Tamara (2005 film)

infobox film
name=Tamara


caption=Promotional movie poster for the film
director=Jeremy Haft| writer=Jeffrey Reddick
starring=Jenna Dewan
Katie Stuart
Chad Faust
Bryan Clark
Melissa Elias
Matthew Marsden
producer=Michael Almog
Morton Davis
Jack Fisher
Joe Fisher
David Sporn
imdb_id =0401815
website=http://www.tamaramovie.com/

"Tamara" is a 2005 horror film, with resemblances to the Stephen King novel Carrie.

It was not a commercial success, released only in select theatres. It was released by City Lights Pictures, a Manhattan-based production company.

Plot

The movie begins with a deep dark mystical ceremony where a mysterious apprentice witch is using a skull, candles, cards, a sacred book, daggers, a voodoo doll, a pentagram necklace, a goblet and other ritualistic items. The scene quickly changes to Hafton high school where the camera runs up the legs of Tamara Riley who cat walks down the hallway. She delivers a book she has written to her handsome English teacher Mr. Bill Natolly, stating it’s the first edition. Mr. Natolly takes the book, strokes her hair, passionately kissing her, pushing her back onto his desk, clearing it off the books like dust on a table top. This hot-blooded scene comes to an end with Tamara yelling "stop, stop", as students pound on the door. All of a sudden, he looks at her with disgust. As she is wondering what is so wrong, she looks at herself in the mirror and realizes she's not so "hot" and stunning anymore. Next, Mr. Natolly and the class are laughing as he tells her, "I can never love you".

In reality, Tamara is dreaming and sleeping in class. Mousy and not-so-beautiful in real life, Tamara is woken up from her fantasy by her teacher. When Patrick, one of the football players, blows a spit-wad at her through his straw, it startles her to the point where she drops her books. She is then taunted and teased until Mr. Natolly intervenes and reprimands them. When the bell rings at the end of class Mr. Natolly congratulates Tamara for writing an expose on high school steroid abuse, which is the headline article in the school newspaper. Her classmates are angry about her article and start taunting her and calling her names. Kisha, a popular girl, confronts her in the girl’s locker room. Chloe stands up to Kisha and tells her to leave Tamara alone, reminding Tamara that every one of those girls teasing her now is going to be fat and divorced by the age of thirty.

Some of the football players have been benched for the season for refusing to allow the coach to test them for steroids. Now in full pursuit of Tamara, the boys on the football team chase her to Mr. Natolly's room. Tamara is frightened and sad, telling Mr. Natolly that no one has ever liked her, and now that she's written the expose, it's worse. Mr. Natolly attempts to cheer her up, however, Tamara responds by attempting to kiss her married teacher. Mr. Natolly backs up avoiding her kiss, and she runs tearfully from his room, embarrassed. Outside the door, Kisha was listening to their conversations, and eventually tells her boyfriend Shawn, a football player.

After a brutal day at school Tamara returns home where her father owns and operates Riley’s VCR repair shop. Sipping a beer standing in his underwear and open robe he yells and curses, demanding that Tamara clean the storage closet. Tamara goes to her room. Her father laughs at her witchcraft and says she is just like her no-good mother. When he leaves, Tamara looks at a picture of her English teacher and states that she will make him love her as she pulls out her arsenal of black magic. She stops before finishing the spell, however. Meanwhile, Mr. Natolly informs his wife and school counselor Alison that Tamara has a crush on him, she reveals to him that she is pregnant and it's time to start working on another room in the house. Meanwhile, Shawn, Patrick and Kisha plan a vicious prank for Tamara. They call her on the phone pretending to be Mr. Natolly and arrange a meet in a motel room. Needing a cable hook-up to execute the joke, Shawn persuades Roger (techno-geek) to help them by inviting him to Patrick's party. In the midst of their conversation, Chloe and her boyfriend, Jesse, overhear and they both get invited to the gathering as well. However, Chloe, Jesse, and Roger do not know about the plan for Tamara.

When Shawn's prank goes awry, Tamara charges into a fight with Chloe and Jesse, thinking they had planned it. Patrick tried to break up the struggle, but she bites his wrist and Patrick throws her off of him in anger. Tamara hits her head on the edge of the room's coffee table and dies from head trauma, her blood spilling all over the carpet. Chloe tries to resuscitate her but to no avail. Chloe wishes to go to the police. But the rest disagree. They decide not to "throw away their life for this loser" and, with the reluctant agreement of Chloe, bury her body in the forest. This however, completes Tamara's love spell, resurrecting her, fueling her with vengeance, lust, and power.

The next day, she walks into the classroom with a new, seductive look. Everyone is shocked, but who is even more shocked is the people who were involved with her death.

Because Roger made no attempt to help Tamara or come forward with her death, Tamara makes Roger cut off his own ear, tongue, and finally gouge his own eye. This fits with his past history of cutting himself.

Realizing that her father fantazises about being with her and that his alcoholism drove her mother away, Tamara makes him "finish the bottle", which literally, he eats the beer bottle, thus choking to death on the actual glass.

At a party that night, Tamara puts her spell on Patrick and Shawn, and forces them to have anal sex with each other, with Patrick being symbolically 'raped' by Shawn, as he has done to girls he had drugged in the past.

Chloe, Jesse, and Kisha track down Mr. Natolly and tell him of Tamara's plans to seduce him and kill everyone in her way. Horrified, Mr. Natolly immediately wants to protect his wife Allison from Tamara. Kisha (under Tamara's spell) calls Tamara and tells them what they know, and Tamara retaliates by sending Shawn and Patrick to the Natolly's home to kill Allison. Fortunately, Allison is able to fend for herself and is forced to kill Patrick and Shawn.

Taking a very shaken Allison to the hospital, Chloe and Jesse wait in the lounge while Kisha is being treated as well. Kisha, now completely under Tamara's influence, tries to kill Chloe and Jesse and lures them into the hospital's kitchen. To protect Chloe, Jesse takes Kisha on his own and is fatally stabbed. Chloe manages to knock out Kisha, but it is too late and Jesse dies in her arms.

In the climax of the film, on top of the hospital, Mr. Natolly, Allison, Chloe, and Tamara finally confront each other. Tamara, unable to control Chloe due to her innocence, and realizing what a monster herself has become, breaks down, slowly changing back into a corpse. Before finally fading away, Tamara asserts her will to be with Mr. Natolly and he appears to surrender to the inevitable. Mr. Natolly holds Tamara close and is about to kiss her, but actually grabs her hard and throws them both off the hospital building. He dies immediately and Tamara, no longer connected to him, reverts permanently into a decaying corpse. Chloe and Allison are seen talking on a hospital bed, then the camera begins to show a first person view of someone leaving the hospital and seeing the corpses of Tamara and Bill being investigated by the police. The person then leads to the jeep and grabs Tamara's spell book with bandaged fingers, revealing the person to be Kisha. This is possibly hinting Tamara's return.

Cast

*Tamara Riley - Jenna Dewan
*Chloe Bowman - Katie Stuart
*Jesse - Chad Faust
*Shawn - Bryan Clark
*Kisha - Melissa Elias
*Patrick - Gil Hacohen
*Bill Natolly - Matthew Marsden
*Allison Natolly - Claudette Mink
*Roger - Marc Devigne
*Mr. Riley - Chris Sigurdson

External links

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