Tamara(2005)
2005 · Jeremy Haft · 98 min
Tamara, an unattractive girl who is picked on by her peers, returns after her death as a sexy seductress to enact revenge.
Horror · Thriller
5.3296 votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How scary is Tamara?
There's a trashy, over-the-top energy to this one, more like a guilty-pleasure revenge flick than something that will actually creep you out. The pace moves like a teen thriller, building through humiliation and payback rather than lingering in dread, with the scares coming from gross-out kill scenes instead of jump scares or slow tension. The threat is magic-based rather than anything real, and the whole thing leans into sleazy, campy fun rather than heavy or upsetting territory. It's best for people who want a so-bad-it's-fun watch with some blood and dark humor, not a serious scare.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Tamara rates psychological 2/5, visceral 3/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 2 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 30 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 30 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
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A slow-building revenge story that starts as teen drama and steadily escalates into a nasty, intense back half.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4.
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