Hokum

Dir: Damian McCarthy, Ireland, 2026, Horror/Thriller.
Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh.
Sponsored by The Benevolent Irish Society.
"Adam Scott plays Ohm Bauman, a cynical, embittered author… On a whim, he leaves his palatial modern manse in Washington state and heads out to Ireland, to the very hotel his late parents enjoyed their honeymoon. As Damian McCarthy‘s film is a proper Irish horror story, there’s a witch, a cynic and a drunk involved.  Once at the dark, drab place... one of the attendants suddenly goes missing, shortly after helping Ohm in a deeply affecting way, and he feels obliged to get to the bottom of her case, even as Cob, a local vagabond with an illustrious past, convinces him she’s been murdered… McCarthy‘s film is a taut, well apportioned horror flick with genuine spooks aplenty… Much of the film feels appropriately closed in and claustrophobic - it’s the kind of movie where the frame remains resolutely dark and macabre no matter how many lights are turned on - and it has just enough psychological depth (and sense of humor) to keep things popping. I would not suggest watching it alone." - Piers Marchant, Cinemotic

Genre: Horror

Runtime: 107 min

Rating: 14A