Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
In Hokum, novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, only to be consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a sudden disappearance force him to confront his own buried past. If slow-burn supernatural dread anchored in grief and isolation draws you in, these films, games, books, and shows cover the same ground.
Hokum is a 2026 supernatural horror film written and directed by Damian McCarthy. The film stars Adam Scott as an author who travels to a hotel in Ireland, unaware that the hotel may be haunted. Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Michael Patric, Will O'Connell, Brendan Conroy, and Austin Amelio appear in supporting roles.
From the Wikipedia article Hokum_(film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Umineko: When They Cry
A family gathers on an island as the ailing patriarch's inheritance sparks mounting tension.
Series
Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales
Three classic Japanese horror tales of vengeance, forbidden love, and the dead who refuse to rest.
Series
Haibane Renmei
A young woman born into a strange liminal world must piece together the meaning of her own existence.
Series
Oh My Ghost Clients
A labor attorney who survives a near-death experience can now see ghosts and must resolve their unfinished business.
Series
Kill My Sins
A doctor called a witch arrives in a new city and is accused of a sudden murder she must disprove.
Series
Mahkum
A prosecutor wakes in prison with amnesia, forced to excavate his buried past to prove his innocence.
Game
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi
A quiet rural village in early summer harbours violent, inexplicable secrets just beneath its ordinary surface.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi
The same idyllic Hinamizawa village gradually reveals something deeply wrong beneath its everyday surface.
Game
Hohokum
An open-ended exploration game focused on wandering through a strange, handcrafted world without fixed goals.
Game
Hokko Life
A cosy village-building sim where you arrive in a quiet town and design it into a charming rural community.
Game
Umineko When They Cry (Question Arc)
A family converges on a remote island for their annual conference as the aging family head's inheritance looms over everything.
Game
BOMJMAN
An epic saga set in a grim post-cyberpunk megalopolis swept by colossal injustice and forces beyond any individual's control.
Book
Ghost night
Actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set, their bodies posed as a historical massacre homage.
Book
Horrorween
A small town lives under the shadow of Samhain, the Lord of Death, whose sinister presence pervades local legend.
Book
Wyrmeweald Bloodhoney
In a deadly winter wyrmeweald, Micah and his companions are hunted by an assassin intent on vengeance.
Book
Windigo Island
A missing girl's body surfaces on a Lake Superior island, stirring Ojibwa superstitions and reluctant, frightened witnesses.
Book
The Complete Horowitz Horror
Everyday surfaces hide genuinely sinister depths — haunted objects, cursed spaces — exactly the mode of dread *Hokum* sustains throughout.
Film
Hoon Payon
Grief over his parents' deaths sends a man to an isolated island temple haunted by supernatural forces.
Film
Tenung
A family member's sudden, inexplicable affliction drives the protagonist toward supernatural explanations, mirroring *Hokum*'s tension between rational and uncanny.
Film
Island
Strangers on an isolated island accidentally disturb something ancient, echoing *Hokum*'s theme of outsiders unleashing forces they don't understand.
Film
The Shrine
Friends exploring a remote Japanese shrine encounter strange, escalating events and unexplained injuries.
Film
Kwaidan
An anthology of folk-horror tales where betrayal and supernatural consequence intertwine, much as *Hokum* layers local legend against personal reckoning.
Film
Karakkam
Two men who desecrate graves on a drunken prank are haunted by five restless ghosts until they seek redemption.
Fans of Hokum's slow-burn supernatural dread tend to love Kwaidan, a haunting 1965 anthology of Japanese ghost folk tales, and Hoon Payon, a 2023 horror-thriller where a temple on a remote island hides something deeply wrong.
If Hokum's isolated setting and creeping mystery appeal to you, Umineko When They Cry (Question Arc) delivers the same atmosphere — a family trapped on a remote island while a witch's curse picks them off one by one.
The Complete Horowitz Horror is a strong match — a collection of stories where the sinister lurks just beneath an ordinary surface, very much in the spirit of Hokum's haunted-inn dread.