Tamara (2006)

Jenna Dewan
Matthew Marsden
Katie Stuart
Chad Faust
Gil Hacohen

Directed by Jeremy Haft

Plot: After a teenage prank on the unpopular girl in school goes horribly wrong, the pranksters decide to cover their tracks and bury the body. However, death won't keep Tamara down and she returns with a new, seductive look and thirst for revenge.

Review: I want to start this review off by saying I am a big horror fan and loved Final Destination. I heard about this film through various web sites saying how this was an original and great horror film. Once I found out that the creator of Final Destination was involved, I thought this had to be good. Well, I can safely say that there isn’t very much good about this film.

The violence in this movie is sadly under used and sometime leads to nothing. There are a couple of cool gore sequences, but fell short. I am not sure why, but there was numerous chances to capitalize on some cool death scenes, but that never really happens. Don’t get me wrong, there are some good scenes, just not as many as there could have been. The thing that kills this movie more than anything is the acting. With the exception for Tamara (Jenna Dewan), every single performance was just horrible. It was good if the film was a low budget independent film, but not for a wide release. Jenna Dewan isn’t that much better, but she has something that I can see improving and making her an up and comer. (Of course, that could have just been the horrible acting around her that made her better.) The film has a nice poster though!

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