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High school is hell for people like Jenna Dewan’s put-upon character in the 2006 horror movie Tamara. The pathetic namesake doesn’t have any friends to call her own, and she spends most of her time daydreaming about her hunky teacher when she’s not playing with the dark arts. Now, Tamara thinks her life is finally starting to improve when her crush comes a-calling, but as things tend to go in these kinds of movies, the sudden attention isn’t real. No, someone is out to humiliate her. And like other wronged women in the horror genre, Tamara won’t rest until she gets her revenge.

Before Tamara Riley takes the stage as a violent vixen from beyond the grave, Dewan plays a smart yet frequently bullied girl at Hafton High School. The performance is convincing, quickly endearing her to viewers. Director Jeremy Haft’s movie then goes down...

TORONTO -- Canadian producers Insight Prods. and Original Pictures said Wednesday they have sold their teen drama Falcon Beach to ABC Family. The U.S. broadcaster said the Canadian drama about coming-of-age teens holidaying in a lakeside resort would launch its Sizzlin' Summer programming strand in 2006. After the original two-hour pilot for Falcon Beach aired on the Global Television Network in Canada, the Canadian broadcaster ordered 13 one-hour episodes of the teen drama that stars Steven Byers, Jennifer Kydd, Devon Weigel, Ephraim Ellis, Eric Johnson and Melissa Elias. Production on the first season of Falcon Beach is set for this summer just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba. Producer credits on Falcon Beach go To Kim Todd, John Murray and Shannon Farr. Murray and Farr created the series.