A 30 Minute Rant About ‘Tarot’ So You Don’t Have to Watch it 

Hey Guys - This is Stark’s gaming channel. Commenting from over here. I apologize if I made a few mistakes with the plot recap. My sentiment about the overall structure and presentation of the script remain; it’s a funny bad horror film that will be forgotten within a few months. That’s ok, it happens. And I’ll continue to get better and better at writing my scripts and getting details right especially when it comes to videos being made after a first-time theater viewing. Cheers and thanks for watching!

So it’s just zodiac final destination

After she said " he's an earth sign that's why he was found dead on the ground" I WAS JUST DONE. LMAO. I LAUGHED SO BAD.

This could have been good if they made it like a test, cause every tarot card has a light/shadow side. So if you past the test you live but if you don't and you choose the shadow then the card gets you.

I was expecting an anthology film with each tarot card being a different meaning to each main characters death. Then I realize I thought of a better story in my mind than the actual movie.

"Horoscope readings to die for" would've been a better news paper title than "You die today" as a horoscope reading in a news paper.

"death of the ginger birthday girl" is such a good obnoxiously long band name/song title

can we also discuss the fact that these filmmakers just saw a widely used cultural practice and decided- "oh shit! witches do this! witches = equal scary!"

The "Magician" card is a Mage(mystic/witch), not a stageshow trickster. So basically the people who made this movie "Tarot" don't know about Tarot at all. And they just made a clueless mockery of it.

The 6 of swords is not a negative card and has nothing to do with getting stabbed by swords

Didn’t “Cabin in the Woods” lampoon this type of cookie-cutter horror filmmaking over a decade ago? 🤔

Too bad Trevor Henderson had to be involved in a crappy movie. He's a great creature artist.

i knew it was gonna be absolute nonsense when the premise was "oh my god, the death card" as if it isn't a super chill card like no one there even cares for the basic research i'm

I do tarot reading as a cool little party trick. Do i believe they have some truth behind the meanings yes, but most of it is interpreted by the person whos getting a reading. Not once have my cards tried to kill me...

I wish the main blonde girl was actually the killer simply bc i think it would be funky and she could have planted the cards in the house or just done a ranfom reading, and decides based off the cards how shell kill everybody. (And then the films lack of research wouldnt be such a detriment bc it would be a part of her character that she didnt do the proper research, and not a major issue with the film lol)

everyone getting their tarotussy ate

I work at a movie theater and always invite my brother to go to stuff like this. We went on a monday afternoon. There were like 7 other people there. We were making fun of the whole thing from way in the back, laughing at the stupidity the entire time. Our favorite was the one reading where she mentioned a bridge coming true, and one of the characters literally stating something along the lines of "..B-b-but... we're on a bridge right now!".

the fact that jacob and avantika - the two actors in this movie that has the most street cred - got the best death scenes tells me that the writers can actually write, they just don't want to put any effort in unless they need to

Avantika really deserves to be in better movies because the stuff Shes been in this year has not been that good and in my opinion, she seems pretty good at both acting and singing

It actually wouldn't be unusual for a twenty-something woman to be a self-taught reader. I was. A trip to Barnes and Noble will do it. Most of the more in-depth books to have information about astrological and numerological correspondences. I have three books right now that would be enought to "buff her up" And saying "oooh, I taught myslef " wouldn't be an unexpected brag. So I wouldn't find that bit all that cheesy. However, it is considered very very very impolite to handle someone elses's cards without their permission, let alone read with them. Eespecially not a deck that someone broke into a locked room and grabbed. Some readers won't even buy used decks because they might have someone else's negative energy. (When I saw Stigmata, I wasn't bothered by the "haunted rosary" although the Church will assure you stigmata can't be passed on that way" The thing that pissed me off what that this woman was going through all this pain and suffering over a text that you can pick up an English translation of at... Barnes and Noble.) So, drunk or not, strike one for cheese.

I was surprised when he mentioned that a girl knowing about horoscopes and tarot readings was such a character buff I knew so many girls in high school who loved crystals, star signs, and tarot readings.

So in no way does this movie actually use the mythology of Tarot? Oh and its spoopy season, we will never let that down.

the stupidest part is tarot is not primarily used in conjunction with astrology for a reading, so no one would be using tarot like that to give a general reading

As you were coming to the end of your review, I thought that the guy who showed up at the end would turn out to be the Jester. The shape-shifting monster who would provide a dark, twist ending. "Fuck fate? No, Fate fucks you!"

I have an idea for an alternate take if you wanted to redo the concept, but keep the tarot card theming and premise, and I came up with while making food. Main Character (or MC for short) gets a Tarot set as a birthday gift. They learn how to do readings and for the most part, the readings are normal/nothing acursed or paranormal. Eventually a family member falls ill and they try to do a reading to find out if they'll live. The reading informs MC that their loved one will pass away soon. Desperate, MC starts trying to find a way to prevent this. They seem to find a spell/ritual, but either it wasn't intended to work at all or it was meant for something else, but MC changes to fit their needs and performs it. An entity is summoned as a consequence of fucking around and finding out. MC tries to get out of paying the price, but to amplify the stakes, the spell or ritual fails to keep their loved one alive and now they are being hunted down by the entity. I'm thinking it's kinda simular to Ged and his shadow from Earthsea. MC manages to get away, but the entity is always looking for them, which sends them on the run, unable to truly make friends. Time passes to present day. MC is at a college and gets invited by birthday girl to join them for a celebration in the woods. MC is hesitant (due to their prior trauma and the entity), but agrees. At this point, MC has learned to use their Tarot deck as a means to check how close the entity is at any given time, but it's a two-way mirror. If the MC looks out for the entity, it manages to catch her sent and comes looking. Same events play out at the cabin. Group pressures MC to do a reading, MC is wary, but does it. Entity is able to find them due to MC's meddling. With the MC trying to get away again, this time with the group of friends, the entity starts killing the friends to get the MC. It isn't because they angered it too, they're just in the way. Two possible endings can happen here, depending on the tone you're looking for. Ending 1: *Good ending* MC sees 1 or 2 of the friends die, coming to the realization it will continue to kill everyone if she doesn't confront it. MC decides to take an L for the group and let herself die for her original crimes to save everyone else. The survivors remember MC as very brave person and it ends on their gravestone. Ending 2: *Bad ending* MC continues to run away, like a coward, until the whole group dies. Now, with the blood debt paid, the entity has no reason to continue chasing MC. MC is the sole survivor and questions in the end if she did the right thing. I'm a bloody fanfic writer and I can pull a better Tarot-based horror movie concept out of my ass than a damn AI or a group of Hollywood writers! It's embarrassing how sloppy and lazy these horror movies are doing these days. Love the video! Can't wait to see more!

tarot cards have different meanings based on whether they’re upside down or right side up so clearly research wasn’t done lol. this had potential to be great, just in the wrong hands

scary movie 6 : the tarot deck

The most interesting takeaway I got from this video is that I never realized how macabre it was to play the game "Hangman" in elementary school 'til just now. Thanks for saving me 14 bucks, I guess, lol.

What? You're telling me you don't have a hidden booze room leading to a haunted basement??? Come on! 😅

My idea for how they could have made this more interesting: 1. Have the first two cards drawn represent a past event (Card 1) that the victim-to-be was a part of that they feel responsible for, which in turns influences how they are in the present (Card 2), and then the Death (Card 3) has a rememant of said event present or takes place at the site. For instance: C1: Ned has been given time and again to give aid, yet every time he backs out (He's seen another student, Peter, getting bullied, but doesnt help because hes afraid of getting roped into the bullies' hit list, or he'd be found out as the stitch because teachers fsr have a knack of dropping names even when told NOT to, and thus Peter ends up dying, either by his own hand or the bullying going too far) C2: This therefore pushes Ned to become overly helpful to others, to the point of mildly annoying or exasperating others, as a self-coping mechanism to mentally ease that guilt; or, to tie it to the Jester, he becomes a class clown to try and distract the bullies from their doings, oftentimes getting caught by the teachers and labeled a "bad influence" and "troublemaker" because of it C3: Either the Jester has Peter's face/voice, it attacks Ned at the site/inside an illusionary recreation of the place Peter lost his life, or even have Peter appear in the background

I knew this movie wasn't for me when I heard the card descriptions they had in the trailers. They weren't _technically_ wrong because the cards are up for interpretation, but some of their descriptions seemed way off from the traditional meaning. Or a meaning you would only get with other different cards clarifying, not the card alone. They showed the fool and said "this card means that you feel boxed in" and I was like, "The fool, really? The reckless abandon card, that shows a man in the vast expanse of nature about to waltz off a cliff? That's the boxed in card and not the hanged man?"

Man I've had NOTHING to do with tarot cards (besides a friend had a deck once) and even I know they're not at all literal. The writers couldn't even do a single google search lol

i went to see this with my friends last week, and we thought the entire beginning was an ad

i liked the designs of the monsters, that’s about it though

Wait, you mean to tell me we have a movie where the Tarot cards have their figures come to the real world as twisted parodies of themselves to cause chaos? Persona 3 if it was shiiiiiit

My favorite moment in this movie was when the characters were looking up stuff about the curse, and Ned Leeds, while looking at the computer, asks what it says.

Imo i kinda now wanna see something like yu-gi-oh horror movie where a guy had such a freakout due to being outsmarted he died and now possesses his deck.

Based on your description of the main character’s experience with her mom, it sounds like the film is alluding to the accuracy of tarot cards rather than the character’s premonition. That would at least explain why you got no further allusions to her abilities thereafter.

Unfortunately I've already watched this atrocity disguised as a movie.

It’s unfortunate because I follow the guy who did at least some of the creature designs for the movie and his art is so good, it’s a shame they couldn’t have been in a better movie…

Not me over here just wanting a copy of the deck and not actually giving a shit about this garbage Hollywood shat out. 😂😂😂

My family grew up watching horror movies, my mom taking me and my older sister to all the big horror releases when they came out and having a decent collection of VHS and DVDs at home. We had nothing to do on a rainy Sunday so we went to go see it and we laughed the entire time along with the rest of the audience. If it wasn’t for Jacob Batalon I would have left early lmfao.

me and my mom watched it In theaters ^_^ the cashiers told us it was " the worst movie they've ever watched " so i guess we were warned .

The only reason I was excited for it was because Trevor Henderson was working on monster designs for ittt noooo 😭

8:30 speaking as a guy who was in a friend group with my ex during and after our relationship I can tell you it happens😂

It’s like they took the tarot system from phasmophobia and piled on more bs

I heard this movie was bad, and a thing I've started doing this year is, when I get too stuck in my head, I go to the theater and watch the worst horror movie on the docket. Naturally, I watched this for that reason…but HOLY HECK it was bad, even for my budding tradition, it blew the other bad horror movies I've watched out of the water. I honestly hate how many times I mentally corrected you because I remembered the plot so well, I curse my stellar memory. Big point: LITERALLY the point of the scene where they throw the cards in the fire is to show that the cards CAN'T be burned, even if you were drunk I don't understand you getting that mixed up. Also, the Tarot Master scene where she takes on the cards is way worse than you made it out to be - she said she'd been planning this for years, and yet she didn't seem to have a plan, she just invoked the spirit and it immediately read her horoscope and killed her and she accomplished literally nothing. But I won't continue to correct you because this movie is not worth the energy. Your main points are still one hundred percent valid.

Im a manager at Regal, we have a contract with Pepsi right now that forces us to play at least 20 to 30 minutes of previews before our movies start. It's a 10 year contract we can't break so I just tell all of our customers to come 10 minutes late to their showing.

So basically....I should just watch it for the Jester scene?

What are you talking about, I loved that movie, I loved it when the high priestess tarot monster just said “the arcana is the means by which all is revealed!” Then tarot’d all over the place (I’m kidding I never saw the film)

I’m going to watch this. I do enjoy bad movies

They’re putting a bad name on tarot :(

I was expecting like a bad quality video but man this is so much better keep it up man!

Idk if this is interesting to you but Trevor Henderson is responsible for some (if not all, I am not sure) of the concept art behind the monsters. That is all I know though, so I can’t say if he was also involved in shooting the scenes or just the monster designs.

Can we also appreciate that throughout as their friends are dying the surviving characters have ZERO emotional reaction to their friends deaths.

Laziest death scene? I point you in the direction of In The Name Of The King 3. Dolph Lundgren manages to lay on the ground in the most casual way possible while bad guys literally run and fall on his sword. Me and my homies almost stopped Bad Movie Night because we couldn't stop laughing over how bad that scene was.

Taro is based on the book horoscope, now i have not read or warch the movie but i do wonder if the book is any better

It sounds like the makers of the Gallows went into cryosleep and woke up just to slog this one out

I was thoroughly disappointed. It was a dud, and the ending was so underwhelming 😢

32:55 They are cursed so I don’t think burning them away would get rid of them

As someone who does tarrot and is so tired of the myth that tarrot cards are evil, I refused to watch this movie. It's like people making a horror movie out of the Bible

Why is this in my recommendation right after I watched it ??? 🤣 Like i just walked out of the theatre 😞

You can’t just bring up deepfake Tom Cruise character and NOT show a pic 😭

I remember I had to check my tickets to make sure I was in the right auditorium when it started, and then I looked up the cast list just to make double sure. The tone was just so off right away.

Holy shit. They made thanksgiving, one of the best horror films from last year. I’m looking at you Sony Pictures

Light roast… if that’s your closest I don’t trust what you call boring… lol 💜💜

Damnnn, I just realised his eyes are really scary

i enjoyed the movie but yeah, it was objectively not great XD i think its quite silly to watch with friends :]

when did ben shapiro start doing movie reviews?

I thought this movie was an adaptation of a movie in my country the Philippines of the same name(not written in ai btw it came out many years ago.) but this is...... is just bad. the plot of the film is basically about this girl who is the MC who has the ability to read tarot cards and predict the future but terrible things start to happen n stuff.

I have a friend who's been into tarot for a few years and when I saw the trailer for this movie, I started dying laughing, because clearly the movie makers don't actually know how tarot works.

People who make horror movies based on tarot are the true terror.

It would’ve been good if they made the movie longer to focus on accurate history and storyline

Let's be honest, in real life they would have looked at the cards and ignored them to get more alcool lol

I was so annoyed that they didn't just have the characters get the corresponding card to their astro sign. It would have made way more sense and spookier that she'd draw each person's main card that way. The monsters looked way better in the trailer and I felt tricked!

First vid of yours I’ve seen, loved it and like your setup and style, the not looking at us the entire time but punctuated eye contact really effective. Look forward to more.

I hate how she says “fuck fate” as if they won or something, girl like 6 of your friends died 😂😂

AmaIng review I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers!! Most in depth review I have seen of this movie

This movie was a bad viewing experience for 2 reasons: 1.) The story was laughably bad, so to the point that it felt like the filmmakers were just making fun of astrology. 2.) There was a group of about 10 teenagers in my theatre. They spent the whole runtime of the movie being as obnoxious as they possibly could. Everything from teasing each other, very loudly clearing their throats, fake laughing, etc. One of them even pulled out their phone & turned on the flashlight (I assume to take a video for social media). One lady yelled up at them to shut up & that only made it worse.

XD EVERY video I've watched about this movie has just said how Jacob Batalon is the only good thing about the movie. LOL

I have that regal movie pass they said previews are 30 mins long and it kills me with having adhd and not being able to focus long but for the movie I feel so many of the characters could have been saved if they just sat still and didn't run from everything cause there was 4 people who ran or left and died . I think the cards got sold at auction if it was evidence at the police department

“He’s not a bad guy , he’s a bad actor” 💀

I agree that the lady's death was the vaguest of all. She read the cartas to herself so that with her "power" she could talk to the spirit that cursed the cards. The death of the girl, of probable Indian ethnicity, was not overlooked, I would say that they realized that she separated from the group after not seeing her behind them. But if I were them I would have also continued running, because my life is in danger and crying now was not the right time. I don't think it would have been right for them to have turned around and gone looking for her, especially when they know they are the next to die.

Biggest surprise: Main character is a blonde woman?! In 2024?!

The Ironman plushie perfectly positioned in the blank space under the Mic does something for me😂😂

but i dont think those "bad movies" die becuase all those communitys that specificaly watch the WOST movies on purpose.

The monster designs were really good, they were made by an Instagram artist named Trevor Henderson. His art is incredible, but the movie is bad. I honestly feel bad for Trevor, hes such a good artist, but his name is attached to such a bad movie.

Confused why some actors in Tarot are actually decent at their job but put into this garbage movie.

Why neuter a scary movie with a PG-13 rating? It’s just lame these studios are turning out weak sauce, horror movies with rating to get tweens and young teens in seats instead of going all out

it would’ve been cooler if the jester and magician played a role in each of their deaths like potentially orchestrating situations to test each character and if they failed obviously they’d die but if they passed they’d live because of this whoever survived could’ve conducted a plan to get the magician and jester back into the box while banishing the vengeful spirit

They look for alcohol around the house as a last resort. They already said that the stores would be closed at that time and home delivery orders would not be fulfilled either. The first boy does not die because he sticks his head out, but rather he is pushed by the spirit out of the train and a train coincidentally passed by. The birthday girl goes up the stairs in search of whoever is making the joke, but after receiving the scare they push her to the ground, leaving her semi-unconscious and probably with some injuries...That's when the priestess takes the opportunity to drag her under the stairs.

I think I would actually like a movie about the Astrologer better than the one we got. This, combined with the Fool and Magician scenes, just felt like someone had some high school concepts in their notebook and decided to throw them into the movie for a cashgrab. The art direction felt juvenile but the effects looked good at least, and you can tell there are artists with a vision working on this. But it was just so much wasted potential.

Ik its late and someone already said this but the scene about the cards burning youre talking about, the cards actually dont burn, thats the whole reason they look for the tarotmaster character in the 1st place

Incorrect. The evil girl in the cards reads the tarot master’s future against their will. Which makes the movie even dumber

I actually found it super interesting and I'm glad it wasn't that scary. I've never heard of using your zodiac to do a tarot reading and I feel like the movie could have been a little better if someone bothered to actually research Tarot card readings beyond the first page of Google.

I saw this movie the first day it came out. I should’ve known it was going to be bad when me and my date were the only ones in the theater. By the end of movie, I was cringing sm and I was so bored that I could not stop thinking about the other things I could’ve done with the money I spent on our tickets. Bowling, food, anything but this boring movie🙃

If only this plays like someone / some cults tried to build a connection to higher entity through collecting souls imbibed within the Tarot to form a mystical tree of life and connect to the higher entity. The ritualistic to imbibe the soul must correlate with the meaning of the Arcana. E.g imbibing The Fool with the soul of someone free spirited and daredevils who died because of high curiosity. The Tarot is almost done, but it needs 6 more souls. This is where it could be revealed that one of the teenagers is a cult member that tried to complete the rituals and invite the groups as they fulfilled the condition for the last 6 cards.

Jeez from the beginning it seems like they tried to set up this movie to look like "Talk To Me". The darkness and the noises that come from flipping from one character to the next. However I can it's a very cheap knockoff. Nothing can be "Talk to Me", the way it's shot and the whole plot keeps us freaked out from start to finish.

I thought I was tripping with pre movie previews they were so long like 40ish mins

keep going man, you are great content and the boom is on the horizon