TAROT (2024)

Name: TAROT (2024)
Item: TAROT (2024)
Author: Review

"Ensnared by Cursed Tarot Cards"

Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

TAROT is a supernatural horror movie. Led by Haley, an amateur astrologist, seven college students celebrate a birthday one weekend by renting a mansion in the Catskills. On their last night, Haley reads their horoscopes using a strange deck of Tarot cards they found in the basement. Turning over the cards assigns a Tarot character to each student. Back at campus the next night, supernatural versions of the Tarot characters stalk and try to kill the students. A Tarot expert urges the students to destroy the Tarot cards. Of course, that proves to be easier said than done.

TAROT has a few fun character flourishes. Otherwise, however, TAROT is a rather pedestrian occult horror flick. Also, the movie has a strong occult worldview promoting astrology and Tarot cards. This evil content is mitigated by the students trying to fight the curse of the Tarot cards In the end, though, they must use the Tarot cards to kill the conjured spirit of the 18th Century astrologer who cursed the cards. TAROT also has some extreme violence and lots of foul language.

Content:

(OO, B, C, LLL, VVV, A, DD, MM):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong occult worldview where college students spend the weekend at an abandoned mansion and the lead female character uses Tarot cards to read their horoscopes, but the cards are cursed, and Tarot characters start stalking the students and trying to kill them in brutal ways, mitigated by some moral, redemptive elements where the students fight back and risk their lives to save one another, but in the end they must use the Tarot cards to kill the conjured spirit of the 18th Century astrologer who cursed the cards;

Foul Language:

21 obscenities (including one “f” word and many “s” words) and 16 light profanities;

Violence:

Some very strong and strong violence with some blood includes a flashback showing a woman committing suicide by slashing her throat in silhouette, falling spring loaded attic ladder hits a woman multiple times until she dies, woman gets sawed in half during a stage show, a speeding subway car hits a man, woman is hanged, a character is impaled by several swords, character bleeds from nose and eyes during a ritual, supernatural beings based on Tarot cards stalk people for using a cursed deck of Taro cards, and wind and debris flail a woman’s skin;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity (one woman gets out of a tub but nothing is shown);

Alcohol Use:

Brief alcohol use and implied use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No tobacco smoking but there’s implied marijuana vaping; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

A mention of fate, people break into a room, and a flashback story features acts of revenge, murder and suicide.

More Detail:

TAROT is a supernatural horror movie about seven college students who become targets of supernatural characters when one of the students gives her friends astrology readings using a cursed deck of Tarot cards. TAROT has a few fun character flourishes but otherwise is a mediocre horror movie with a strong occult worldview overall, some extreme violence and lots of foul language, mitigated slightly by some moral, redemptive elements, though the characters eventually use the Tarot deck to turn the tables on the malevolent spirit who created the curse.

Led by Haley, the amateur astrologer, the seven college friends rent a mansion in the Catskills for a birthday party. Things turn awkward on their last night because of Haley’s recent breakup with one of the three guys. So, they try to lighten the mood by having Haley read their horoscopes using a strange deck of Tarot cards they found in the basement.

Haley gives each one of them a different Tarot card character, such as The Magician, The Fool and a Devil. Haley gets the Death card.

Back at campus the next night, supernatural versions of the Tarot characters stalk and try to kill the students. Two students are killed. So, the remaining five visit a female Tarot card expert they found online.

The expert says the Tarot cards belonged to an astrologer who in 1978 gave a horoscope reading for a Hungarian count. Her prediction that his wife and child would die in childbirth came true. So, he had his men kill the woman’s own daughter. In revenge, before committing suicide, she used her Tarot cards to kill the count and his friends. She also cursed the Tarot card deck.

Since then, several group murders have occurred involving the cards. The Tarot card expert was the sole survivor of the most recent murder spree. She urges the students to destroy the Tarot cards.

Of course, that proves to be easier said than done.

TAROT has a few fun character flourishes. For instance, Jacob Batalon of the new SPIDER-MAN movies delivers an endearing comic turn as the group’s nerdy member. Otherwise, however, TAROT is a rather pedestrian occult horror flick.

As such, the movie has a strong occult worldview promoting astrology and Tarot cards. The filmmakers mitigate this problem by showing the dangers of fooling around with astrology and Tarot cards. Also, the students try to fight the curse of the Tarot cards. In doing so, they risk their lives to save their surviving friends. They don’t always succeed, however. Also, in the end, they use the Tarot cards to defeat the curse. TAROT also has some extreme violence and many obscenities and light profanities. So, the movie is excessive and unacceptable.

The Bible condemns such occult practices as astrology and divination. In that light, it’s interesting to note that the Golden Calf worshipped by the Hebrews in the Book of Exodus is related, to one degree or another, to the Zodiac sign of Taurus the Bull. The Ancient Egyptians worshipped bulls long before Abraham and his great grandson, Joseph, encountered them.