TAMARA isn't a horrible film - it just isn't anything that you haven't already seen from any number of teenage-high-school-witchcraft-revenge films before. One or two decent gore scenes help things a bit - but the glaringly noticeable lack of any sort of nudity from any of the smokin' female leads is unforgivable...
The story is one you've all seen/heard before - Tamara is the uber-geek ugly-duckling sexually-abused witchcraft-dabbling high-school student who is in love with her English teacher and is picked on relentlessly by the "cool" kids. When Tamara writes a revealing article for the school paper exposing steroid use amongst the jock athletes, the "cool kids" decide to play a prank on her. Of course this turns out all wrong, Tamara dies, comes back to life through some witchcrafty nonsense and exacts revenge on those that scorned her...
Pretty cookie-cutter stuff if you ask me, and unfortunately, this one doesn't bring anything to the table that THE CRAFT, or CARRIE, or any other similar film didn't already beat to death thoroughly. There are a few decent gore scenes including a cool hypnotically controlled self-mutilation, and a decent blood-vomiting scene, other than that - nothing too notable. I was aware that there wasn't any nekkidness in this one as I was tipped off ahead of time - but the lack of skin in this one is still borderline criminal...what a waste of some primo sluts. On the plus-side - the acting isn't horrible and at least the film isn't chock-full of the typical cringe-worthy one-liners that you see in most of these films. Overall - I can't say it did much for me, but it's worth a rent maybe...6/10
The story is one you've all seen/heard before - Tamara is the uber-geek ugly-duckling sexually-abused witchcraft-dabbling high-school student who is in love with her English teacher and is picked on relentlessly by the "cool" kids. When Tamara writes a revealing article for the school paper exposing steroid use amongst the jock athletes, the "cool kids" decide to play a prank on her. Of course this turns out all wrong, Tamara dies, comes back to life through some witchcrafty nonsense and exacts revenge on those that scorned her...
Pretty cookie-cutter stuff if you ask me, and unfortunately, this one doesn't bring anything to the table that THE CRAFT, or CARRIE, or any other similar film didn't already beat to death thoroughly. There are a few decent gore scenes including a cool hypnotically controlled self-mutilation, and a decent blood-vomiting scene, other than that - nothing too notable. I was aware that there wasn't any nekkidness in this one as I was tipped off ahead of time - but the lack of skin in this one is still borderline criminal...what a waste of some primo sluts. On the plus-side - the acting isn't horrible and at least the film isn't chock-full of the typical cringe-worthy one-liners that you see in most of these films. Overall - I can't say it did much for me, but it's worth a rent maybe...6/10