Tarot

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.

This one's not playing with a full deck and cribs too often from better horror franchises.

Cohen and Halberg manage an admirable faith in their own movie -- delivering consistently delightful kills in a soapy story that doesn't seem insecure until the very end.

It’s trying to be everything at once, and ends up feeling flimsy, empty, and again, very, very frustrating.

Flashes of competence are not enough to distract from a sense of crushing pointlessness, more watery slop served up lukewarm for undemanding Friday night horror fans, who really ought to be demanding so much more.

There’s an honesty to this kind of pop filmmaking that’s easy to admire, even if it doesn’t necessarily make the actual movie any better.

If you have seen 2009's Final Destination, you have the basic premise of Tarot.

Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg try to shake up the old familiar horror curse formula with Tarot by introducing a slightly different method of how the characters get cursed & killed, but sadly it's not nearly enough originality to make an impact.

"Final Destination" with tarot cards

The archetypical characters in this by-the-numbers flick are thinner than the tarot cards. [Full Review in Spanish]