5% on rotten tomatoes is diabolical 💀

For anyone curious, the Six of Swords basically means "making a journey to somewhere better after great hardships" not "here are six swords, we are going to stab you with them now."

The thing that irks me most is that The Tarot is a very interesting premise for a horror movie if it followed a sort of twisted "Fool's Journey." The Major Arcana of Tarot are meant to represent someone's journey of self discovery, where they start innocent and carefree as The Fool, face a major change in their lives at Death, and eventually claim The World, which represents completeness and closure and someone having a full understanding of themselves. Given how the Major Arcana all have reversed meanings to represent negative aspects of the cards, you could make a sort of reversed Fool's Journey, where the protagonist faces dire circumstances in their life as a result of the reading and eventually gets an unfulfilling ending. There's so much potential with that structure alone yet instead they went with "this card represents the monster that will kill you".

tarot cards are literally just for finding a different perspective to a situation lmao, they're not fortune cookies.

I think the ONLY thing that’s upsetting is, if I’m not mistaken, Trevor Henderson (creator of siren head and other cool monsters) did the monster design for the movie and was really happy to finally have his work in a film. Then it turns out to be the biggest dumpster fire. So I feel bad for the guy

I cackled in the theater when the old lady died. Her card literally said "your going to be killed by a bunch of swords" and literally 2 minutes later, she's killed by a bunch of swords. That's "People die when they're killed" levels of bad writing.

As someone who reads tarot, there were SO many cooler ways that the cards and divination could have been used in a horror film. Could have been "Group of teens find a tarot deck at summer camp that predict an occult mass murder, and now they have to try and stop it," or "Family moves to a new house and find a tarot deck, whose predictions are the only thing preventing them from being caught by the entity that ALSO haunts the house." But no, they went with "The cards will predict your death in the most literal way possible, at the hands of a supernatural entity based on a Major Arcana." Fucking Tarot Mascot Horror. JFC.

You know shit is bad when Velma has a higher rating

Fun fact, I saw this in theaters, fell asleep, woke up near the end, and left early.

>Draws The Fool >Hunted by a clown I'm not even a Tarot guy, but I at least have played a moderate amount of Persona to go "that's not even what the fuck that means, why did you take that so literally."

Apparently the monster designs and costumes were actually done by Trevor Henderson. Talk about absolutely wasted potential.

The moment I saw The Fool card be used so incorrectly in the trailer already made me assume this was gonna be ass. A quick word to all writers out there: If you don't know how something works, do some research on it, if you can't even be bothered to do that, DON'T PUT IT IN YOUR STORY. I feel like the general opinion that most studios have is "The consumer is an idiot/doesn't know what they want, so we can get away with being incorrect about a lot of stuff." This is just a bad way of thinking. As an artist, writer, content creator, or ANYTHING else, always assume your audience is as smart as you are and deliver the best work you can, you'll be surprised about what your audience manages to catch.

I like how you went into the movie with the lowest expectations and still came out feeling surprised by how bad it is.

The IRS sentenced me to two showings of TAROT for not paying my taxes

For any writers or directors out there or people who wanna work in the horror genre the timing for a jumpscare goes 1-2-3. 1. Set up your monster/expectations for the scare 2. Subvert and kill the expectations of a scare for your audience 3. When they are no longer expecting the scare bring it at FULL FORCE.

I love the part where the villain said "It's Tarot Time!"

I love how they try to do the prophecy twist bit, but the prophecy is just "you get what you want, but there's a weird guy. Watch out for the weird guy." And the twist is the weird guy kills you. It's like saying "you'll become unfathomably rich but watch out for Jason" and the twist is that Jason from Friday the 13th shows up. That's not a twist!

What's so disappointing is that most horror movies nowadays can be solved by either breaking/burning cursed items or simply WALKING AWAY

This is movie is the finest example of- 'I had zero expectations and I still managed to get disappointed'

My co-worker was gushing about how great this movie was. And she was telling my friend, who loves movies all together, to watch it. I hope it's not too late to save him.

"You really shouldn't talk bad about their movie, it can hurt them financially. Just wait for Tarot 2, they just need a little more time to work on things."

How dare you give a bad review, Charlie. Don't you know you're destroying multi-million dollar studios! 😡

Reminds me of paranormal activity where the few people there and my group of friends were loudly shit talking the movie the entire time. But the cherry on top was a dude standing up as the lights came on yelling YO THAT MOVIE WAS SOME BALLS. Just that phrase made that entire experience worth it

As someone who does tarot THEY DIDNT EVEN GET THE MEANINGS CORRECT LIKE ???

5% is a good number for unemployment but terrible for a rating of a supposed “blockbuster”.

Not even the CEO of sex could save this film

"I just had a Jimmy Nuetron brain blast" I'm stealing that.

This doesn’t even sound like Tarot Cards, more of those weird star things TikTok does. Which is a shame since a movie based on Tarot cards might be sick, like your card determines the way you die or if you live The Hanged Man is a hanging, The Tower is falling, The Lovers is either you were killed by your lover or spared, The Chariot is run over, etc etc

"Disasterpiece" was right there.

A friend asked me if I wanted to go see Tarot with them. My immediate response was, did I do something wrong?

The fact that tarot was so trash is honestly motivation for me and anyone who wants to go into film. Like if the goobers behind tarot and moonfall could make those movies reality and get away with it then what is stopping you or me from going out there and making actually works of art/masterpieces.

Whats even funnier is that the Death card in tarot doesnt actually represent Death. Its a cycle. the end of something to start anew.

"Written and Directed by one of the three writers for moonfall" That sounded like hearing a dark souls bossfight in the distance.

You know its bad when charlie feels embarrassed

When I first saw anything about this movie, I immediately went “Ugh, that’s not how tarot is at all… Why can’t movies like this do even the slightest amount of research?” Then, I learned that Trevor Henderson came up with the creature design and saw a longer trailer that actually made me feel slightly tempted to actually see the movie. I was hoping that it would be a story about some sort of curse or a warped/evil deck of cards and that the creature design + cool kills would carry the whole movie so it sucks that it turned out so shitty. I really hope that Trevor Henderson ends up doing designs for more things in the future, though.

Honestly, this was like an anti-movie. This is like the movie you put on when you’re having boring sex and you need some noise to break the awkwardness. This is the movie you put on when you have all your friends over to play card games that you all glance at while awaiting your turn but never truly watch for more than 30 seconds.

Why do so many horror movies have to be such trash?

I use my wife as a horror movie prediction. Showed the trailer to my wife: My Wife: ...thats not even how tarot cards work/are. *dumb* Me: yep its gonna flop And behold, 5% on rotten tomatoes!

The "death" card in tarot doesn't even represent death, it represents chance

When you mentioned the whole "written and directed by 1 of 3 writers of Moonfall" made me think of "2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie." 😂

I read the wiki summary, lol @ the plot, every tarot card is just "oh you die" and has no thematic connection to the actual card

I can't believe the CEO of sex couldn't carry this movie😢

He really ranked this a penguinz0/10

"I know none of you had any interest in it" I never even heard of this movie until now

Also as someone who can read tarot cards, that is not how they work or what they represent the hanging man is about release and closure smh

Some guy robbed me the other night. Dude came up to me and held up a ticket for Tarot and my heart sank. I've never been scared for my life like that

just for fun one time i looked into what some different tarot cards actually meant and im pretty sure that what just about all these cards ended up doing in the movie was completely unrelated to what they supposedly mean irl ex (assuming im remembering correctly): the fool card has nothing to do with being "bullheaded and making rash decisions," its mostly about being inexperienced. death also has almost nothing to do with actual death, it's mostly about ego death and the recreation of your personality. The swords also have nothing to do with actual swords, they represent intellect or emotions.

4:45 type shit

As someone who casually reads tarot for fun, this is hilarious. Both the usage of tarots in the movie and the way Charlie calls the readings "horoscopes" 😭

Genuinely wtf was the point of shoving Tarot Cards into the movie? I swear all of the monsters barely resembled the things they were supposed to represent, there was no symbolism, and most people don’t even know about just the Major Arcana, much less the rest of the Tarot deck. It made no sense?

I loved the scene with the fool and after we found out the guy survived me and my cousin talked about how our head canon is that the fool was messing with him for 5 hours straight

3:05 "unironically, matt and I's acting in the green screen merch shoots is better than anything you'll find in tarot" I mean, you can't expect these actors to compete with the star of hunger games.

The noise Charlie made at 12:43 reminded me of when SpongeBob had bad breath and said to the guy at the movie theater “excuse me sir, I hope my horrible ugliness won’t be a distraction to you” and the guy said “not at all, boy - HUEEHHUEEEH”

It is Tarot-ble

"I expected nothing and yet I'm still disappointed." - Charlie

WOOO LETS GOOO 15 MILLION CONGRATULATION!

Glad i never even heard of it

Cant believe charlie missed the one opportunity to say "Disasterpiece" and instead said "Masterpiece diaster" 💀😭

16:50 - Makes sense since his roommate is obviously Peter Parker

16:34 Bro's roommate is Spider-Man 💀

If Sony had been smart about it, they would have released Tarot before Madame Web so that at least critics could say Madame Web isn't the worst Sony movie this year. Also, this feels like something even Blumhouse passed over. Either that or they weren't asked first.

The annoying thing is that with a competent writer and good director this idea could actually be kind of cool. Like the premise sounds interesting enough if done right, unfortunately it was not done right

I got to see the og alien in theaters the other day. Such good vibes.

0:57 A "Disaster Piece" if you will

We’re in a time where horror movies have completely deteriorated to the point where they’re actually memorable

10:50 - the frustration behind that "And then, even after that" is the iconic "I hate this so much that I just remembered something else you will not believe and will not stop until you know it" vibe.

If a roommate opens the door and then s/he gets killed by the killer instead of the other character, it's a typical slasher movie. If a roommate opens the door and then indirectly scares the killer away, it's a typical ghost/supernatural movie.

I got like 20000 tiktok ads for tarot and I imediately knew it was pure shit by the ads

Aaaah, that genuinely sucks. I was really looking forward to this one because I saw that the monster designs were done by Trevor Henderson - the guy who made Sirenhead, among many other cool as hell monsters. Was planning on watching it just for that, even though the plot looked super generic based on the trailer. Hope Trevor doesn't get any hate for it.

Useless information here, but the 6 of Swords is part of the minor arcana. There's 4 different types in the minor arcana: swords, cups, pentacles, and wands. The minor arcana cards are numbered 1-10, and also have Page, Knight, King and Queen. Supposedly the minor arcana is where we got regular playing cards from. The High Priestess, The Hanged Man, and Death are all the major arcana.

I never leave comments, but I feel the need to. I’m one of those “TikTok zoomers” and I felt no need to see this movie because I knew they were going to use tarot cards completely wrong. I had no idea it was going to be THIS bad, but I had an idea. Even if you don’t believe in that stuff, at the base level each card has a meaning and NONE of those ones in the movie actually mean what they said it would. The directors literally looked at the cards pictures and were like “uhhhhh… uhm… yeah this one is called the fool!! Let’s make it a clown!!!” While the actual meaning of The Fool isn’t anywhere near that. Also you don’t do horoscope readings with tarot cards??? At least, I’ve never seen anyone do that. It’s like watching someone make a movie about baseball who has never seen a single game of baseball in their life and go “uhhh… guy hits ball!” and just kind of runs with it.

2:49 this made my dog crazy for some reason

You’ll never know why I got so many likes UNLESS YOU SCROLL THROUGH ALL THE REPLIES AND LIKE EVERY SINGLE ONE

“Fortnite emoting in anger” had me dying.

I've never seen a single commercial for this, I didn't even know it existed until now

THAT was exactly my state of mind watching it yesterday. I FELT NOTHING. NOTHING. Enjoyed NOTHING. Jump scared at NOTHING. Feared NOTHING. Impressed by NOTHING. Didn't even yawn at NOTHING.

What baffles me is they got Trevor Henderson the famous and highly talent artist most known for creating siren head, cartoon cat, long horse and other internet monsters to design the creators for this movie How they got someone with his talent on board is beyond me

What pisses me off about horror from Hollywood is it is the one genre that has so many great short films to take from. Like so many people making short horror films that could used the investments.

FYI from what I learned you can use anyone's Tarot deck, but your own deck is supposed to be a gift from someone else. You're just not supposed to go out and buy a deck for yourself even if you really like the artwork.

Bro this tarot movie pissed me off because as a person who has experience with reading tarot I can tell you majority of the cards upright have positive meanings or can be interpreted positively and the worst thing that can possibly happen with tarot is self fulfilled prophecies from anxiously reading in a bad head space but other than driving yourself crazy and feeding into your delusions tarot is not scary AT ALL but it can feel intrusive at time but the whole practice works on your how much you resonate with the messages your receiving and how open you are too those messages in the first place like tarot ain’t telling you nothing you don’t already know

Horror movies are like Russian roulette but in opposite way.

KZfaq and Spotify have been shoving the trailer for this down my throat for weeks

Honestly i seen the ads and i had no faith in a movie accurately portraying tarot cards, your review confirmed it for me.

Went and saw this last night, so glad that my sentiments are shared

In 2022, I had a series of N-Stemi incidents- essentially mini-heart attacks that presented as acute indigestion- which eventually culminated in a 4x bypass. These got progressively worse in pain level and duration, and I knew I'd have to eventually get over my "guy-ness" (i.e., everything will just go away if we wait long enough) and go to the ER, or conversely, eventually drop dead. So literally the week before I did finally go to the hospital I had a particularly severe occurrence as I was watching "Moonfall" on Netflix... And I thought, "OMG please please please don't let this be the last movie I see before I die..." It really was that hilariously awful.

Monster while strangling the protagonist: 😈 Monster after their tarot uno-reverse reading: 🥺

Charlie is the funniest person when it comes to insulting pieces of art😂😂😂

I’m a tarot reader myself and man was I disappointed that someone made a movie like this… total misrepresentation

I like how you can just skim through this. See no clips. No screens. It’s just him ranting about a garbage movie

my brother said "I wonder when critical will cover this" when the trailer first came out

There was literally an ad for tarot directly above this video in my recommended list

I love these types of videos because I feel like I’ve watched the whole movie just by watching these 😂

I couldn't help but think of a comedic turn when you said she drew the card of Six Swords - I just imagine the response from one of the guys screaming, "The Swords of Revealing Light?!"

My headphones went out when the prediction predicted technology letting you down... and thats the more scared ive been throughout this experience

Saw an ad for it while waiting for Ghostbusters. I was like Nope. I rarely watch Movies, more of a TV binge-watcher.

8:35 never in my life would i think that charles would reference dbd

Im just glad Ned made some new friends after Peter Parker had to leave him 😭

00:55 Disasterpiece was RIGHT THERE

I lost a major court case this past friday. The court sentenced me to three viewings of Tarot. I opted for 3 years hard time instead.

When I saw the trailer, I actively said out loud "I've seen scarier things at Wendy's"