Adam Scott has loads of expertise with the horrific and bizarre, having starred within the likes of Severance, Little Evil, Krampus, Piranha 3D, and Hellraiser: Bloodline. Earlier this yr, we realized that he’s including to his style résumé with the supernatural horror movie Hokum, which was filmed on location in Eire. Just a few months in the past, it was introduced that NEON and Waypoint Leisure’s Cweature Options have boarded the undertaking, with NEON planning to offer the movie a theatrical launch in the US on Might 1, 2026. And at this time, a full trailer has arrived on-line. You’ll be able to watch it within the embed above.
What’s Hokum about?
Hokum is coming our method from author/director Damian McCarthy, whose horror movie Oddity is alleged to have “triggered a stir after premiering at SXSW, the place it gained the viewers award within the Midnighter part.” That film made its method out into the world final summer time, telling the story of “a blind medium and curio shopkeeper who continues to be grieving the loss of life of her twin sister a yr prior when a wood model from her assortment turns into essential to her quest to uncover the reality about her sister’s homicide.” The story McCarthy has crafted for Hokum will see Scott taking up the position of a horror novelist who visits a distant Irish inn to unfold his dad and mom’ ashes, unaware the place is rumored to be haunted by a witch. Right here’s the synopsis: When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Scott) retreats to a distant Irish inn to scatter his dad and mom’ ashes, the employees’s tales of an historic witch haunting the honeymoon suite seize his thoughts. Quickly, disturbing visions and a surprising disappearance draw him right into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his previous. Scott is joined within the forged by Peter Coonan (Unhealthy Sisters) and David Wilmot (Bodkin).
Behind the scenes
Cweature Options are co-producers on the undertaking, becoming a member of Picture Nation and Spooky Footage, in addition to Staff Thrives, who co-financed.
Hokum is being produced by Spooky Footage’ Roy Lee and Steven Schneider, Picture Nation’s Derek Dauchy, and Tailor-made Movie’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, and Mairtín de Barra. Ben Ross, Dan Kagan, Rami Yasin, and Andrew Childs function government producers. Cweature Options’ Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum are government producers as effectively. The undertaking can also be supported by co-production funding from Display screen Eire/ Fís Éireann.
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