Tamara is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Jeremy Haft and starring Jenna Dewan, Matthew Marsden, Chad Faust, Gil Hacohen, and Katie Stuart. It was released in select theatres in the United States by City Lights Pictures, a Manhattan-based production company.

Plot

Tamara Riley is a shy, lonely teenager who lives with her alcoholic and verbally abusive father after her mother has left. She is an excellent student but an outcast among her peers, and is often bullied for her appearance. She is infatuated with Bill Natolly, her handsome English teacher. After a critical article she writes about the school's athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs is published in the school's newspaper, two of the star athletes, Shawn and Patrick, harass her and threaten revenge. Bill comforts her, and she attempts to kiss him, but he politely discourages her affections. Tamara attempts to perform a magical ritual to bind her fate to that of Bill, but when she must spill her own blood, she ceases the ritual.