TAROT

7 friends from Massachusetts rent an Airbnb in New York to celebrate one of their owns birthday. Once out of alcohol, the group decides to snoop around the mansion in order to find more; however, they come across old relics/obscure objects in the bowels of the basement (one of them happening to be a deck of tarot cards). Luckily for the audiences sake, group member Haley (Harriet Slater) previously taught herself how to read tarot cards and is pressured by the rest of the group into reading each of their futures. But an unwritten rule with tarot is to never use a deck that doesn't belong to you. The group brushes it off as superstition and has their fortunes read anyway. Once back in Massachusetts, group members begin dying in the same manner their fortunes were told. I took a flyer on this as the trailer looked decent enough to give it a shot and the film was mid. A PG-13 rating and plenty of DEI on display, I'm sure the studio and crew were hoping for a younger audience and they just didn't show. While not a lot of marketing was put behind this in order to keep the bottom line low, the film plays just as it is: a fantasy story. No emotional investment from the audience, a couple of jump scares, and while an original story idea, one that couldn't sustain the full 92 minute runtime. 5/10