Taglines: Your fate is in the cards.
Tarot movie storyline. The plot centers on a group of college friends who start dying in ways that are related to their fortunes after having their horoscopes read. Before their time runs out, they have to work together to uncover the mystery.
When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings — never use someone else’s deck – they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death to escape the future foretold in their readings.
Tarot is an American supernatural horror film written and directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg (in their feature film directorial debut) and also co-written by Nicholas Adams, based on a 1992 novel of the same name by Nicholas Adams. The film stars Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Avantika, and Jacob Batalon. Tarot was originally scheduled to be released on June 28, 2024, before being moved up to May 10, 2024.
About the Story
A group of friends – Haley, Grant, Paxton, Paige, Madeline, Lucas, and Elise – rent a mansion in the Catskills for Elise’s birthday. With tension in the group following Haley and Grant’s recent breakup, they distract by having Haley read their horoscopes with a box of strange tarot cards discovered in the basement. Elise gets The High Priestess and that she will “climb the ladder of success”; Lucas gets The Hermit; Madeline The Hanged Man; Paige and Paxton The Magician and The Fool respectively. When Haley reveals that Grant is destroying their relationship himself as he received The Devil, the two argue. Finally, Haley reads her own horoscope and gets the Death card.
The next day, the group returns to campus. Elise is attacked by a monstrous version of The High Priestess, who bludgeons her to death with the ladder leading to the attic. Lucas is attacked by The Hermit in a train station and killed by a speeding train. Each death corresponds to the tarot readings and the group suspects something is amiss with the deck.
They visits Alma Astron, an expert on tarot and the occult that they found online. She identifies the cards as belonging to an astrologer who, in the late 18th century, served a Hungarian Count and would predict the future for him. After a reading that his pregnant wife and child would die in childbirth came true, the grief-stricken Count ordered his men to kill the Astrologer’s daughter. The astrologer, enraged with grief, doomed the Count and his friends to death with her cards, then killed herself and cursed her deck to kill anyone who used it. The cards are responsible for several tarot reading group massacres. Alma urges them to destroy the deck, which is still at the mansion.
While driving there, their car breaks down and they are attacked by The Hanged Man, who kills Madeline. Terrified, Paxton leaves the others and returns to campus, but is stalked by The Fool. Haley, Grant, and Paige return to the mansion, but are unable to burn the cards and request Alma’s help. Alma summons the astrologer’s spirit, but the astrologer does a reading on her and she is killed by the Six of Swords
Tarot (2024)
Directed by: Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg
Starring: Harriet Slater, Jacob Batalon, Avantika, Adain Bradley, Humberly González, Olwen Fouéré, Wolfgang Novogratz, Larsen Thompson, Stasa Nikolic, Suncica Milanovic, James Swanton
Screenplay by: Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg
Production Design by: Felicity Abbott
Cinematography by: Elie Smolkin
Film Editing by: Tom Elkins
Costume Design by: Ivana Vasic
Set Decoration by: Mina Lazarevic, Sonja Nenadic, Malcolm Stone
Art Direction by: Vladimir Ciric, Bruce N. Hill, Dragan Kaplarevic, Mia Medenica
Music by: Joseph Bishara
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for horror violence, terror, bloody images, some strong language and drug content.
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony ScreenGems
Release Date: May 3, 2024
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