Hokum (2026)
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A horror writer travels to a remote Irish village to scatter his parents' ashes. He gradually discovers that the hotel where he's staying is haunted by a local witch.
- Actors:
- Adam Scott, David Wilmot, Austin Amelio, Florence Ordesh, Peter Coonan, Michael Patric, Brendan Conroy, Will O'Connell, Sioux Carroll, Mallory Adams, Ezra Carlisle, Siox C
- Directors:
- Damian Mc Carthy
- Producers:
- Derek Dauchy, Mairtín de Barra, Julianne Forde, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Ruth Treacy
- Writers:
- Damian Mc Carthy
- Aka:
- Бредни
- Studio:
- Black Bear
- Genres:
- Horror, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Ireland
More like Hokum
Reviews (2) of Hokum
Something Wicked This Way Fumbles - Hokum review by griggs
Damian McCarthy's third feature leans hard into its own joke. Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) — a grumpy American novelist who thinks the paranormal is, well, hokum — retreats to a remote Irish hotel to scatter his parents' ashes and promptly gets very haunted indeed.
McCarthy has real tools. Scott is all frayed nerves and bad temper, but the women around him are more interesting — shifting between comfort, menace, forgiveness and revenge. It's not their story, more's the pity.
The cinematography flashes genuine promise. One shot quietly unlocks what the film could be about: thresholds, circles, folklore's borders. Then a jump scare barges in and the moment evaporates. That's Hokum: it finds something strange, then drops it for a jolt — the script barely scratching the surface of Irish and Celtic folklore.
A well-made haunted hotel yarn that can't quite commit to the film it glimpses in the mirror.
Nonsensical Rubbish - Hokum review by KB
Like most modern horror films this isn't very good at all and it was a real test of endurance to make it to the end. It's an unpleasant film with a poor script, a daft premise and predictable scares .A lot of scenes are quite dark and it feels disjointed and wasn't at all engrossing .I don't know why the " Parks and Recreation " actor in it would want to be in dirge like this.