Spider-Man star's horror movie Tarot debuts with brutal Rotten Tomatoes rating
Spider-Man star Jacob Batalon's new horror movie Tarot has debuted to a brutal Rotten Tomatoes score.
The movie follows a group of friends who "unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within" Tarot cards they find, and "end up in a race against death to escape the future foretold in their readings".
However, the movie – which comes from writers and directors Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg – has landed a score of just 10% on Rotten Tomatoes following reviews.
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While there has been praise for some of the performances, including Batalon's, many critics have argued that the movie is "forgettable" and clichéd, with diluted scares given its PG-13 rating.
Here's what reviewers have been saying:
Collider
"Tarot is a pretty forgettable horror movie. Dull characters, a basic plot, and very little to say with its themes render it a fairly unmemorable experience. However, what it can and should be commended for is showing how to scare within the constraints of the PG-13 rating."
TheWrap
"Tarot isn’t a good killer doodad movie, and it’s not quite bad enough to be ironically entertaining. It’s a horror movie for people who want to watch a scary movie but are hanging out with someone who gets scared very easily, and so they decide to compromise.
"Not too scary, not too silly, not much of anything really, but not much to complain about either."
Bloody Disgusting
"That the scares are more geared toward a younger audience won’t help [...] Still, Tarot has just enough polish and monster fun to make for a straightforward, inoffensive, and easy foothold into the genre."
Variety
"Set in a world where every door creaks and there isn’t a single well-lit location, Tarot is little more than a clearinghouse of horror clichés."
IGN
"Tarot seems perpetually uncertain about whether it should play its thinly conceived premise for laughs, or actually pursue real scares. It winds up with neither, stumbling around in the dark and turning its small ensemble into a crude means of timekeeping for its surprisingly sluggish 90-minute runtime.
"There’s a clever movie to be made from these modern forms of superstition, but this one seems aimed at teenagers of yesteryear (who wouldn’t have bothered a decade ago, either)."
Tarot is out now in cinemas.
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