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“Witches can often enjoy the film versions of ourselves,” says Meg Elison in today’s review of the new movie TAROT, “who worship fake deities, cast nonsense spells, and practice bonkers made-up magic. Even those Witches will have a hard time enjoying Tarot, a new horror film by Spencer Cohen and Anna Halberg. Simply put, this movie is tarot-ble.”
“The Covenant” seemed like it was made to be the boys’ own answer to “The Craft.” But the film is too caught up in its own broken masculinity to begin to offer a coherent vision of magic – much less a coherent film.
A film where Christopher Lee performs real ceremonial magic techniques should be a shoo-in for our Classics of Pagan Cinema, right? Not so fast, writes Meg Elison, who reviews the 1968 film “The Devil Rides Out” and finds it not just flawed, but repellent.