Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural

This is a must-own and must-see DVD, not only for horror movie enthusiasts but for anyone who has ever admired a horror movie, and also for anybody who has even entertained the notion of making an independent film. Sure, there are some slightly better organized tracks by filmmakers and crews, but few by filmmakers who made movies at this modest level of production, and who succeeded in generating anything nearly as good as Richard Blackburn's Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (or, as it was often shown, Lemora, the Lady Dracula). The film was a complete anomaly at the time of its release in 1973, a gothic horror tale steeped in Catholic iconography but dressed up in old-line Southern Protestant drag that also bypassed Richard Matheson's existing modern vampire imagery and leaped right over Stephen King's work, landing squarely in Anne Rice territory, long before Rice herself was known. Actually, the mere existence of Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural on DVD is somethi