This is a variation on the cabin in the woods films. A group of college
students, four girls and three boys, spend a weekend in a mansion. That's a step
up from the usual cabins. In the cellar they find a wooden box containing a
deck of tarot cards. They know that one of the students, Haley, is an expert
in the cards, so they ask her to read their fortunes. At first she refuses,
because she said it's a rule that nobody should use another person's cards,
but they insist. It's only fun.
So she lays cards for them, one at a time. It's a weird method. She lays 12
cards in a circle, then the main card in the middle.
The next day they return to college. One by one the students are killed, each
one by the figure from the main card in his reading. After some research, they
find out that the cards are 200 years old. The astrologist who designed them
gave a baron a bad reading, telling him his wife would die, and when it came
true he blamed her. The astrologist's daughter was killed, so she killed
herself and transferred her soul into the cards to get revenge.
From what I've read, the film is a box office hit, but the critics don't like
it, and I don't like it either. There are too many jump scares, but not enough
to cover up a poor plot. None of it really makes sense. Apart from which, the
cards are poorly drawn.
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