Horror Movie News: Horrorscope is now TAROT. The Legend of Lake Hollow trailer released.

 

What do the cards have in store for you today?

Tarot cards have been used to tell the future. Each cards tell a story and each card that is picked, especially in a sequence, is used to give guidelines on what your future holds. 

In 1992, a young adult mystery novel HORRORSCOPE was published. The author was Nicholas Adams but it is now known that the true author is John Peel who was writing under a pseudonym. 

Horrorscope became a popular novel among teens and is a personal favorite of mine as well. The story was about a serial killer targeting high school kids based on their horoscope readings that was published in the school newspaper. The writer was none other than our main character Robyn who found horoscopes and zodiac signs fascinating but also understood that the stars mainly influenced people and not controlled their destinies. 

So of course when students start dying because of her readings, she becomes a suspect but she in turn suspects her nerdy science partner Jeff because he’s always so quiet. 

Turns out the killer was the janitor. 

The story was fun, spooky, and mysterious. You would not guess until the end who the killer could be. 

When it was announced that there was a movie going to be adapted on it, I was beyond thrilled. But after watching the trailer for TAROT, my expectations have been a tad lowered. 

In Horrorscope, Robyn’s mother was a tarot card reader but Robyn did not believe in it at all which is why turning the story from zodiac signs to tarot cards is a bit disappointing because why make a story on tarot cards that the main character did not believe in?

After watching the trailer for TAROT, I am no longer disappointed. 

The trailer for TAROT reveals just who eerie and gruesome the movie is really going to be. 

Whether or not the main character is going to be called Robyn, remains to be seen because there is no indication of what the names of all the characters are. 

In the trailer, we see a group of high school kids, indulging in a tarot card reading. However, the girl doing the readings forgot one important rule: never use someone else’s tarot card deck. 

And since she just “found it” there is obviously going to be something not so nice things happening to these kids. 

After each character picks a card, they are targeted by the creatures depicted in the cards. 

In one scene, we see a girl come face to face with the grotesque creature in her card after which she loses her balance and falls off the ladder leading to the attic.

In the next instant, the ladder comes down on her. 

The others are haunted by the creatures corresponding to the cards they picked. Can they make it out alive?

TAROT definitely seems like a must-see movie for horror fans but it remains to be seen if it will work on the box office. 

Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg have written and directed this movie based on Nicholas Adams’ book. 

The movie stars Avantika, Harriet Slater, and Jacob Batalon. 

TAROT releases on May 10th. 

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The Legend of Lake Hollow has a trailer and if you are in the mood to watch a movie with a lot of horror tropes and really ‘hollow’ acting, then this is the movie for you. 

The trailer for the movie starts off well initially with the setting of a group of friends spending their holidays at a cabin in the middle of nowhere. On the way to a hike, they check the trail cameras and find a picture of a creepy creature. 

They then get a visit from the caretaker of the property who looks like he’s holding onto a lot of secrets.

 

 Later when the friends go to search for him, he is conveniently not there.

The friends talk about men with axes, coyotes and whatnot. There’s a girl with a malicious grin, a board that says Wendigo and lots of people standing in the woods in the middle of the night, trying to look creepy. 

It seems to be one of those movies that has too much of everything except for acting skills. The dialogues are choppy and the acting, yes, I’m mentioning it again, is awful. 

Then again, it seems to be one of those movies that is bad but it is also something you want to watch just so you can see how bad it can be. Or maybe it may just end up surprising you. 

Directed by Chris Hollo, and written by Jerry Robbins, the movie stars Meg Barlowe, Liz Atwater, James David West, and Brendan Bald. 

THE LEGEND OF LAKE HOLLOW releases on March 26th.