Friends unwittingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within a cursed deck of tarot cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate, racing against death to escape the future foretold in their readings.
Tarot is directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg which is their directorial debut.
Tarot is one of those horror films that is often left out of the conversation when it comes to people online or in general talking about their most anticipated horror films of the year and it's very easy to see why. The movie gives you exactly what the trailer showed a very watered down Final Destination film that forgets a lot of what made those movies so fun. What's sad is this concept could have easily worked, the idea of cursed Tarot cards and combining with Final Destination rules sounds great on paper. Unfortunately the script happened and the characters here are the very definition of paper thin.
I will be fair and say that there are some slight positives, I do think the creature designs from the tarot cards are pretty neat and have a decent amount of detail on them. I also do think out of the cast Avantika and Jacob Batalon were somewhat decent, that isn't exactly the highest compliment when you look at the acting in this movie. But at the very least they tried to keep it afloat, unfortunately due to the script their characters are really not given a whole lot to do. Olwen Fouéré is also not bad here but she has absolutely no reason to be here outside of advancing the plot.
That's where the main problem comes in…the writing, look I'm not going to say Final Destination had outstanding character writing, but at the very least the characters were fun and memorable. All you get here with Tarot is cliched character personalities along with their personalities being tied with the tarot card that are associated with their zodiac sign, that's basically their entire character not once is anything expanded upon their characters not even the final girl Haley who is played by Harriet Slater gets any meaningful character development. Heck I would argue she is one of the least interesting out of all of them, due to just how bland and uninspired her character really is.
I'm honestly not sure what else to really say here, Tarot is a terrible studio horror movie that by the end of this year nobody is going to remember it. It might be fine enough for younger viewers who want to get into horror (even then I wouldn't recommend it) but as for everyone else this is not something worth looking into.
Tarot is available on all VOD platforms.
2/10 F
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