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The latest addition to this year’s supernatural horror releases, Tarot follows a familiar storyline of the genre: a bunch of teenagers somehow end up being cursed and consequently set out to find a way to revoke it as the body count goes up. There is a satisfaction that the audience finds in familiarity as the expected chills and thrills are rolled out. The problem with Tarot, however, is its overdependence on the horror film tropes. Based on Nicholas Adams’ 1992 novel Horrorscope, the story unfolds when a group of college friends stumble upon ancient tarot cards kept in the forbidden part of a secluded cabin. As they naively draw their fortunes, the lines between prediction and grim reality blur. The predictions made with the help of these cards by Harriet Slater’s character, unleashes an evil spirit of an astrologer and sets off a chain of deadly consequences. The friends, now fighting for survival, must find a way to render the curse powerless.