Horror baby
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Horror baby |
| Original title | The Godsend |
| Country of production | UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gabrielle Beaumont |
| script | Olaf Pooley |
| production | Gabrielle Beaumont |
| music | Roger Webb |
| camera | Norman Warwick |
| cut | Michael Ellis |
| occupation | |
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Horror Baby is a British horror film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont in 1980. Olaf Pooley adapted the novel The Godsend by Bernard Taylor into a screenplay.
action
The young married couple Alan and Kate Marlowe live in a remote house in the country and make a happy family with their four children. One afternoon a mysterious young woman with a piercing look asks to be admitted. She is very pregnant, monosyllabic and, according to her own statement, needs a break. Alan is just about to take her outside to his car to drive her home when the stranger goes into labor. Kate accompanies the birth, which proceeds without complications. The next morning the stranger disappeared - she left her newborn girl behind. The Marlowes call it Bonnie and adopt it after its second birthday.
Over the years that Bonnie lived with them, their three youngest biological children were killed in an accident. After the death of the third child, Kate suffers a nervous breakdown as the media begins to take an interest in the rampant deaths in the family. The loss in itself is actually hard enough to bear. So the Marlowes decide to move to town with their two daughters Lucy and Bonnie.
When Lucy was about 9 years old, father Alan watched Bonnie try to injure her adoptive sister in the playground. Alan has long suspected that something is wrong with Bonnie. Now he considers it appropriate to confront his wife with his findings and to draw conclusions. He is certain that Bonnie brought about the deaths of his three youngest children and that Lucy, the eldest, is also after. Kate thinks all of this is a pipe dream and refuses to give Bonnie away. It comes to a dispute - henceforth the couple lives separately. Even after Lucy dies in a lintel in front of her eyes, Kate does not believe her husband.
While Alan's stroll through the park, a doctor friend advises him to leave what he has experienced behind him, to rearrange his life and to go into the future relaxed. But then Alan is gripped by sheer horror again - on a park bench is the very woman who brought all the disaster into his family. Again she is very pregnant, and again she speaks to a mother with small children and goes with her.
background
Some scenes were filmed in Hyde Park, London. The Royal Albert Hall can be seen in the background.
Relation to other films
The topic was taken up again in 2009 in Orphan - The Orphan . There, however, the father of the family is the doubting, unreasonable parent.
criticism
"A horror film that is conventional in its external design, which tries to deepen the psychological aspect, but largely gets stuck in the path of the usual horror effects."
Web links
- Horror Baby in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horror Baby. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 11, 2014 .