Tamara

I give an 'A' for effort for two reasons: 1) while the story idea is not entirely original, there were enough intricacies and differences to make for an entertaining movie and 2) the lead actress was terrific. She starts out as an introverted, repressed target for bullies then, by the end of the movie, she is a dominant powerful force of violent fury...and she pulls it off so well!As for the overall execution, the pacing was so-so (thus the 'C'). There were parts of the movie that could've been tightened-up, meaning that the scene already made its point but they kind of dragged it out....almost as if the director didn't think the viewer was smart enough to catch it the first time through, so the characters repeat/reiterate the same thing again.The other facet of average execution was the acting of the supporting cast, especially the two primary male antagonists. I don't know if it is a matter of the rest of the cast being so mediocre or if it was a matter of the lead being so much better, but the disparity between the lead and the supporting cast definitely detracted from an otherwise fun, enjoyable movie.Despite the pacing and some of the acting, this movie is exactly what one wants (OK, at least me) from a horror movie: some good gore (albeit a little light on this front, too), some good scares, and a good way to spend 90 minutes on a cold, gray afternoon in the midwest.

The story starts off pretty much like any 80's horror film, where a group of dumb highschool kids decide to play a prank on the oucast,only to have it end in death. See our lead is quiet girl who chooses to do her work rather than drink and party, but she gets the attention of a couple jocks when she posts a report of enhance-performing drug-use amongst the team in the school paper. This naturally leads them to come up with this insane scheme to publicly humiliate her. After discovering her attraction to a male teacher, the punks decide to pretend that the teach wants to meet her in a motel room, all-the-while they'll have a camera recording her undressing and making a fool of herself. The jig is up when one of em busts out of the bathroom and surprises her with the camera, causing her to frantically run outside, and in a fit of rage, to the next room, where the group of teens are hiding. She attempts to fight them, but instead hits her head on the table,which ultimately kills her--at least, so they thought. After burying her body , they make a pact to not tell anyoneabout it. Luckily for them, she strolls into class the next day a new woman -- short skirt and all. It turns out the night before, she attepted touse her witchcraft to create a love spell in hopes of getting her teacher's affection; hence, why she was so enthused when he supposedly calls out of the blue wanting to meet her in a motel. Apparently the spell causes her to return from the dead because she is now bound to the teacher and not even death can stop them from being togethor. The only remotely original thing this movie offers is the fact that Tamara can control anyone she touches.This leads to interesting deaths for our group and anyone else who stands in her way. Although the deaths are interesting, I felt like the film was holding back its potential of being a solid horror entry. Maybe I was just expecting more gore, or more on screen action-- like in one sequence someone cuts their ear,tongue, and stabs themself in the eye. A sequence like that given with the right make up effects--could have been a sweet watch. Instead we see mostly the person's hand and a fair amount of blood. I suppose I was sucked into the hype this movie has been getting. I wanted to like this, but given that it's unoriginal and doesn't offer anything interesting other than the on-screen deaths, I looked towards the potential gore to save itself, but instead we don't even get that. If you were like me expecting a throwback of cheesy 80s gore-flick, then expect to be disappointed as I was. Overall it was unoriginal, but does offer intresting deaths, but sadly, the deaths are the only thing remotely decent about the film. Also do not expect a lot of gore like I did. I recomend checking it out on DVD first but do not expect a lot from it. I would give it a 6 out of 10 if that helps you decide. Ok but not great.

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Kind of a predictable but a fun movie, a bit on the gory side for my tastes. The movie’s plot is pretty basic, unpopular girl who dabbles in witchcraft is bullied and harassed at high school for being “ugly” (in the way 90s and 00s movie women are often “ugly” because of say glasses or their hair being up or wearing non-fashionista clothing), for being weird (eh got her there, not that that makes bullying in anyway ok), or writing an article in the school paper about illegal performance enhancing drugs being used by the football team (yeah that is a big one sure to make her unpopular with a lot of people). Oh and also she, Tamara, the title character, has a crush (and sexual fantasies for) one of her teachers (pretty much the only teacher we ever see in the film). Throw in also a rather undercooked plot about her alcoholic and abusive (?) dad (pretty much always shown with a beer bottle in his hand, because you know, he is alcoholic) and Tamara turns to witchcraft to find a spell to give her the love she wants.And is accidentally killed in a “prank” gone wrong. Tamara, per a spell she had thought had gone wrong, comes back (dressed provocatively in apparently a school with no dress code) to manipulate, torture, and kill everyone who was even a little bit involved in the night she died as with a touch she can make men or women do anything she wants.The pros I liked the cast in general. The cinematography was good, the effects adequate but not stellar. Good pacing and there was genuine concern over whether or not the good characters would survive (spoiler some don’t). The cons it was very gory at times, more than I wanted to see, but to each their own. The punishments meted out by Tamara seemed a bit uneven to me, with in one case basically a bystander (but viewer) of what happened that night given an absolutely horrible fate while others much more active in her death given somewhat less horrid but still fatal punishments. The biggest one for me was that Tamara went from being a completely sympathetic character to outright evil, though the writers set up some good characters who were always good at the beginning to play off of Evil Tamara after she died.

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Die ersten 30Minuten sind etwas langatmig, man lernt die Charaktere kennen, erfährt die hintergründe, etc. Das kann durchaus etwas langweilen, da es in dem Genre nicht mehr viel neues gibt, aber wer die erste halbe Stunde wacker durchhält wird für sein Opfer erstklassig entschädigt. Mehr will ich hier aber nicht spoilern, nur so viel Tamara, die Rache ist dein!

this is a very good horror with a twist. I recommend buying.