Film Review – Tarot (2024)

Directors Spenser Cohen (co-writer of “Moonfall”) and Anna Halberg make their feature-length debut with “Tarot,” following a path of industry introduction traversed by many, going the low-budget horror route to generate a first impression. An adaptation of a 1992 YA novel (titled “Horrorscope”), the picture plays it safe to appeal to a teenage demographic, exploring the escalation of doom that arrives when a pack of college kids elect to mess around with a cursed tarot card deck. It’s slasher cinema working with a dull knife, but there are some technical achievements worth a look in the film, especially when more violent experiences arrive in the story. “Tarot” is very familiar, putting young people in peril, while supernatural forces provide Cohen and Halberg with opportunities to stage shock imagery and arrange sequences of torment. Seasoned genre vets will be well ahead of the endeavor, which is primarily meant to spook younger viewers. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com