Set in the American rural South in the 1930s, this offbeat vampire film opens with the murder of an adulterous couple by the woman's husband, notorious gangster Alvin Lee (William Whitton). Lee, it ensues, has an adolescent daughter named Lila (Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith), who's been raised a ward of the Baptist church under the watchful eye of a strict but dangerously repressed Reverend (writer-director Richard Blackburn), and achieved regional fame as "the singing angel," by virtue of her tremulous voice and radiant demeanor. The Reverend is famous for his fiery sermons, in which Lila's purity, obedience and dedication to God serve as vivid illustration of faith's a...
Released:
1973
Rated:
NR
Length:
80 mins