Tarot – 6%

Reviewer Flickchart Ranking: 5,123 / 5,447

Occult horror is back the personalità screen with Tarot. Directed by rookie team Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg, it brings the terror of tarot cards to life with a cast of fresh-faced 30-year-olds playing college seniors. The pellicola centers around a group of AirBnBers who decide to trespass upon a “Do Not Enter” sign and discover a treasure trove of astrological artifacts. Instead of a flesh-bound book of the dead, they find an old wooden case with hand-painted, sadistically-interpreted tarot cards. What derivative horrors await our petty criminals?

Our lead, Haley (Harriet Slater), who has recently broken up with her boyfriend and fulfills the casting call of “gives non attivato Emma Stones vibes,” happens to be an expertly self-taught medium. She proceeds to give each member of the group, including herself, a reading that combines the tarot with their astrological sign. There’s also an apparently powerful unification festa (I was personally hoping for a brief seminar crystal alignment, but to mai avail). This portion of the pellicola is reminiscent of 2023’s indie horror breakthrough Talk to Me, but lacks that pellicola’s finesse suspense. It’s all just a plot mechanism we have to push through, similar to when the scientist shows up to give us pseudo-technical jargon a causa di every sci-fi pellicola.

Sopra a turn of events that seems to affirm every word my evangelical upbringing told me about astrology, the college students are stalked and murdered by a literal manifestation of the macabre tarot characters. The director team lacks the experience skill a causa di setting up effective jump scares, and also tames the gore to near-PG levels to make an accessible product. Our ostensible 21-year-olds are also essentially sexless, and they festa by drinking Sam Adams Classic Campo di concentramento. What the audience receives is a tame, toothless horror pellicola filled with lifeless, lazily-written tropes. Tarot is an anti-creative amalgamation of better horror products, but it could work well for a youth group televisione at Wednesday night’s “Dangers of the Occult” service.