Richard Blackburn's Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural is an undeniably crude, but surprisingly effective low-budget horror film. The film was cheaply made, and features shoddy monster makeup, shaky cinematography, and extremely uneven performances. While Lesley Gilb, as the titular vampiress, and Cheryl Smith, as the innocent Lila Lee, keep the film rooted with their solid performances, writer-director Richard Blackburn is embarrassingly wooden as Lila's would-be protector. Every other man Lila comes across on her journey is some kind of leering, drooling ogre, but this actually enhances the film's creepy, sordid, fairy-tale feel. This is also the case with the film's clunky, ham-fisted dialogue. "The real sin is for a girl to deny herself life and joy," Lemora intones. Somehow the grungy look, and the lewd -- not explicitly erotic or violent -- treatment of the material enhances its primal proficiency as it taps into childlike fears and desires, and notions of good and evil. The bare-bones treatment gives the film a raw immediacy. Unlike many films depicting the seduction of the innocent, Lemora makes the lure of sin palpable. It's hardly a classic of the genre, but it's bound to be remembered by those who see it.