Director: Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg
Break one rule of a tarot reading, this film argues, and the cards start writing your death themselves.
What is Tarot about?
A group of friends treats a stack of vintage tarot cards as a party trick, ignoring the one rule that came with them, and each reader is soon hunted according to the card they drew. Directors Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg structure the film as a countdown, picking off the ensemble one at a time as every fate arrives in a form specific to that person's card. Harriet Slater and Adain Bradley lead a young cast racing to trace the deck's origin and break the curse before the reading finishes what it started, uncovering the dark history behind the cards along the way.
Cast & crew
Harriet Slater carries the film as its central lead, opposite Adain Bradley, Avantika, and Jacob Batalon, who brings comic relief familiar from his prior genre work. Humberly Gonzalez, Wolfgang Novogratz, and Larsen Thompson round out the doomed friend group, while Olwen Fouere appears as the reader whose warning comes too late for the group to heed.
Context & significance
Released in 2024, Tarot draws on a long tradition of curse-object horror, updating the formula with an occult specificity built around actual tarot iconography rather than a generic haunted object. At 92 minutes, the film moves briskly through its set-piece sequences, and its choice to design each death around a distinct tarot card gives it a visual identity that sets it apart from typical teen-horror entries built around a single recurring threat. The film also leans into real tarot symbolism and lore for its production design, giving each card-specific sequence its own color palette and staging rather than repeating a single visual gimmick throughout.
Where & how to watch
Tarot is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking horror fans follow the film's twists in their own language. Watching requires logging into a free K-Time account, while the film's page remains open to read without one. K-Time's Farsi-language interface is built around the viewing habits of the Iranian diaspora.