Tamara – Tochter des Teufels (2005)

Tamara – Tochter des Teufels: Directed by Jeremy Haft. With Jenna Dewan, Katie Stuart, Chad Faust, Bryan Clark. Tamara, an unattractive girl, who is picked on by her peers returns after her death as a sexy seductress to exact revenge.

“Donu0026#39;t you just hate it when this happens? Now that you finally found yourself a gorgeous looking high school sweetheart, she turns out to be a murderous witch, capable of making you eat glass beer bottles with the touch of her hand! Damn! But Tamara has some very good reasons to be this cranky. The popular crowd at school tricked her into believing that the handsome and beloved English teacher has finally fallen for her, too, and set up a whole fake meeting in a sleazy hotel room. Thatu0026#39;s a pretty good reason to get rancorous already but, on top of that, they also accidentally killed her, buried her body in the woods and made a pact to keep it a secret. Thanks to several puberty years of casting spells, Tamara rises from the dead like a gorgeous babe with exclusively vengeance on her mind. First and foremost, I think itu0026#39;s hilarious how these movies portray the so-called u0026quot;unattractiveu0026quot; girl. Tamara was never ugly to begin with, so simply combing her hair and wearing a push-up bra already turns her into a teenage sex bomb! u0026quot;Tamarau0026quot; isnu0026#39;t a very good horror film, mainly because it lacks originality and surprises. A big list of horror movies, which featured similar plots before, promptly comes to mind: Thereu0026#39;s u0026quot;Carrieu0026quot; (of course), but also u0026quot;The Craftu0026quot;, u0026quot;I know What You Did Last Summeru0026quot; and even a bit of u0026quot;I Spit On Your Graveu0026quot;. Thereu0026#39;s few to no tension in the script, although I do have to admit that the film actually was a lot gorier than I expected it to be. The playful deaths Tamara has in mind for her enemies are quite ingenious and close to being pure splatter. One poor sucker, for example, commits suicide live on school-TV whereas a girl pukes up gallons of blood. The acting performances are far above average, especially the females are good, and Jenna Dewan is definitely a promising talent to keep an eye on. Overall, this surely isnu0026#39;t a memorable new horror movie, but it never bores you and itu0026#39;s at least as good (if not better) than most big-budgeted Hollywood productions that receive theater-releases.”