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Tamara (2005)

Genre: Horror

Rating: R

(My) Rating: 7.5/10

⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Can we pretend it’s three and a half stars?]

Gore: Mild-Severe (See warnings for more info)

[Warnings at the bottom]

Summary: As a straight A high school student who dabbles in witchcraft, Tamara is an outcast. One day, her bullies’ cruelty went too far, but she shocks them with her return as she seeks revenge and wants to take what’s hers.

Review [Stop here if you want to avoid any and all spoilers]

If I had to describe this movie in one way it’d be if ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ met ‘Jennifer’s Body’

The movie starts out with this shy, nerdy girl, Tamara, who’s been daydreaming about her teacher, Mr. Notolly. [Just because I don’t want any problems, I’m letting y’all know that I do not support real student/teacher relationships] Now, she wrote this paper on steroid usage in school sports which got her peers to treat her even more cruelly. Things go downhill from the point that they find out about her crush on her teacher.

They play a cruel prank on her and she ends up dying in the process, so they bury her body to avoid trouble with the authorities. As a result, Tamara rose from the dead in search of revenge on those who wronged her and to have Mr. Notolly all to herself.

I find a certain plot point in this movie to be similar to that of ‘Jennifer’s Body’- Tamara died, came back drop-dead gorgeous, and brutally tormented people. Oh how I love my glamorous demonic slasher women.

Overall, I think this movie was a really interesting concept and I loved to see two of my favorite movies basically combined into one. I’m going to tag ‘Jennifer’s Body’ and ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ as I think fans of these movies would really enjoy this one.

There were a few points where the acting was a little off, which always takes off points for me, but the movie still compelled me in spite of that. I really enjoyed Tamara’s story and how tragic it really was in the end. The ending wasn’t a major plot twist but it was a little unexpected, though thee is one point of the movie where the ending is hinted at. I will definitely watch this again.

Warnings: Implied/Brief flashback of drugged rape, severed body parts, glass eating, just a decent amount of mutilation, one-sided student/teacher relationship, one-sided parental incest (It is implied that Tamara’s father is chasing after her but it is not as direct as I feared it would be), vomit, brief self cannibalism, eating disorder is depicted in one scene.

Okay so as I read those warnings through again, this sounds kind of insane but it’s definitely bearable. Although if you’re uncomfortable watching anything that was listed, I recommend you stay away from this.

And as always, please let me know if you have any ideas for some movies I should watch/review! :)