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A horror film ‘so bad’ it had furious viewers turning it off just minutes after beginning has arrived on UK streaming services.
Tarot, released in UK cinemas on May 1, is already available to buy and watch from the comfort of your own home via Apple TV+, Prime Video, and the Sky Store.
But horror fans might want to keep a hold of their money as viewers brand the flick ‘awful’ and ‘just plain stupid’.
Directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg, the film is an adaptation of the Nicholas Adams novel Horrorscope and follows a group of college students who, after using a strange Tarot deck, begin to gruesomely die one by one.
The film has some viewers brutally asking how it got a theatre release because it is ‘so bad’, while others said it ‘should be listed as a comedy.’
Kemichels wrote: ‘I highly recommend not watching Tarot…bc it’s like the poorest man’s Final Destination with less cool kills and little to no character development and just run of the mill jump scares that are present in 90% of movies nowadays. ..didn’t expect much tho .’
MSUYouTube said: ‘Watching Tarot, and 3 minutes in, this is terrible. Do horror movie fans just have low standards or something.’
Lon Harris also slammed the film, writing: ‘In Tarot, when anyone uses a cursed Tarot deck, the characters from the cards come to life and kill them in violent, off-screen, violently off-screen ways for no identifiable reason. It would be the dumbest studio horror film this year if Night Swim weren’t also this year.’
MohitVerse summarised: ‘So the real horror in Tarot movie is 90 Mins of people being annoyingly stupid.’
Not everyone despised the film, however, with some applauding its camp elements and the creature design.
Josh Levesque wrote: ‘Went in with low expectations and had some fun with Tarot. Great creature design and some gnarly kills for a PG-13 flick. Dialogue was…rough, but it looked cool. Early ’00s high school horror vibes.’
MsVDavis added: ‘I just watched the Tarot on Netflix and I should have watched this when my kids were home now I’m sitting here rocking back and forth scared af.’
In TAROT, when anyone uses a cursed Tarot deck, the characters from the cards come to life and kill them in violent, off-screen, violently off-screen ways for no identifiable reason. It would be the dumbest studio horror film this year if NIGHT SWIM weren’t also this year. pic.twitter.com/gKPYqMXvY3
— Lon Harris (@Lons) August 3, 2024
I’m watching the movie Tarot and man, lemme tell you, this is some kinda film.
— Ian Fortey and Bigfoot Hanging Out (@IanFortey) August 6, 2024
#Tarot – Thank God didnt watch the film in theaters. Such a disgusting flick. Even the Horror Houses in Malls might give u better experience than watching this irksome flick , where the director would have even gone to the extent of taking ghost for psychiatric Treatment.⦠pic.twitter.com/iBhCCsiLcM
— Star Talkies (@startalkies_ofl) August 3, 2024
That tarot movie is sooooo bad. Inaccurate and horrible writing
— Jamel Tyre (@_JamelTyre) August 7, 2024
watching the tarot horror movie. fun monster design, but not very good. doesnât really capture the sheer, constant terror of being in a relationship with an astrology girl.
— francis (@gorgeousbrains) August 4, 2024
Watching #Tarot and I love it when a scary movie is just a bunch of people being complete idiots until they die as opposed to actually being scary ðð
— Angel Simmons Lincoln (@princess_homey) August 9, 2024
Critics were also left unimpressed by the film, with it scoring a lowly 18% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
Film Feeder’s review reads: ‘Tarot is a creatively bankrupt and passionless horror movie that clearly has studio interference written all over it, from its formulaic and blood-free scares to a surprising cheapness that dilutes any potential it may have otherwise had.’
Empire wrote: ‘Tarot is a personality-less horror that doesn’t overly concern itself with either character or plot. It’s here to deliver one thing and one thing only: cool kills.’
The Horror Queers podcast added: ‘An atrocious screenplay that refuses to play by its own (admittedly loose) rules, making for some of the dumbest characters you’ve ever seen in a film, horror or otherwise.’
Despite being met with overwhelmingly negative reviews, Tarot proved to be a box office success grossing $49.1million (£38.4million) worldwide over a budget of $8m (£6.2m).
Tarot is available buy now in the UK on Prime Video, Apple TV+. and the Sky Store.
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