Movie Monster
Major Arcana horror deck featuring movie monsters with added Universe card.
by Samantha Kocsis · Self Published Deck Type: Tarot Deck Cards: 23 Rating: stars out of five Where to
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The record
This is a Major Arcana Only deck. There are however 23 cards in it rather than the usual 22, as the artist and creator Samantha Kocsis, has included an extra card, The Universe. The Universe card aside, the cards in this deck bear the traditional titles of the Major Arcana. Some of the images are derived from the Rider-Waite system. So far, so expected. But because this deck is devoted to movie monsters - "those phantoms and nasties that had us spilling the popcorn", to quote the booklet - the iconography is rather different. The Fool is not a nimble-footed young man with a dog at his heels; it is Frankenstein. He's just been created - he is clearly naive but also dangerously ignorant. The Magician is a man behind a table displaying the tools of his trade. Very Rider-Waite. But the setting is a lab and the man is the Mad Scientist, he could be Dr. Frankenstein himself or he could be one of many other mad scientists in the history of creepy films. Again, Ms. Kocsis remains true to the traditional meaning of the card: we have great potential, we can do great things, but we must be aware of becoming arrogant, perverting our talents for destructive ends. She has even kept the lemniscat
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