The last pumpkins of Halloween are still shrivelling away, while gingerbread and Christmas stollen are already filling the shelves. The season between Halloween and Christmas is currently also reflected in the film tastes of Netflix subscribers. Because the top 10 is currently determined by horror shockers and Christmas rom-coms.
This is now being added Horror film Tarot – Deadly Prophecywhich has now been available to stream on Netflix since November 18th, just six months after its theatrical release. And it promptly made it to number 1 on the Netflix charts.
This is the German top 10 Netflix films at the time of this article:
The story of the horror film is based on a novel – and a real game
As the title suggests, the center of Tarot is the card game of the same name, whose origins go back (at least) to the 15th century – and which has also been used for fortune telling since the 18th century. And in this case A deck of tarot cards provides death prophecieswhich cost a group of friends their lives one by one in the best Final Destination style.
Watch a German trailer for Tarot here:
Tarot: Deadly Prophecy – Trailer (German) HD
What’s interesting is that the horror film only got its Tarot title shortly before its release and was originally named after his 1992 novel Horrorscope. The cast of young tarot card victims includes Harriet Slater (Pennyworth), Avantika (Mean Girls) and Jacob Batalon (Ned from the Spider-Man films).
Tarot has an average rating of 4.9 points in the Moviepilot community. The fact that the film doesn’t promise a big horror highlight is also reflected on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, where the film only gets ratings of 17% and 4.8 points.
Tarot – Deadly Prophecy received an age rating of 16 years and over from the FSK, while the film was given a PG-13 rating in the USA.