Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Richard Blackburn

Writers:

Richard Blackburn (screenplay)
Robert Fern (screenplay)

Release Date:

May 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Run, little girl! Innocence is in peril tonight!

Plot:

A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft. |

Plot Keywords:

Lesbian Interest | Vampire | Dracula | Independent Film | Character Name In Title

Cast

Lesley Gilb	...	Lemora
Cheryl Smith	...	Lila Lee
William Whitton	...	Alvin Lee
Hy Pyke	...	The Bus Driver
Maxine Ballantyne	...	The Old Woman
Steve Johnson	...	The Ticket Seller
Parker West	...	The Young Man
Charla Hall
Jack Fisher
Buck Buchanan
Richard Blackburn	...	The Reverend

Also Known As:

Lady Dracula
Lemora, the Lady Dracula (USA) (TV title)
The Legendary Curse of Lemora
The Rape of the Vampires (USA) (reissue title)

Runtime:

80 min | USA:113 min (uncut version) | USA:85 min (DVD version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Pomona, California, USA

Company:

Blackfern

Quotes:

Lemora: Tomorrow, after the ceremony, you and I will become blood sisters... and all my power... all my beauty... all my life will be yours to share.
Lila Lee: What kind of ceremony? In the church?
Lemora: Yes.
Lila Lee: Baptist?
Lemora: Oh, no. Much more ancient than that. A church that all the others came from. A ceremony that goes so far back no-one knows when it began.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Confessions of Lemora (1994) (V)

Soundtrack:

Just A Closer Walk with Thee

Better than what movie books would have one believe

Hey now, I picked this up on DVD, a film that I'd been lusting after for some time but had never been able to find it, and now, well, I've seen it and I have to say it's far better than what my movie books say. A young girl (the daughter of a gangster) is living at a church and singing in the choir, proof that good triumphs over evil. Along comes a mysterious letter that says her father the gangster is dying, and to please come. So she packs a bag and sets out to see him one last time. Things don't turn out quite like she expected. Little did she know she was wandering into vampire country. There's a truly creepy little band of vampire children, dressed in bright colors and gypsy & pirate outfits like they were in some hellish version of Peter Pan. There's nasty things that live in the woods, mutated humans that are out for the flesh and blood of whomever wanders nearby. And of course there's Lemora, who is the vampire queen, I guess. A twist ending to this too, one that was quite a surprise to me. This is beautifully filmed and quite colorful given the subject matter. I was very pleased to finally be able to see this and I'd recommend it to any vampire fan.