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
Remaking Faces of Death is a hell of a move in 2026. Although, this movie doesn't really remake that diabolical film from 1978, it instead takes inspiration from it and it even exists in the universe that this film takes place in. So getting that out of the way so that the horror "diehards" who
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely
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The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
