Tarot’s Trailer Is Right here to Remind You to Persist with Sweet Land, Children

Beware any sinister party game pilfered from a dusty hiding place by smirking teenagers who couldn’t be much less involved with following “rules” that might protect them from supernatural hurt. Many a horror movie has launched with that premise—and Tarot, which dropped its first trailer at present, is the newest.

Jacob Batalon (Ned in Marvel’s Spider-Man motion pictures) is the largest title within the forged, and the movie—written and directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg—was beforehand often called Horrorscope however might be extra precisely, if much less titillatingly, titled Tarot. That trailer undoubtedly units the scene with none confusion, however right here’s the plot description anyway: “When a gaggle of associates recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings—by no means use another person’s deck—they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped inside the cursed playing cards. One after the other, they arrive head to head with destiny and find yourself in a race towards loss of life to flee the long run foretold of their readings.”

Tarot joins current movies like Speak to Me, Ouija, Ouija: Origin of Evil, and Hulu Into the Darkish episode Uncanny Annie—and cult classics like Witchboard (which has a remake on the way)—in spotlighting precisely why bored youths ought to avoid any type of otherworldly dabbling, particularly when it’s tied into some sort of game-playing situation. You by no means know what you may awaken; simply look what occurred when Regan began spirit-boarding with Captain Howdy in The Exorcist. We’re nonetheless ready for recent updates on that Magic 8 Ball film—which is indeed in the works—however within the meantime, Tarot arrives in Could.

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