Death By Invitation (1971)

Director
Ken Friedman

Main cast
Shelby Leverington

Genres
Horror

Description
A young woman learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch. She decides to revenge her on the descendants of the people who had her killed.


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