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Hokum follows depressed author Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) at a haunted Irish inn where a locked honeymoon suite is said to trap a witch; mixing The Shining vibes with Get Out and Twilight Zone’s The Howling Man, the story hinges on mushrooms that may let Ohm glimpse a real supernatural realm even as his own guilt and trauma color what he believes to be true.
Irish director Damian McCarthy’s ‘Oddity’—a slow-burn, atmosphere-driven horror about a blind medium unraveling her sister’s death—streams on Hulu, illustrating McCarthy’s knack for dread over constant jump scares and cementing his rising horror cred after ‘Hokum’.
Adam Scott didn’t set out to be a horror star, but his career has steadily leaned into the genre—from Hellraiser IV to Krampus and Severance. His latest lead in Hokum, directed by Damian McCarthy, is driven more by the character and story than fright, and required him to act largely solo in a claustrophobic hotel set. He praises McCarthy’s process and notes the shared tension-building between horror and comedy as a throughline in his work, with Hokum opening in theaters on May 1.