Tamara (2005 film)

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Tamara
Directed by	Jeremy Haft
Produced by	Michael Almog Morton Davis Jack Fisher Joe Fisher David Sporn
Starring	Jenna Dewan Katie Stuart Chad Faust Bryan Clark Melissa Elias Matthew Marsden
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Tamara is a 2005 horror film.

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

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Body Count
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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 student’s pound on the door. Next, Mr. Natolly and the class are laughing as he tells her, "I can never love you". Which ends in hate

In reality, Tamara is dreaming and sleeping in class. Mousy and not-so-beautiful in real life, her teacher awakens Tamara when Patrick one of the football players blows a spit-wad at her through his straw startling 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, 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 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 wrote 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, as she runs tearfully from his room, embarrassed. Outside the door, Kisha was listening to their conversations eventually telling 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. He leaves momentarily as Tamara looks at a picture of her English teacher stating she will make him love her as she pulls out her arsenal of black magic. 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 thier conversation, Chloe and her boyfriend, Jesse, overhear and they both get invited to the gathering as well.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] 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

[edit] Body Count

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Tamara (1st death) - 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 died from head trauma, her blood spilling all over the carpet. This however, completes Tamara's love spell, ressurrecting her, fueling her with vengeance, lust, and power.

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

Mr. Riley - 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.

Chloe, Jesse, and Kisha track down Mr Natolly and tell him of Tamara's plans to seduce him and kill everyone in her way. Knowing this, 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.

Jesse - 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 he is fatally stabbed. Chloe manages to knock out Kisha, but it is too late and Jesse dies in her arms.

Mr. Natolly and Tamara (final death) - In the climax of the film, on top of the hospital, Mr. Natolly, Allison, Chloe, and Tamara finally confront. Tamara, unable to control Chloe due to her innonence and realizing what a monster Tamara 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.

[edit] Trivia

Tamara was written by the same person who penned the Final Destination series, Jeffrey Reddick.
All of the movie was shot in Quebec.
In the original script, Chloe is a closeted Lesbian.
Tamara is the ONLY female to die in this film; all of her victims are male.
The color red is scarce throughout the film. Its only presence is on Tamara.
Bill and Allison Natolly are unable to conceive due to Allison being barren. One can intepret that Tamara is responsible for this, as she is seen stabbing a pregnant doll with a needle in the opening credits.
Patrick's insult to Tamara early in the film, "trailer-trash whore", was adlibbed by the actor. This was not in the script since writer Jeffrey Reddick himself grew up in a trailer.
This film is often in comparison to Carrie despite almost having nothing in common with it.
The ending of the film opens up for a sequel. In the aftermath of Tamara's defeat, the camera (in Kisha's point-of-view), shows her opening up Tamara's spellbook to a resurrection spell. A sequel is unlikely as it did not do well in theatres and was initially a direct-to-DVD.