 Welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started. What are we drinking today? We are drinking which finder general It is a German chocolate Rogan beer today. We are going to be featuring 1973's Lamora a child's tale of the supernatural this movie was written and directed by Richard Blackburn He didn't do much, but he did direct an episode of Tales from the dark side he was also the voice of dr. Zaeus in the TV show for Planet of the apes Weird like what a weird fucking resume Dr.. Zaeus dr. Zaeus Do Dr.. Zaeus dr. Zaeus the movie stars Cheryl Smith Leslie Taplin is in this and High Pike is in this using Blade Runner the movie vamp and Dolomite Lamora starts off with a couple of people in bed and getting it on a little bit and all of a sudden boom the door kicks open boom boom Somebody has a rifle and just blows this couple away He gets into his car and he takes off Rightfully so after you just blown a couple people away Breaks down almost in front of like this house There's this woman and all of a sudden he gets attacked by all these people in cloaks It cuts to the main lead of the movie Lila Lee. She's in church and she's singing a Religious hymn Lila Lee is the daughter of this guy who blew those two people away in bed Kind of this well-known gangster the Reverend of the church has taken Lila Lee in she gets a letter from this woman named Lamora saying that her dad is Staying with her and that he's taken ill and he wants to Basically make amends with her and say goodbye and she goes up to a couple people to ask for a ride to like the bus station And they don't want anything to do with it She ends up sneaking into the car in the back seat. They're kind of talking about her Don't you know what she's doing with that Reverend? There's you know, everybody's talking about it. Well, she's in town There's weird these weird people and everything and these people staring at her as she's walking by Some guys all slap this I'll teach you to fool around with my friends And even the guy at the ticket booth is fucking weird, too. Well, you want a chocolate? Everyone's making these weird vances at her. Yeah, you're lo and behold the bus drivers fucking weird, too She's the only one on the bus, too, right and it's nighttime and it's creepy as hell So they start driving through the countryside All these people Started to show up in the woods. They got a weird stare to them They call it the asteroths look so all of a sudden the bus starts to break down and all of a sudden He gets swarmed by all these weird monster looking people. These monsters get attacked by other normal looking people She wakes up in this weird hut. There's this old lady that comes into this hut She's so fucking creepy dancing around her this weird fairytale type song. What the fuck is up with this shit? Country shit going on. She trips the old woman Comes in to give her food and she runs and she escapes and she hides underneath the house and she listens Gets caught by Lamora. She's like introduced to those children reaching for through the bars of the stairs Laughing again Lamora takes Lila and actually bathes her see something kind of like behind this mirror and it's weird creature And it's like her dad attacks her Lamora takes his torch and I drives him out and he jumps through like this window. Yeah, it's crazy Our people have turned ugly and animal life Yeah, but it's not gonna happen to you after the ceremony You'll be fine and then she looks out her bedroom window and sees another child being dragged screaming This is too fucked up Decides to escape and she gets out her for room and sees Lamora with this kid that same kid Goes down and bites the child's neck Lila screams Lamora looks up So Lamora rounds up these cloaked figures We saw earlier and they go and chase down Lila as she's on the run Mm-hmm, and that's where we're gonna end the plot point for Lamora The child's tale of the supernatural if you want to see what happens hunt down the movie and and watch it because it's quite a Trip yeah, that's for sure a 70s trip one of the best things about this movie is the atmosphere It is so atmosphere. It's so heavy. You could cut it with a knife for God's sake It's so dreamy and and fairy tale Yeah, and it's so raw to this movie even though it does have that fairy tale like quality to it It feels realistic. Yeah, even so right? Yeah, it's interesting how they managed to do that. That's not easy No, it's got that raw low budget Texas chainsaw massacre type vibe to it But like a dreamy fairy tale version they managed to do a fantastic job of all those night shots, too But I'm lighting it really yeah heavy with the blue yellow blue light and that helps with the fairy tale Quality yeah unique quality to it that I haven't really seen in a movie before or since you can tell that Richard Blackburn had like a clear vision. Yeah of exactly what he knew he was doing Yeah, and you can tell he had to pull it off with a budget when the movie starts off with a fucking bang Boom boom and it's like jarring and it looks fucking visceral and like holy shit And then you see those monsters in the forest and they look really good, too Like everything looks good in this movie bus drivers all weird It's like is he like almost a monster or something You think he's part of everything you think that he is like working for a Lamora, but no He's just a weird guy happens to fucking get killed on their way, you know It's fast-paced to kind of keep you entertained Yeah, but it slows down to where they need to to explain the story and to kind of keep you captivated, right? Yeah, they just feed you little bits. There's there's points in this movie like there's long periods where there's no dialogue Not once are you bored? Yeah, you're just like mesmerized by these visuals and like well, I don't care that there's no dialogue or no explanation I just want to keep watching to see how this is gonna unravel, you know, it's intriguing the whole movie is one big metaphor yeah, and for what I guess it can be up to debate because it's it's it's not glaring it's not like Force fed to you on the silver platter like this is what the movie means you really have to like go to bed that night Thinking about it. You're gonna probably wake up the next day like hmm. Yeah, what does that movie mean? What's it trying to say because it's obviously trying to say something exactly. Yeah I think the fact that it's a child's tale of the supernatural is Says it all the whole movie is from Lila Lee's perspective, right? Right? You don't see anything that she doesn't see exactly. She's a child So everything on the outside of that is strange. Yeah, and new. Yeah, and weird and dreamy Yeah, which is why it's probably filmed the way it is because oh that's you're seeing it through a child's eye Frightened child's eyes, right? Yeah, and everybody's weird and making advances on her This movie really deals with the fact is there is no good or evil. It's all it's all bad It's all bad. Yeah, no matter what no matter where Lila turns. She's being corrupted by something Yeah, either by the Reverend, you know Lamora seems like okay Well, she's gonna liberate me from this man who might take advantage of me But Lamora is just using you to yep She's just for her own gains right so no matter what this poor child is being used by somebody exactly There's no escaping at some point a child is gonna be corrupted And I think that's what this movie is it's it's gonna happen at some point It's gonna be the reverence can be the Lamora something's gonna happen where it's like you're no longer Innocent the fact that Lamora's people are turning into monsters shows that I don't think there's any Escaping it right all people turn into monsters at some point some point in their life Yeah, and it also mirrors the real world too because For the most part the real world is quite dark. Yeah, it's not It's not all you know bubblegum and fairy tales. This movie. I think is horror at its core There's core because it is a nightmare what scares people they're nightmares is what scares them right dreams So if you want a good trip through a child's nightmare Definitely watch Lamora child's tale of the supernatural. Yeah, it has a very raw feel like children shouldn't play with dead things Yeah Text chainsaw massacre. Yeah, that's shoestring budget, but lightning in a bottle at the same time It really hits the mark. Yeah, and it hits it heavy I think it takes two watches to really get everything and you definitely I think need to be drinking while you're Watching it. Yeah, so until next time keep drinking