Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural

Overview:

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

Released: 1973-05-01

Duration: 01:25:00

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Keywords: Pedophile, Erotic 70s, Sexuality, ...

Director: Richard Blackburn

Writer: Richard Blackburn, Robert Fern

Cast: Cheryl Smith, Hy Pyke, Parker West, ...

Director: Richard Blackburn

Writer: Richard Blackburn Robert Fern

Cast: Cheryl Smith Hy Pyke Parker West Richard Blackburn Lesley Gilb William Whitton Maxine Ballantyne Steve Johnson Charla Hall Jack Fisher Buck Buchanan

Genre: Fantasy Horror Thriller

Keywords: Pedophile Erotic 70s Sexuality Teenage Girl Woman Wrapped In A Towel No Panties Scantily Clad Female Female Protagonist Teenager Teenage Protagonist Dysfunctional Family Mysterious Woman Kidnapped Girl Abducted Woman Unfaithful Wife Adulterous Wife Adultery Extramarital Affair Barefoot Female Lesbian Character Naive Girl Crying Female Crying Girl Brief Female Nudity Female Rear Nudity Female Nudity Female Topless Nudity Blonde Prostitute Bathtub Female Name In Title Character Name In Title Camera Shot Of Eyes Pointing A Gun At Someone Murder By Shooting Murder By Gunshot Shooting Gunshot Hit By A Car Shotgun Post Coital Scene Blood Spurting Blood Secretly Observing Church Singer Shot To Death Death By Gunshot Speech Biblical Reference Flashback Family Relationships Newspaper Clipping Letter Packing Packing A Suitcase Doll Christian Christianity Visit Church Singer As Protagonist Hiding Behind A Tree Overhearing A Conversation Singer As Protagonist Urination Bible Biblical Quotation Sexual Tension Violence Slapped In The Face Male Female Fight Fight Street Fight Newspaper Sleeping In A Car Sleeping In A Bus Woods Forest Mysterious Event Bus Accident Car Accident Traffic Accident Accident Screaming Woman Scream Breaking A Window Broken Window Broken Car Window Breaking A Car Window Locked Door Locked In Captive Old Woman Character's Point Of View Camera Shot Abduction Abducted Girl Kidnapping Praying Prayer Telephone Call Loss Of Mother Cheating Wife Escape Chase Foot Chase Hiding Place Eavesdropping Vampiress Female Vampire Strong Female Character Female Antagonist Female Villain Villainess Guest Room Boy Little Boy Mirror Broken Mirror Manipulative Behavior Gramophone Reference To Jesus Christ Drugged Drink Listening To Music Dance Scene Manipulative Woman Manipulative Person Undressing Humming Taking A Bath Virgin Coming Of Age Bechdel Test Passed Crucifix Washing Someone Necklace Wrapped In A Towel Book Lesbian Villain Reunion Father Daughter Relationship Father Daughter Reunion Cleaver Torch Jumping Out A Window Disease Orphan Blood Stain Ripped Clothing Loss Of Father Carrying Someone Carrying A Child In One's Arms Bedtime Story Female Pedophile Gift Female Criminal Serial Abductor Naivete Damsel In Distress Dead Body Portrait Photograph Portrait Photograph Framed Photograph Diary Reading Someone Else's Diary Pedophile Vampire Suspicion Portrait Painting Painting Learning The Truth Biting Someone Climbing A Tree Running Through The Woods Female Boss Hiding In A Car Coffin Lying In A Coffin Hiding In A Coffin Lantern Falling From Height Female Sex Abuser Sex Abuser Sexual Predator Slow Motion Scene Slow Motion Fight Scene Repeated Scene Massacre Trauma Crying Barn Sleeping In A Barn Directed By Cast Member Written By Cast Member Written And Directed By Cast Member Allegory Matriarch Matriarchy Transformation Metamorphosis Freeze Frame Sexual Symbolism Folk Horror 1920s Urban Fantasy Repeated Event Innocence Man Teenage Girl Relationship Eating Raw Meat Child Held Captive Burning Someone With A Torch Drinking Blood Vampire Teeth Seduction Psychotronic Film Bloody Face Clothed Female Naked Female Scene Apology Woman Carries A Woman In Her Arms Apostrophe In Title Colon In Title Adult Actress Plays A Teenage Girl Bloody Mouth Capture Father Attacks His Daughter Daughter Murders Her Father Husband Murders His Wife Kiss Listening To A Radio Man Hits A Woman Man Slaps A Woman Death No Reflection In A Mirror Woman In A Bathtub Nudity Bossiness Nude Teenage Girl Female Bare Back Brief Female Rear Nudity Girl Takes A Bath Slit Dress Shot With A Shotgun Gangster Father Wearing A Hood 13 Year Old Girl Hiding In The Backseat Of A Car Teenage Girl Wears Lingerie Voyeur Teenage Girl With Pigtails Sexual Innuendo Engine Trouble Growling Man

Description

During the Prohibition era in the Southern United States, the devout 13-year-old Lila Lee is summoned by letter to visit her injured father, a gangster, before he dies. She runs away from the Reverend, who has raised her and in whose church she has become well known as a singer, though her extraordinary beauty is beginning to attract attention as well. Lila boards a bus to her father's purported location, the strange town of Astaroth. At the bus station, the ticket salesman informs Lila that the people there are strange, and that visitors rarely return from the town. That night, the bus Lila is riding, in which she is the only passenger, is attacked by a band of mindless vampires as it approaches the woods surrounding Astaroth. The vampires kill the bus driver, and Lila crashes the bus while attempting to flee. She is attacked by the creatures, but rescued by a mysterious woman named Lemora.

When she regains consciousness, Lila finds herself locked in a cottage outside a farmhouse, where she is tended to by Solange, an elderly hag-like woman who feeds her. Lila attacks Solange and escapes the cottage, fleeing to the farmhouse where she hides in a crawlspace. She hears her father's voice from inside the home, but before she can find him, Lila is confronted by Lemora, who informs her she cannot see her father under she is immune to his "disease." Lila finds that Lemora boards numerous other children in her home, all of whom, like her, are pallid and sickly in appearance.

It becomes evident that Lemora highly covets Lila, bathing her and attempting to soothe her. While alone, Lila is violently attacked by her father, who appears severely mutated. He attacks Solange, killing her, before Lemora chases him away with a torch. Lemora explains that some of the townspeople of Astaroth have become sick, and refers to an impending ceremony in which Lila will participate. After reading a diary of a child in Lemora's home, she soon realizes the truth: Lemora is a vampire who feeds upon children and is holding her father captive. She is also the unofficial queen of the Astaroth vampires, and plans to turn Lila into one of her own.

While trying to escape, Lila embarks on a nighttime journey through the town of Astaroth, witnessing the two types of vampires: one faction is like Lemora herself, relatively human in behavior and appearance, while the others are mutated or perhaps regressed, far more feral in behavior and monstrous in form; and the two groups are at war. Meanwhile, the Reverend, who is seeking Lila, manages to retrace her steps.

After a climactic battle which leaves most of the vampires dead, Lila is forced to kill her own father, who has become one of the degenerates. As she weeps over his corpse, Lemora approaches her and offers her comfort by her vampire's kiss. When the Reverend shows up not long after, he finds Lila willing, even eager to kiss him. He resists at first, then he gives in. That is when she drives her fangs into his throat and drains his blood, watched over by a smiling Lemora.

In the last scene, Lemora is seen singing before her church congregation.

A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night from her minister guardian, Lila embarks on a terrifying journey...