Written And Directed by Spenser Cohen And Anna Halberg
Grant: "Guys, we did it. We changed fate."
Haley: "Fuck fate."
Catching up with some recent horror in between LGBT themed reviews for the month and I had to watch this one. After all, I wanted to see what was in the cards surrounding the movie.
We start off with a group of teenagers, comprising of broken up couple Haley (Harriet Slater) and Grant (Adain Bradley) along with their friends Paxton (Jacob Batalon), Paige (Avantika Vandanapu), Lucas (Wolfgang Novagratz), Madeline (Humberly Gonzalez) and Elise (Larsen Thompson) drink in the woods and then take the festivities into a rented house.
Once inside and with the lack of alcohol, the gang turn their amusement to a tarot deck. Haley being the only one to actually be able to read the deck decided to give all of her friends a reading. The friends reactions went from curiosity to amusement.
However, the results were more on the disastrous side of things as each friend began to die with the card they were associated. Elise got bludgeoned to death by The High Priestess while Lucas ended up being splattered by a train after an encounter with The Hermit. Then we had Paige and Madeline ended up being killed by The Magician and The Hanged Man respectively before the remaining survivors tried to save themselves.
The best part of the movie was definitely the inclusion of occult expert Alma (Olwen Fouéré) who quickly brought the remaining kids up to speed about a Hungarian Count who got on the wrong side of an astrologer. The same astrologer who cursed the cards that Haley had used to read her friends fate. Too bad Alma (Six of Swords) also suffered as a result of trying to help them kids.
As the movie hurtled towards it's conclusion, Paxton (The Fool) disappeared for ages while Grant (The Tower/Devil) was nearly dragged to hell before Haley (Death) managed to reason with and ultimately outsmart the astrologer. Of course, the way this movie ended, there's definitely a sequel in mind.
- Not to be confused with another movie of the same name from 2015 and also, this one was loosely based on a 1992 book called Horrorscope by Nicholas Adams.
- The tarot deck was created specifically for this movie and was based on a 15th century Italian deck.
- Standout music: Daniel Knox I Saw You and Christian Hale's Somewhere Down The Road.
- Chronology: I'm assuming it's 2024. It was set during Elise's birthday.
I know the reviews for Tarot haven't been great but I actually thought it was decent enough. Good enough scares, a good look into tarot itself and okay enough protagonists. It's not a must see but it's diverting enough.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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