The Reel Review
When a group of college friends vacationing in the New York’s Catskills Mountains find a box of ancient tarot cards in the basement of their spooky Airbnb, they unwittingly release a deadly demonic entity, in this supernatural horror/thriller loosely based on Nicholas Adams’s 1992 novel Horrorscope.
Wow, what a schlocky, silly story. Spenser Cohen, part of the writing team for 2022’s craptacular sci-fi Moonfall, wrote the screenplay with co-director Anna Halberg, a story that resembles an AI autogenerated, nonsensical word salad – a retread of nearly every other second-rate, trope-filled horror movie, only sloppier, not scary and more stupid. There is no character development, at least until Irish actress Olwen Fouéré makes an appearance halfway into the story to explain the origin of the curse that is now killing them one by one. 🙄
The only brief high points in this terrible film are a couple of fairly clever kills, but even the finale of this lame PG-13 excuse for a horror is ruined with cringey, inappropriate humor. This movie isn’t worth anyone’s hour and a half.
REEL FACTS
• English actress Harriet Slater’s acting credits include the TV series Pennyworth and Belgravia: The Next Chapter, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
• Olsen Fouéré recently starred in The Watchers and All You Need is Death.
• Except for the bridge scene that was filmed in Boston, Tarot was filmed in Belgrade, Serbia.
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