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Tarot<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screen Gems\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 92 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (horror violence, terror, bloody images, some strong language, drug content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Joseph Bishara\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Elie Smolkin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 3, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Jacob Batalon, Avantika Vandanapu, Larsen Thompson, Humberly Gonzalez, Wolfgang Novogratz, Olwen Fouere. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0A quick trip to streaming is in the cards for the tepid teen horror film Tarot<\/strong>. You don\u2019t have to be an astrologer to make that prediction. If you\u2019ve seen the lame trailer, you know. The PG-13 rating is also a major tip-off. It\u2019s too bad. The genre has had a pretty good run as of late with strong entries like Immaculate, Late Night with the Devil, Sting and Abigail. Tarot<\/strong> brings this winning streak to an end. It\u2019s almost as bad as Night Swim.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Written and directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg, Tarot<\/strong> is basically a weak variation of Final Destination. It starts with a group of friends partying in a creepy mansion they rented for the weekend. They\u2019re as vapid and vaguely defined as you\u2019d expect. Haley (Slater, Pennyworth) and Grant (Bradley, Wrong Turn [the 2021 reboot]) are recent exes. Elise (Thompson, Pearl [NOT the Ti West one!]) and Paige (Vandanapu, Mean Girls) are together. Paxton (Batalon, the Spider-Man movies) is the funny fat friend. Madeline (Gonzalez, Ginny & Georgia) and Lucas (Novogratz, Feel the Beat) are just there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The trouble starts when the gang runs out of booze. While searching the house for a secret stash, they come across a locked room. Naturally, they go in. Inside, there\u2019s a collection of mysterious objects having to do with astrology including a wooden box containing a deck of strange-looking tarot cards. The others convince Haley to read their fortunes. She does it even though she knows using somebody else\u2019s tarot cards is a bad thing. In this case, it\u2019s extra bad. This particular deck is cursed. Haley unknowingly releases something evil into the world. Soon thereafter, her friends start dying in gruesome ways. As their numbers dwindle, they have to find a way to stop it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I tried to like Tarot<\/strong>. That, in and of itself, is a problem. If you have to consciously force yourself to like a movie, that\u2019s not good. In any event, I tried to view it through the prism of teenage Movie Guy circa early 1984 before the PG-13 rating went into effect. In all likelihood, Tarot<\/strong> would have gotten an R rating back then even though the violence isn\u2019t especially graphic. Sadly, the illusion doesn\u2019t last. These clearly aren\u2019t 80s youngsters. At no point do they indulge in the era\u2019s favorite pastime- i.e. SEX! The girls keep their tops on too. Now where\u2019s the fun in that? It didn\u2019t take me long to snap back to reality where I had to endure the rest of Tarot<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0There are a lot of problems with Tarot<\/strong> in addition to the insipid characters. First and foremost, it\u2019s boring.\u00a0 It starts off slightly interesting- to be fair, the premise isn\u2019t terrible- but quickly descends into PG-13 horror tedium with the idiotic young people doing all the exact wrong things. Then there\u2019s the cinematography; the lighting in particular. Most of the time, it\u2019s too dark to see what\u2019s going on, especially during the death scenes. I understand the makers are attempting to create a spooky, eerie atmosphere, but does it have to come at the cost of obscuring the action? There\u2019s a way to generate atmosphere and still make the action visible to the naked eye.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Need I even bother commenting on the acting? Cohen and Halberg don\u2019t give the actors too much to work with. The characters are paper thin at best. I can\u2019t even describe them as likable or unlikable. They\u2019re just lambs lined up for the slaughter. The only one that makes any sort of headway is Batalon and his character is just the comic relief. He doesn\u2019t even seem to fit in with his \u201cfriends\u201d. What\u2019s worse is they\u2019re the only characters in the movie. That is, except for occult expert Alma Astryn played by Irish theater actress Olwen Fouere (Texas Chainsaw Massacre [2022 reboot]). She shows up to provide Haley and what\u2019s left of her friends with some background on the cursed tarot cards. She\u2019s okay, I guess.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Honestly, there is absolutely nothing to recommend about Tarot<\/strong>. It\u2019s a horror movie only a 13YO could like. It is all caps L-A-M-E! It\u2019s not the least bit scary or suspenseful. It\u2019s 100% predictable and not worth the price of even discount admission. It\u2019s as big a fraud as any boardwalk fortune teller.<\/p>\r\n Tarot (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screen Gems\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 92 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (horror violence, terror, bloody images, some strong language, drug content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Joseph Bishara\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Elie Smolkin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 3, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Jacob Batalon, Avantika Vandanapu, Larsen Thompson, Humberly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Tarot-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Tarot-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C918&ssl=1\")
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