10 Obscure Folk Horror Movies You Need To Watch

Falling firmly into the "such a total and utter sh*tshow that it's an absolute triumph" category, 1973's Lemora is an unabated car crash of a film. The cinematic catastrophe is quite literally so bad that viewers feel genuinely guilty for enjoying it, but somehow always find themselves doing so.

Set in the Prohibition-era United States, Lemora's folk-centric element is vampires. Young Lila is summoned to see her mafioso father before he dies, where she is subsequently intercepted by Lesley Taplin's Lemora. Loe and behold, Lemora turns out to be a vampire, who is planning to add Lila to her undead ranks. Lemora is revealed to have multiple other children imprisoned, in addition to Lila's now monstrously formed father, in what swiftly devolves into a farcical series of events.

While the attempt to subvert the clichés upon which the film is based fall dismally flat, the attempts to do so at the time Lemora was released are commendable to say the least. Despite this and the wave of negative critical reception upon its debut, the hammy performances and wacky plot means that Lemora inexplicably remains an entertaining disaster of a film and well worth a watch for any folk horror fan. One might even argue that any aspiring coneissuer of the sub-genre's repertoire would be incomplete without it.