Directed by: Anna Helberg and Spenser Cohen
Starring: Avantika Vandanapu, Jacob Batalon, Larsen Thompson
Tarot is a horror film which continues the trend of having almost everything shot in the dark, so it's nearly impossible to see what's happening. The beginning takes place in a mansion where a group of friends are hanging out. Or is it just a nice house? Whatever it is, they proceed to the basement where one of them reads tarot cards predicting everyone else's future. Within hours, the friends are knocked off one by one in grisly, bloody ways.
How and why? Those evil spirits are at it again. Those pesky ghosts and phantoms from the past who just don't want anyone to have a good life. Somehow, the tarot cards disrupted a group of evil folks from beyond the realm who were happy being miserable wherever they were. There isn't anything exciting or scary that goes on in Tarot. My amusement ended shortly after the opening scenes.
Peter Jackson directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy simultaneously, with a complex series of camera setups, scenery, filming locations, actors, and a constantly evolving script. He is one director. Tarot is a 92-minute standalone horror film with two directors. Jackson must bust a gut laughing when he sees that. The two-director phenomenon is relatively new, not counting the Coen Brothers, who of course know how to make classic films. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins won the Oscar for Best Director for West Side Story, but it was hardly a collaboration. And let's not forget Daniels. However, we can forget Tarot and most likely already have.
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