Run, little girl! Innocence is in peril tonight!
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...
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Grave, unpretentious, bleak and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Wuchakon TMDB · May 20226/10
_**Cult flick of dreamy gothic horror with Cheryl Smith**_ In early 30’s America, a girl (Smith) who lives with a minister is summoned by letter to the town of Ashtaroth to visit her dying father, a gangster. There she encounters horrific beings in the woods and the curiously calm and collected Lemora (Lesley Taplin), who welcomes her into her Victorian mansion. Horror ensues. “Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural” (1973) is colorful dreamlike horror by one-shot director, Richard Blackburn, a college student who concocted the story with a pal inspired by “Count Yorga, Vampire” (1970). Blackburn, by the way, plays the minister. An alternative title is “Lady Dracula,” which is fitting since the story is reminiscent of the first part of Dracula, just exchanging a teenage blonde for Jonathan Harker and Lemora for the Count, not to mention switching the setting to Prohibition Era America. It’s similar in ways to the haunting “Messiah of Evil” (1973) except with a younger protagonist and the milieu of the early 30s. Francis Ford Coppola presumably borrowed bits for his horror fantasy “Twixt” (2011). The lovely Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith was only 17 during shooting and has a genuine i
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Cast
- Lesley Gilb TaplinLemora
- Cheryl SmithLila Lee
- William WhittonAlvin Lee
- Hy PykeThe Bus Driver
- Maxine BallantyneThe Old Woman
- Steve JohnsonThe Ticker Seller
- Parker WestThe Young Man
- Richard BlackburnThe Reverend
- Charla Hall
- Jack Fisher
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- Richard BlackburnDirector
- Richard BlackburnScreenplay
- Robert FernScreenplay
- Robert CaramicoDirector of Photography
- Dan NeufeldOriginal Music Composer
- Pieter HubbardEditor
- Robert FernProducer
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