Directed by Jason Winn (Deadly Secrets of a Cam Girl) and written by Dean Loftis and Mary O’Neil (Sinister Surgeon, You Shouldn’t Have Let Me In), Tarot Curse has Tara (Lauren Chanel), Preston (Kamarion Miller), Jordan (Triston Dye), Quinn (Evelyn Kim) and Chloe (Selena Turner) getting fake IDs and going to New Orleans to party. While there, they learn their futures from The Reader (Anna Talakkottur), who — as if you couldn’t guess by the title — curses them with a Final Destination-esque series of deaths.

There’s a character named The Bone Daddy (Mikhail Keize) in this, and I just want to point that out.

This has one major scene going for it: a vending machine that slices the fingers of one of the characters when they attempt to put their hand into it and pull out a stuck candy bar. This has always been one of my big worries, and seeing it in a movie, complete with practical blood and gore, made me yell out loud, which rarely happens anymore. What a shocking scene almost topped by a chandelier to the head later.

While Tarot Curse is very much a by-the-numbers teen curse movie, it is much better than most studio horror these days, and it’s free on Tubi. For its million-dollar budget, the kills look good, the New Orleans scenery is appropriately dark and mysterious, and the movie moves quickly. What more could you ask for?

You can watch this on Tubi.