Tarot traps Jo Yeo-jung and Go Kyu-pil in a cruel fate
by tccolb
LG’s Studio X+U has been gearing up for Tarot’s upcoming theater release, coming out with a new poster and video teaser for the mystery-horror’s film version starring Jo Yeo-jung (Behind Every Star), Go Kyu-pil (Frankly Speaking), and YouTuber/celebrity personality Dex (a.k.a. Kim Jin-young).
Out of the seven episodes in the omnibus-style series, Jo Yeo-jung’s segment Santa’s Visit was first featured at the Cannes International Series Festival this past April. The theater edit adds Go Kyu-pil’s Late Night Taxi and Dex’s Abandon Me into the mix, all connected of course by the terrible fate that befalls them through our story’s suspicious tarot cards.
We thus begin the teaser with each of our leads encountering said cards as they go about their everyday life. Dong-in (Dex) is told that his High Priestess card will bring great fortune, while Kyung-rae (Go Kyu-pil) scoffs to hear that The Fool card indicates he’ll be a freewheeling womanizer. Elsewhere, Ji-woo (Jo Yeo-jung) holds The Wheel of Fortune and reads that it could bring her opportunities and good luck.
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This then begins our characters’ slip into the cursed trap as Dong-in’s friend calls him about a not-so-pleasant woman who might be looking for Dong-in. It’s unclear if she is the customer on Dong-in’s next delivery order, but he’s taken aback by her odd behavior and request to take out the trash.
We then cut to Kyung-rae who is eerily taken off course at night when his strange taxi driver Lee Moon-shik (Big Bet) decides to detour into a dark forest. Although the driver claims that he needs to make a quick stopover, we also overhear an unsettling phone call about blood.
Anxious about leaving her daughter at home alone, single mom Ji-woo keeps checking her phone at work. But as we watch a last video call with her daughter, Ji-woo soon realizes that something is off. As the horror ramps up in the final sequence, the teaser comes to a close on a text screen addressing the audience, creepily asking, “Would you like to try changing your fate?”
On the production side, Tarot has PD Choi Byung-gil (High Class) at the helm with scripts penned by Kyung Min-sun. In theaters, the film cut releases on June 14 next week. But we’ll have to wait a little longer for the full series, which is expected to launch on LG’s U+ Mobile TV later this year.
Via 10 Asia, MBC
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