Hokum (2026)
Hokum is a 2026 horror movie directed by Damian McCarthy, with a running time of 1h 48m. It stars Adam Scott, Peter Coonan and David Wilmot.
Novelist Ohm Bauman travels to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes and finds himself pulled into local stories about a witch said to haunt the honeymoon suite. Visions bleed into his stay, a guest vanishes, and the past he came to bury refuses to stay quiet. Damian McCarthy, who made Caveat and Oddity, writes and directs, with Adam Scott as the unraveling writer and a supporting cast including Peter Coonan and David Wilmot. The tone favors slow dread and unease over spectacle.
Where to watch Hokum
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Cast
- Adam Scott as Ohm Bauman
- Peter Coonan as Mal
- David Wilmot as Jerry
- Florence Ordesh as Fiona
- Michael Patric as Fergal
- Will O'Connell as Alby / Jack (The Jackass)
- Brendan Conroy as Cob
- Ezra Carlisle as Boy
- Austin Amelio as Conquistador
- Mallory Adams as Ohm's Mother
- Sioux Carroll as Witch
- Brian Bowler as Background Actor
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A few thoughts on Hokum
The Shining is the clear ancestor, a haunted building slowly working on a writer's mind, in either Kubrick's film or Stephen King's novel. For sustained supernatural dread on TV, FROM traps its cast in a place that will not let them leave. Damian McCarthy's own Oddity offers more of his patient Irish horror.
Haunted houses and inns where something won't let you leave
Ohm can't finish scattering his parents' ashes before the inn's honeymoon suite pulls him into its own history, and No One Gets Out Alive and The Haunting in Connecticut trap their characters inside a building with that same hostile memory. 825 Forest Road and Never Let Go tighten that dread down to a single house, while The Grudge shows what happens once a place decides to keep you.
Horror manga and comics built on slow, creeping dread
Hokum favors unease over spectacle, letting visions bleed into Ohm's stay rather than jumping straight to violence, and Uzumaki and Tomie build entire manga around that same slow accumulation of wrongness. Dark Gathering follows a similarly reluctant lead pulled into a haunting he never asked for, while Locke & Key roots its supernatural dread inside one family's inherited house.
Gothic and cosmic horror that trades jump scares for dread
Damian McCarthy builds Hokum on slow unease rather than shocks, and In the Mouth of Madness runs on that exact instinct, a writer pulled into a horror his own fiction seems to have summoned. The Haunted Palace and Color Out of Space root their dread in a place gone quietly, cosmically wrong, and Warlock keeps its witch mythology just as unhurried and menacing.