NEON has annouced that Damian McCarthy's horrific supernatural thriller Hokum is arriving on Digital today, June 2nd, and on physical media (4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD) on August 11th, 2026. The film stars Adam Scott and follows novelist Ohm Bauman as he retreats to a remote inn to scatter his
Neon’s Hokum, starring Adam Scott and directed by Damian McCarthy, opened to $6.4 million across 1,885 screens this weekend at the box office. That is a solid start for a low budget horror entry set in a haunted Irish inn. Especially considering the crowded field it entered. The film lands at
This weekend sees the release of the horror film Hokum, the latest film from writer and director Damian McCarthy, starring the always reliable Adam Scott. The film is a lot of things at once, going from Irish folklore horror film to a mystery thriller to a surprisingly moving story about trauma,
Hokum is a story about telling stories, and all of the elevated frights and scares mined from timeless sources of culture lend it all to feel but lived in and supernaturally surreal. Smart choices like this leave me wanting more from both McCarthy and Irish folktales. They gave us whiskey and
Hokum follows in the footsteps of other horror movies released recently that are what we like to call "slow burns." That subgenre usually starts slow and brings our characters into another world or brings an item from another world into ours. Hokum comes from writer/director Damian McCarthy, who
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