Director :Spenser Cohen , Anna Halberg
Cast : Avantika , Jacob Bathalon, Harriet Slater , Adain Bradley , Humberly González , Olwen Fouéré , Larsen Thompson , Wolfgang Novogratz
Overview : When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards.
Story line :The film introduces the audience to a group of seven college friends celebrating a birthday of the friend somewhere in a rented mansion. in a remote area .There while exploring the house they stumble upon an ancient box with zodiac design containing hand-painted tarot cards in the basement , The birthday girl is Elise (Larsen Thompson), who later insists Haley (Harriet Slater) read everyone’s horoscope Haley reluctantly fulfills her wish as she begins unveiling thirteen cards on the floor in a circle and explains to each of them at a time. They leave the mansion and go back to their respective hostels but the tarot readings show their actions one by one the friends start to meet their respective dooms as predicted by the tarot card reading. This leads to a series of Final Destination-style deaths , what is the reason behind all these deaths , and whether they can escape from this trap forms the crux of the movie.
Technical Review :The Directors introduction of the hand-painted characters from the tarot cards such as Death, The Magician, The High Priestess and The Fool that come to life to haunt them are intriguing ,
But the director does not know what to do with these horror characters. They just appear in the dark and terrorize each of their ill-fated human victims using the same old predictable jump scares. The problem is lacking creativity that such a horror movie like Tarot desperately needs to make them work.
Tarot does attempt to dig deeper beyond the who’s-going-to-die-next scenario. There’s a backstory halfway through the movie revolving around the origin of these tarot cards and it is revealed that those tarot cards were cursed but then again, it’s all perfunctorily told instead of finding ways to make it more interesting.
Performances : Harriet Slater, best known for her role in TV’s Pennyworth, delivers a decent but unspectacular lead role as Haley while the rest of the characters are pretty much what you would expect in a horror movie .
Final Words : The concept is good but execution has many flaws. But it can be watched once.
Ratings : 2.5*/5*
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