Death by Invitation (1971)
The wonderful Shelby Leverington plays Lise, a young woman who befriends and works her way in with a well to do family who burned her ancestor, or perhaps her - it's not actually clear - at the stake for witchcraft centuries earlier.
Death by Invitation isn't your typical horror film, it mixes chills with a psychedelic eeriness - the sort of cheap movie making Anna Biller would riff on years later - and it's most memorable scene involves Lise telling the story of a tribe of man eating women to a prospective victim in a scene of weird eroticism.
In truth Death by Invitation doesn't really do much. It's over talky, perhaps due to it's very low budget, but it held me in a transfixed state throughout, or rather Leverington's performance did, in a way that only cheap n' nasty American regional movies of the time can achieve.
I enjoyed Death by Invitation, but it's only recommended to a certain few.
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