Tamara
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Feb 13, 2006
NEW YORK -- There's nothing like coming back from the dead to increase a teen girl's foxiness quotient.
Such is the dubious premise of "Tamara," a low-budget "Carrie" knockoff in which its titular heroine gets her revenge on the vicious peers who tormented her in a variety of gruesome ways, perhaps the most horrific of which is inducing two strapping jocks to suddenly get busy between the sheets.
Written by "Final Destination" screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick, the film has its dubious pleasures, not the least of which is the extended sight of nubile lead actress Jenna Dewan in a bustier, high heels and killer miniskirt.
It takes a while for her to appear that way, however, since in the first part of the film the character is depicted as a mousy teen with a crush on her sensitive, married English teacher (Matthew Marsden) and a propensity for dabbling in witchcraft.
Said hobby proves fortuitous when Tamara is accidentally buried alive during a prank by several of her abusive fellow students, only to emerge from the purported dead as a killer babe with a thirst for vengeance. In true "Final Destination" fashion, her victims are dispatched in a variety of fairly creative ways, such as when her abusive stepfather suddenly finds himself chomping on the beer bottle from which he's been swigging.
After a fairly promising beginning, the film, directed in haphazard fashion by Jeremy Haft, soon becomes a routine gorefest. Unlikely to make a significant commercial dent in a marketplace saturated with similar but more ambitious and well realized efforts, it should move briskly on video store shelves thanks to the inevitable provocative cover art depicting its sexy protagonist.
Such is the dubious premise of "Tamara," a low-budget "Carrie" knockoff in which its titular heroine gets her revenge on the vicious peers who tormented her in a variety of gruesome ways, perhaps the most horrific of which is inducing two strapping jocks to suddenly get busy between the sheets.
Written by "Final Destination" screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick, the film has its dubious pleasures, not the least of which is the extended sight of nubile lead actress Jenna Dewan in a bustier, high heels and killer miniskirt.
It takes a while for her to appear that way, however, since in the first part of the film the character is depicted as a mousy teen with a crush on her sensitive, married English teacher (Matthew Marsden) and a propensity for dabbling in witchcraft.
Said hobby proves fortuitous when Tamara is accidentally buried alive during a prank by several of her abusive fellow students, only to emerge from the purported dead as a killer babe with a thirst for vengeance. In true "Final Destination" fashion, her victims are dispatched in a variety of fairly creative ways, such as when her abusive stepfather suddenly finds himself chomping on the beer bottle from which he's been swigging.
After a fairly promising beginning, the film, directed in haphazard fashion by Jeremy Haft, soon becomes a routine gorefest. Unlikely to make a significant commercial dent in a marketplace saturated with similar but more ambitious and well realized efforts, it should move briskly on video store shelves thanks to the inevitable provocative cover art depicting its sexy protagonist.
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