Review of The Devil's Daughter

This film begins with a woman named "Alice Shaw" (Diane Ladd) walking home from church only to find two strange men in her living room waiting for her. When they tell her they are here for her daughter she refuses to tell them anything. Then when another man comes in on crutches she becomes exceedingly fearful and threatens to shoot him. Unfortunately, when she fires the bullet kills her instead. The next scene has a young woman named "Diane Shaw" (Belinda Montgomery) at the cemetery where her mother is being laid to rest. As she turns to walk away she is greeted by a woman named "Lilith Malone" (Shelley Winters) who claims to be a good friend of her mother and offers to let Diane stay at her house since she has come from another city for the funeral. Diane accepts the invitation but soon begins to realize that things are not as they seem. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a pretty good made-for-television movie which benefited from the eerie atmosphere and subtle horror from start to finish. Admittedly, there were parts which were quite predictable but it was still a decent film all the same and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.