‘Hokum’ Final Trailer Opens Closed Minds to Damian McCarthy’s Witchy Nightmare Fuel

The final trailer for Hokum seeks to open closed minds to the witchy terror lurking in the bowels of a haunted hotel.

You’ll want to check into writer/director Damian McCarthy‘s hotel of horror when Hokum releases in theaters on May 1, 2026.

Adam Scott stars as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind.

Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.

Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) round out the cast.

Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.

I wrote in my 4.5-skull review out of SXSW, “Hokum so thoroughly invests you in Ohm’s off-kilter quest, one that keeps raising new intrigues and questions, and in a way that’s not easily predicted. The full scope of terror takes a while to arrive for the sake of building anticipation, such nail-biting anticipation that explodes in a folkloric freakout, yet it still holds you firmly in its grip.”

Tickets are on sale now, as well as a few early sneak screenings. Fans of Oddity and Caveat won’t want to miss McCarthy’s latest folkloric nightmare.

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