I'm Embarrassed I Paid for This Trash

I think the ONLY thing that’s upsetting is, if I’m not mistaken, Trevor Henderson (creator of siren head and other cool monsters) did the monster design for the movie and was really happy to finally have his work in a film. Then it turns out to be the biggest dumpster fire. So I feel bad for the guy

5% on rotten tomatoes is diabolical 💀

For anyone curious, the Six of Swords basically means "making a journey to somewhere better after great hardships" not "here are six swords, we are going to stab you with them now."

Fun fact, I saw this in theaters, fell asleep, woke up near the end, and left early.

>Draws The Fool >Hunted by a clown I'm not even a Tarot guy, but I at least have played a moderate amount of Persona to go "that's not even what the fuck that means, why did you take that so literally."

I cackled in the theater when the old lady died. Her card literally said "your going to be killed by a bunch of swords" and literally 2 minutes later, she's killed by a bunch of swords. That's "People die when they're killed" levels of bad writing.

You know shit is bad when Velma has a higher rating

I love how they try to do the prophecy twist bit, but the prophecy is just "you get what you want, but there's a weird guy. Watch out for the weird guy." And the twist is the weird guy kills you. It's like saying "you'll become unfathomably rich but watch out for Jason" and the twist is that Jason from Friday the 13th shows up. That's not a twist!

I like how you went into the movie with the lowest expectations and still came out feeling surprised by how bad it is.

How dare you give a bad review, Charlie. Don't you know you're destroying multi-million dollar studios! 😡

The thing that irks me most is that The Tarot is a very interesting premise for a horror movie if it followed a sort of twisted "Fool's Journey." The Major Arcana of Tarot are meant to represent someone's journey of self discovery, where they start innocent and carefree as The Fool, face a major change in their lives at Death, and eventually claim The World, which represents completeness and closure and someone having a full understanding of themselves. Given how the Major Arcana all have reversed meanings to represent negative aspects of the cards, you could make a sort of reversed Fool's Journey, where the protagonist faces dire circumstances in their life as a result of the reading and eventually gets an unfulfilling ending. There's so much potential with that structure alone yet instead they went with "this card represents the monster that will kill you".

I read the wiki summary, lol @ the plot, every tarot card is just "oh you die" and has no thematic connection to the actual card

The IRS sentenced me to two showings of TAROT for not paying my taxes

Why do so many horror movies have to be such trash?

Also as someone who can read tarot cards, that is not how they work or what they represent the hanging man is about release and closure smh

As someone who reads tarot, there were SO many cooler ways that the cards and divination could have been used in a horror film. Could have been "Group of teens find a tarot deck at summer camp that predict an occult mass murder, and now they have to try and stop it," or "Family moves to a new house and find a tarot deck, whose predictions are the only thing preventing them from being caught by the entity that ALSO haunts the house." But no, they went with "The cards will predict your death in the most literal way possible, at the hands of a supernatural entity based on a Major Arcana." Fucking Tarot Mascot Horror. JFC.

I can't believe the CEO of sex couldn't carry this movie😢

"You really shouldn't talk bad about their movie, it can hurt them financially. Just wait for Tarot 2, they just need a little more time to work on things."

The moment I saw The Fool card be used so incorrectly in the trailer already made me assume this was gonna be ass. A quick word to all writers out there: If you don't know how something works, do some research on it, if you can't even be bothered to do that, DON'T PUT IT IN YOUR STORY. I feel like the general opinion that most studios have is "The consumer is an idiot/doesn't know what they want, so we can get away with being incorrect about a lot of stuff." This is just a bad way of thinking. As an artist, writer, content creator, or ANYTHING else, always assume your audience is as smart as you are and deliver the best work you can, you'll be surprised about what your audience manages to catch.

For any writers or directors out there or people who wanna work in the horror genre the timing for a jumpscare goes 1-2-3. 1. Set up your monster/expectations for the scare 2. Subvert and kill the expectations of a scare for your audience 3. When they are no longer expecting the scare bring it at FULL FORCE.