For almost 30 years, the only available copies of the movie were poorly made VHS tapes that were almost unwatchable and even those were as rare as hen's teeth. Entire scenes were literally faded out t the point where the scenes were impossible to see.
Synapse Films (Bahamut bless their souls!) released a digitally re-mastered version in Oct. 2004, mastered off a nearly pristine original negative. Words fail me when trying to describe what a great job they did.
Anyway, watching it on crystal-clear, perfect, high-quality DVD inspired me. The film has everything you could want in a creepy, mysterious AD&D adventure...insidious villains, a damsel in distress, new types of monsters, a curse, a mystery, a kidnapping, a seduction, haunted and mysterious locations, and so on.
Anyone interested in the film can do a Google search for "Lemora + vampire" or "Lemora + Synapse" and find plenty of info along with tons of reviews.
Back to the adventure...
I was inspired to use the characters and certain aspects of it in creating an AD&D adventure. Not just a re-telling of the story, but an expansion on it. I decided that aside from the fun of writing it (my own reward), it's such an obscure film that few if any players will know what's going on if a DM springs this on them. Of all the D&D gamers I know, not a single one so far has seen this movie.
It won't be very difficult to get the setting and tone down...I've seen the movie 100 times at least.
The summary of the movie is that a vampire woman named Lemora kidnaps a gangster whose daughter has been adopted by a local church. Lemora sends the child a letter telling her that her father is on his death bed and wants to see her, telling her to sneak away and tell no one, otherwise she won't be taken to see him.
The girl makes a scary and suspenseful journey to the town of Astaroth, where Lemora lives. She discovers that there are a group of people living in the salt marshes around Astaroth who are deformed, monstrous, and savage. Slowly, she comes to realize that Lemora is not as benevolent as she seems at first, and tries to flee, trying to escape the monsters in the woods and the vampire cult working for Lemora.
It's a lot better than it sounds with my super-brief review, but I think it'll make a damned good adventure module. There are enough plot elements and sub-plots that it can easily be expanded into an AD&D adventure.
So that's the story of Lemora and the Curse of Lemora adventure. I decided to call it the Curse of Lemora because the film does deal with what we could call a curse, on several levels, and also one of the alternate (overseas) titles was The Legendary Curse of Lemora. So I figured it'd be a tribute.
Well, if anyone has questions or suggestions, ideas, or whatever...feel free to post them here!
I tried to order the flick, however Synapse is twitching on the buy it now abilities 
