Ooof, okay, "Tamara" (2005) is basically the perfect example as a contrast to the thin line that I think "I Spit On Your Grave" stays on the "done well" side of for #FemRevengeFlicks .

Before I dive into what goes wrong here, for me, I'm going to do a quick plot description.

Tamara is a nerdy girl in high school who gets bullied by some popular kids and has a crush on one of her teachers. The bullies decide to punish her by convincing her that the teacher wants to be with her and lure her to a hotel room, where they record video of her getting undressed before revealing the "prank." A fight ensues and she dies accidentally during the struggle. Rather than go to the authorities, the bullies decide to bury her body in the woods and cover it up.

Well, little did they know, she practiced real witchcraft and the "love" spell she cast to bind her and her teacher worked. She comes back to life and shows up at school on Monday, much to their shock. What follows basically plays like a slasher movie, with her taking off the bullies one by one in revenge.

It finally ends when the teacher finds out that the spell will keep her alive as long as he is alive and they are not together. To protect his wife, he tricks Tamara and jumps off a building with her, killing them both and ending the spell.

TLDR: Basically, "The Craft" + "I Know What you Did Last Summer" + "Fatal Attraction" = "Tamara"

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I do want to say up front: If you do not like this movie or hate it, that's okay. If you are a survivor and never want to see it or despise it, that makes a heck of a lot of sense. That said, I want to note that there are survivors who have talked about why this movie is important to them, like BJ Colangelo (https://www.fangoria.com/problematic-films-in-defense-of-i-spit-on-your-grave/).

I also want to note: there are some shitfuckers out there who like this movie and others for exactly the wrong reasons. There are vile people out there who get off on seeing violence done to women. I wouldn't mind if those awful creeps met a real life Jennifer Hills.

I also share some criticisms many do, especially of the original uncut version. I think it does spend too much time on depicting some of rape scenes, in a way that I think enables some of the worst ways of viewing the film. Not to mention, there's very complicated ethics to depicting sexual assault on film, and it's easy to stray over the line onto the wrong side of it.

All that said, here's why I actually like this movie and what it says to me.

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