Screen adaptation of the novel by Bernard Taylor ' Grace', 1976.
A happy family with four children accidentally encounters a strange pregnant woman on a walk and, obeying the duty of politeness, invites her for tea.
She has a motionless frozen face, the owners clearly get goosebumps, and they take a minute to whisper to the kitchen. The guest cuts off the telephone wire, and when the father of the family strongly offers to give her a car to the village, she begins contractions.
In the morning, the door is wide open, and in the room where the unknown gave birth, only a newborn baby wrapped in a mother’s handkerchief ...
One of those thrillers when the ending is clear from the beginning, and it remains only powerless to watch the development of events. Perhaps the book gave an explanation of the background of what is happening, but the film is built on the principle of crypipaste: we are shown evil, of unknown nature, but pursuing a simple and understandable goal.
The monstrous mother replied to polite questions that she had many children, how many she did not know, and that in the winter she usually moved to the south, where it was warmer. Is she really not a man, but a bird? No answer.
6 out of 10