Taglines: Revenge has a killer body.
Tamara movie storyline. An unpopular high school girl dies at the hands of her classmates when a cruel prank spins out of control, only to return from the land of the dead to seek revenge as a sexy seductress in this frightful feature from Final Destination screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick. Tamara was a quiet girl, and the cruelty of her classmates was relentless.
As their disdain for their mousy classmate reaches a fever pitch, Tamara’s sadistic classmates carry out a vicious practical joke that inadvertently results in the young outcast meeting her doom. Tamara isn’t the kind to stay down forever though, and when the once-homely girl returns from the grave with a killer new look and a body to die for, that’s exactly what her tormentors are about to do.
Tamara is a 2005 Canadian-American horror film, released only in select theatres by City Lights Pictures, a Manhattan-based production company. It was released to US cinemas on February 3, 2006. It averaged $2,084 at 14 theatres, for a weekend gross of $29,157. It was in US cinemas for 13 weeks, and finished with a gross of $206,871.
About the Story
Tamara Riley is a shy and unattractive but intelligent girl who likes witchcraft and has a crush on Bill Natolly, her handsome English teacher. When a critical article she writes about the school’s athletes is published, two of the star athletes, Shawn and Patrick, want revenge. Tamara attempts to perform a magical ritual to bind her fate to that of her teacher, but when she must spill her own blood she ceases the ritual.
That night, a prank is orchestrated by Shawn and Patrick, along with Shawn’s girlfriend Kisha. Shawn calls Tamara, impersonating Mr. Natolly, and invites her to a motel room. A video camera is placed there and catches Tamara undressing. Shawn, Patrick, and Kisha watch this, along with three others who did not know about the prank (Chloe, Jesse, and Roger). Shawn comes in and taunts Tamara, and Tamara is accidentally killed in a struggle. Despite Chloe’s demands that they inform the police, she is blackmailed into helping bury Tamara.
However the very next day, they are shocked when Tamara walks into class, alive and well and looking more attractive than ever before. They convince themselves that she was only unconscious and she dug her way out of the ground. That night, while Roger is watching a movie in the school AV room, the image on the screen suddenly changes to the video of Tamara.
Roger removes the tape and is confronted by Tamara. She torments him with hallucinations of what it is like to be buried alive and with his history of cutting himself. The next day, he sends a televised message to the entire school in which he proclaims that one should ‘hear no evil, speak no evil, and see no evil.’ He then cuts off his ear and tongue with a razor blade, then stabs himself in the eye, which kills him.
Tamara then visits the home of Mr. Natolly, intending to seduce him. However, when he resists her, she says that “it is only a matter of time.” The next day, she visits the school guidance counselor, Allison Natolly, the wife of Mr. Natolly. Tamara confronts Allison, mentioning Allison and Bill’s infertility problems. Realizing that her father fantasizes about being with her and that his alcoholism drove her mother away, Tamara makes her father “finish the bottle”, requiring him to eat a beer bottle.
At a party, Tamara puts a spell on Patrick and Shawn, and forces them to have sex with each other, with Patrick raping Shawn, just as he has done to girls in the past. Kisha attempts to stop Tamara, but is incapacitated when Tamara begins to talk about Kisha’s eating disorder. Tamara tells Kisha that she is “skin and bone, and really should eat more.” Kisha begins to eat herself into a stupor, but is taken away by Jesse and Chloe. When Chloe and Jesse call Mr. Natolly and tell him about what happened, Kisha (still under the spell) calls Tamara and tells her that Mr. Natolly knows. Kisha is knocked out by Chloe.
Chloe, Jesse, and Mr. Natolly go to Tamara’s house, where they find the corpse of Tamara’s father and a spellbook describing the ritual Tamara tried to perform. They realize that when they killed Tamara that night, her blood was spilled. It was because of Tamara’s blood being spilled that the ritual was completed and allowed her to rise from the grave as what she is.
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Tamara (2006)
Directed by: Jeremy Haft
Starring: Jenna Dewan, Matthew Marsden, Chad Faust, Gil Hacohen, Melissa Elias, Katie Stuart, Claudette Mink, Sarah Blondin, Magally Zelaya, Ernesto Griffith, Brian Davisson
Screenplay by: Jeffrey Reddick
Production Design by: Gordon Wilding
Cinematography by: Scott Kevan
Film Editing by: Eric Strand
Costume Design by: Linda Madden
Set Decoration by: Shawna Balas
Music by: Mike Suby
MPAA Rating: R for sequences of strong bloody violence, language, sexuality and teen drinking.
Distributed by: City Lights Pictures
Release Date: February 3, 2006
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