to think bad of her little angel and more and more conflicts happen between the parents something Bonnie handily takes advantage of. The ending is quite open which might be cliché for these type of movies but I like it. Trying to break such a circle won't make it stop as there is a big chance such a circle can begin out of nothing somewhere else again. No matter how much we try there will always be evil to deal with.

Another movie about a seemingly cute child with a not-so-cute side; Portland's video/DVD store Movie Madness has in the horror section a whole shelf devoted to Killer Kids. In this case, a typical English family one day picks up a woman who gives birth in their house and then disappears without a trace, leaving her infant daughter with them. Sure enough, their children start getting killed. Basically a rehash of "The Bad Seed", "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Omen". Still, "The Godsend" has a neat side, as the vicious little girl makes some faces that no one would ever associate with a little girl; she did look kind of scary.But in the grand scheme of things, there's nothing new or important about this movie. Not to mention that it ends rather abruptly. Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus produced much better movies over the years. This is the sort of flick that you rent if there's absolutely nothing else available.

Although I haven't watched this movie in at least seven years, I have always enjoyed watching it. I personally thought that the movie was a great one to watch. It may be on the low end of horror flicks as far as bloodiness and actually murder scenes, but it does get the point across. I have been unable to find this movie in video stores, even ones with older movies. So, even if anyone wants to watch the movie it may be hard to find. I truly loved the context of the movie. I think that it does show the lack of technology that we had in the 1980's compared to now, but I have seen many movies from the 1980's that are about the same in the technology area. However, it doesn't make them bad. However, this is just my opinion.

The film is basically a complete rip-off of the evil child genre and, to be honest, Omen makes a much better job of it. A young couple, living in an idyllic country setting, are visited by a pregnant woman who gives birth at their house and then disappears mysteriously leaving her baby daughter. A series of "accidental" deaths follows in the household and eventually the parents come to realise that the demonic child is the cause.The film adds nothing to the genre, but it is almost worth watching just for the evil child. After each death, the camera zooms up on her face and she wears an expression of pure evil. Very disturbing. I remember seeing the film when I was 15 and could not forget her face.Apart from that, the Godsend is pretty missable.