When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, 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.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.2/10
IMDb: 4.8/10
Letterboxd: 2.01/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 17%
Metacritic: 36
TMDB: 6.4/10
Director
Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg
Production
Screen Gems, Alloy Entertainment, Ground Control Entertainment, Capstone Pictures, TSG Entertainment
Cast
Harriet Slater, Wolfgang Novogratz, Adain Bradley, Avantika, Jacob Batalon, Humberly González, Larsen Thompson, Olwen Fouéré, Sunčica Milanović, Alan Wells, Joss Carter, James Swanton, Staša Nikolić, Anna Halberg, Cavin Cornwall, Lucy Ridley, Felix Leech, Vahidin Prelić, Dunja Pavlović, Višnja Obradović
Where to watch
Hulu, fuboTV
Curator Review
Verdict
A glossy, premise-first supernatural horror with a strong hook and some fun visual ideas, but it’s widely regarded as thin, repetitive, and unintentionally funny more often than scary. The cursed-card setup and death-sequence energy may appeal to viewers who enjoy disposable teen horror, but the execution is too flat for most audiences.
Best for
viewers who like slick, low-stakes studio horror
fans of curse-and-kill movies with a Final Destination flavor
people who enjoy campy, so-bad-it’s-fun genre outings
audiences drawn to occult gimmicks and tarot imagery
Skip if
you want genuinely tense or inventive horror
you’re looking for sharp writing or memorable characters
you dislike predictable slasher-style structure
you prefer horror with strong atmosphere over jump-scare mechanics
Overview
Tarot is built on a clean, marketable idea: a cursed deck turns a night of bad decisions into a supernatural body count. The film has polished card imagery and a few effective creature and death-beat concepts, but it rarely develops them into real dread. Instead, it leans on familiar beats and a rushed escalation that makes the whole thing feel more mechanical than menacing.
Worth noting
The response from viewers has been especially harsh, with many calling out the dialogue, logic, and generic character writing. That said, there is a certain disposable-movie appeal here if you enjoy watching a horror premise sprint from setup to payoff without much subtlety. The tarot motif gives it a bit more visual identity than the average studio teen horror, even if the script doesn’t do much with the idea.
Bottom line
As a recommendation, it’s hard to push unless you specifically want lightweight supernatural horror with camp value. For most viewers, there are better curse movies, better ensemble slashers, and better Final Destination-adjacent thrill rides elsewhere.
Top Letterboxd reviews
subi (2.5★) · 4565 likes
yo turn the brightness down i can almost watch the movie
Hailli (1★) · 4360 likes
At one point I just started playing Pokémon go instead
Joe A (1.5★) · 3902 likes
You know how in Scary Movie 3 Samara is like "your love has broken the curse" as a joke? Tarot does that but not as a joke.