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Tarot (2024)

Tarot (2024)

5.0

A forgettable feel-good horror flick about tarot cards and curses

Movie

United States of America
English
Horror
2024

TLDR

I would like to order more feel-good horror, please.

What it's about

After using a deck of tarot cards from a mysterious box, a group of college friends inadvertently unleash a deadly curse on each other.

The take

Tarot’s biggest success is managing to resemble not just a sterile horror comedy, but bits of an actual feel-good horror film (in hindsight, of course it's possible with Ned from Spider Man). The tarot-reading cold open gives us lovely friend group vibes and makes astrology/tarot feel accessible, though it does become the vehicle for wordy and blatant foreshadowing. Still, the most striking scenes of the film come in generic scenes of isolation, which is a shame for that initial friendship dynamic. As a result, we’re left with a promising and friendly adventure in horror that ultimately drags and peters out into forgettable nothingness.

What stands out

This movie somehow peaks with the cold open.

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