Parents' Guide to

Tarot

By Jeffrey M. Anderson, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 14+

Generic, un-scary, but violent cursed-cards horror tale.

Movie PG-13 2024 92 minutes
Tarot Movie Poster: A scary-looking monster arm reaches down and takes the "Death" card from a circle of Tarot cards

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Based on 3 parent reviews

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it was not that scary

it was not that scary

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Our review:
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An ineffective, shameless copy of tons of other "group of friends makes a mistake and gets stalked by a killer one by one" movies, this horror tale offers nothing new, not even a decent homage. Walking vaguely in the footsteps of Evil Dead, Final Destination, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream, Wrong Turn, and others, Tarot first makes the mistake of introducing a group of friends who don't seem to have much in common—and, given that they're largely underdeveloped and paper thin, there's not much to care about. Then they make a series of dumb choices. First, no one notices that they've finished all their drinks. Then they decide to break into a room that's clearly marked "Keep Out." Then they play with the clearly sinister cards. Honestly, it's hard to blame the malevolent spirit behind the cards for taking umbrage.

We also get the typical "seeking help" sequence and the discovery of a quirky shut-in who's been obsessed with the killing for years but is eventually unable to help. She's played here by Olwen Fouéré, who speaks, for some reason, like a TV newscaster, saying things like "Mexico City. 1961. Six people dead." There's also lots of arguing among the friends, many cheap jump scares that aren't scary, and lots of twitching monsters that charge at the camera. There are far cleverer movies—like The Cabin in the Woods, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, and Bodies Bodies Bodies—that poke fun at clueless films like this. "This is definitely a bad idea," one character says at a certain point in Tarot. Too bad the filmmakers didn't listen.

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