Private Property (1960)

PRIVATE PROPERTY  (1960)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Leslie Stevens
    Kate Manx, Corey Allen, Warren Oates,
    Robert Ward, Jerome Cowan, Jules Maitland
A provocative, low-budget thriller about a couple of psychos who invade a house in the hills and terrorize the woman who lives there. Warren Oates plays one of the psychos, but the key performance is by Kate Manx as the victim, who's all Doris Day perkiness till she ends up in what would probably be Doris Day's worst nightmare. A chilling bit of stylized subversion, and a definite prototype for Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" movies. Manx committed suicide four years later at 34.