Why so much hype?

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Here is my review for the Horror/Thriller movie Tamara that will contains several spoilers throughout!Tamara stars Jenna Dewan as a shy and insecure girl Tamara who is currently going through high school and likes to practice witch craft in her spare time. She is struggling to fit in socially with her classmates of which a group of them continuously taunt and bully her apart from one of the girls. She also has a crush on her tutor Matthew who is pleasant towards her and sees that she has potential with her work at school. Even though he is married to another teacher Alison at the school that does not stop Tamara's attraction towards him.One day a bully of Tamara's arranges a party and invites Tamara over pretending to be her tutor, the party soon turns out to uncover as a prank which is a violating one at Tamara's expense. She is angry and attacks a couple of members of the group and ends up hitting her head on a table and being accidentally killed. The group ponder as to what they will do next and decide top bury her body and not discuss again about the events that just happened.In the class room some time after Tamara has died her reappears supposedly alive and well and to the amazement of her fellow bullies sits besides them like a new woman and more glamorous than she has ever looked before. Tamara has plans to persuade her tutor to fall in love with her and also to have justice for her accidental death and whether she will do this remains to been seen!Tamara did have some clever and creative plot twists for me and i do like how the film was not just a straight forward Horror film or Thriller as not everything that happens will be expected to the average viewer. I found the way in which Tamara dealt with her victims intriguing as she was intelligent with her decision making and did not have to necessarily extract any violence or death on her victims herself, she also had a new found confidence after her character came back to life and was able to turn the tables on her victims and make them see themselves for who they truly were and also play on their own insecurities.I would rate this film 6 out of 10.

Tamara Riley (Jenna Dewan) is the brainy misfit in school who dabbles in witchcraft. She's infatuated with her English teacher and tries to kiss him. He gently lets her down, but she later tries a Love Binding Ritual. She wrote an article on steroid use and angers many of her classmates especially the big jock. Then the kids led by the jock play a cruel joke on her which turns deadly. The kids bury her hoping that everybody will assume that she ran away. Then she wakes up in her own bed and she's the new deadly super vixen seeking vengeance.This horror story is piece together from 'I know what you did...' and other mousy girl turn deadly like Carrie written by Jeffrey Reddick. The concept is relatively sound. It's a small horror directed by Jeremy Haft. Jenna Dewan is unconvincing as the mousy teen. She is all vixen later on without anything more. She needs to be a more impressive actress. Other than a couple of scenes and a passable script, there is nothing worthwhile in this smaller horror.

Opens with witchcraft paraphernalia (from various eras and regions) with someone handling the objects. Segue to a late teen girl (Tamara) seducing a tall handsome teacher (Bill Natolly), only to be discovered. It was a daydream in class, but an important one.The Natolly likes Tamara, but as a good writer. She gets razzed for everything: successes, failures, the books she carries. She writes an article for the school paper in favor of drug testing, and that brings out a lot of resentment, even though the testing was going to happen anyway. The jocks (Shawn and Patrick) and their cheerleader friend Kisha are the worst.The 'cool' kids construct a prank to make Tamara think Natolly wants to meet her for a tryst at a motel, but nothing could be further from the truth. Alison Natolly thinks she is pregnant, and she and Bill are extra pleased with each other.Tamara's father is a demanding jackass who belittles the mother who abandoned them; this makes things worse. Tamara casts a spell to make Natolly love her; she's unaware of the planned prank. She can't complete the bloodletting part of the spell.She gets a badly filtered telephone call from someone representing themselves as Natolly. She promises to meet him; the prank is on. They trick Tamara into stripping while they film from the next motel room. "You look like a cheap ugly whore," says Shawn. "Welcome to reality TV!"The jocks (Shawn and Patrick) get her in a headlock and try to get her to quit thrashing around. Tall, buffed, 200 pound jocks (plural) versus one 90 pound non-athletic girl who reads. Right. They throw her into some furniture resulting in a fatal wound. "It was an accident," and "I'm not throwing my life away because of this loser," show the acceptance of responsibility by the jocks.Accident? This was murder by entitled self-regarding scum. One needs to see that for the revenge part to be the least bit justified.The six of them (Shawn, Patrick, Kisha, Roger, Jesse, Chloe) bury her in the woods. There's a disconnected dream sequence.Tamara revives (logic jump here) and wakes up in her own bed (deleted time there). She goes back to school dressed as a vamp, to the surprise and shock of the crew who attacked her. She sets about using magic to get revenge.Tamara encourages Roger (the AV guy) to finish his failed suicide of years before.Tamara visits Natolly. She tries and fails to seduce him. Next day, Tamara visits Alison Natolly, the school guidance counselor. She starts psychological war against Alison.Tamara casts a spell on her father to make him eat the beer bottles he had been drinking from.There's a big party coming up (rich kid's parents out of town). The perpetrators decide not to let Tamara be a downer for them. Tamara crashes the party and puts a spell on Shawn and Patrick. Using demonic domination, she gets them to have sex. Kisha discovers the two of them in bed. Tamara puts a spell on her as well, to eat uncontrollably.Jesse and Chloe contact Natolly to try to end the madness. They discover Mr. Riley bleeding and about to die. They also discover the spell that Tamara is using. It requires the blood of the user be spilled (done) and allows the user to control others through touch.Patrick and Shawn try to kill Alison, who retaliates with a screwdriver to Patrick's neck. Bill's call to the cops worked.At the hospital, Kisha stabs Jesse fatally and beats up Chloe.Bill and Chloe confront Tamara.The ending sets up a sequel. Please, no. This first installment had no heroes, no actors, no dramatic tension; it does have failures of logic, continuity, and SFX.----Scores----- Cinematography: 7/10 A little grainy.Sound: 8/10 OK, but not great.Acting: 3/10 Twenty-somethings as teenagers were not very believable. Jenna Dewan was particularly poor. Bryan Clark, Gil Hacohen, and Matthew Madsen were ridiculously bad.Screenplay: 6/10 This is a film about teenagers with wobbly to broken moral compasses, and next to no oversight. Police were on camera for about half a minute, and they did not arrest the obvious suspect of a murder. Some of the logic breakage was painful. The hospital is supposed to be a working one, but is next to empty, which working hospitals never are.Special Effects: 3/10 Sad. The glass and blood on Mr. Riley were not credible. Kisha barfs up her guts during multiple heaves; a few seconds later, the same stretch of floor is completely clean. Roger's on camera suicide was poorly done. The 'worms in the arm' part was not believable at all.

A shy and somewhat homely high school girl named "Tamara Riley" (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) writes an article for her school newspaper concerning steroid use among some of the student body and some people affected by this revelation seek their revenge upon her. So they trick her into believing that her English teacher, "Bill Natolly" (Michael Marsden), who she has a crush on, is waiting for her in a hotel room. Once there they videotape her taking her clothes off and getting into bed. When she realizes she's been duped a struggle ensues and she is killed. But what the students who set her up don't realize is that she is a witch and has cast a spell upon herself which brings her back to life. Only this time she is neither shy nor homely. But she is very vengeful. At any rate, in my opinion this movie was surprisingly good. The acting was fine as was the script and the cinematography. One particular fault was the students generally looked older than what you would find in a typical high school. But that often happens with movies of this type so it isn't anything unusual. And while the plot was hardly novel the film did have several attractive women in Katie Stuart ("Chloe"), Melissa Marie Elias ("Keesha") and the aforementioned Jenna Dewan-Tatum. Worth a watch for those who like films of this type.