Tamara is a descent movie, above the b-movie straight to DVD crap unloaded these days. It mostly rises above because of its lead actress and some splashy death sequences that contain great FX.
The story is about the poor unpopular title character who becomes the number one target for humiliation when a newspaper article she wrote attacks the jocks of the school.When the prank to get her back goes wrong, Tamara ends up dead and the teens who did it bury her body in the usual 'I know what you did last summer' fashion. But Tamara is a witch. And the last spell she cast before her death gives her the ability to return from the dead as a sexy vixen out for revenge.
Tamara does tread some usual clichés along the way. But it touches more on films like The Crush and I Know.. than Carrie. Really, the only bad acting comes from the pair of villains in the film who seem to think that by calling Tamara A LOSER over and over again they come off as jerks when they come off as lame brains.
But the real magic in the film comes from the smaller scenes like when Tamara's decomposing or just the flashes when she overpowers her victims with just the touch of her hand. The effects are great. And they even switch up who the survivors are.
My final complaint is that the film steals the thunder of Tamara's sexy transformation by opening the film where she's already sexy in a dream sequence. But the film is still an enjoyable romp.
The story is about the poor unpopular title character who becomes the number one target for humiliation when a newspaper article she wrote attacks the jocks of the school.When the prank to get her back goes wrong, Tamara ends up dead and the teens who did it bury her body in the usual 'I know what you did last summer' fashion. But Tamara is a witch. And the last spell she cast before her death gives her the ability to return from the dead as a sexy vixen out for revenge.
Tamara does tread some usual clichés along the way. But it touches more on films like The Crush and I Know.. than Carrie. Really, the only bad acting comes from the pair of villains in the film who seem to think that by calling Tamara A LOSER over and over again they come off as jerks when they come off as lame brains.
But the real magic in the film comes from the smaller scenes like when Tamara's decomposing or just the flashes when she overpowers her victims with just the touch of her hand. The effects are great. And they even switch up who the survivors are.
My final complaint is that the film steals the thunder of Tamara's sexy transformation by opening the film where she's already sexy in a dream sequence. But the film is still an enjoyable romp.