Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Death by Invitation (1971)


Paragon Films
Directed by Ken Friedman
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Vinegar Syndrome)

In flashbacks, a witch is condemned to death by a mob of Dutch villagers. In modern day America, she takes revenge on their descendants by slowly murdering the family of a wealthy man. Shelby Leverington as "the witch" goes on long soliloquies about a lost tribe of women who preyed on animals and then came back to feed their men. In one shocking scene, she holds the decapitated head of a little girl in front of her sister. On the other hand, there are also long, inexplicable scenes, such as the conversation between her boyfriend and a wealthy man that takes place in an office with very loud muzak playing. It's an amateur production to be sure, but Friedman did go on to have a modest Hollywood career as a director and writer as such films as White Line Fever.

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