Adam Scott’s ‘Hokum’ Teaser Is the Freakiest 40 Seconds You may See All Day

In case you’re a horror fan who’s not but accustomed to the work of Damian McCarthy—you’ll be quickly. The author-director of 2020’s Caveat and 2024’s Oddity is about to launch his most high-profile movie thus far, because of its star: Severance‘s Adam Scott. Whereas McCarthy’s earlier movies are excellently creepy and effectively value searching for out (Oddity achieved the uncommon feat of constructing me, a seasoned horror hag, scream out loud), Scott’s title will certainly entice extra eyeballs to Hokum, which simply dropped a disturbing first teaser.

Hokum was announced early this year with the added attraction of being produced by the group behind 2024 standout Late Night With the Devil. It’s being distributed by Neon, residence of Longlegs and Presence. 

The teaser additionally touts its producer connection to Weapons. And sure, there’s a witch concerned!

We don’t have many extra plot particulars than what was introduced beforehand, although the data hooked up to the teaser does add on just a little: “When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Scott) retreats to a distant Irish inn to scatter his mother and father’ ashes, the workers’s tales of an historic witch haunting the honeymoon suite clutch his thoughts. Quickly, disturbing visions and a surprising disappearance draw him right into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his previous.”

McCarthy is Irish, and his earlier two options are additionally set in Eire. The Hokum teaser positive makes it seem like the movie will embrace his trademark mix of eerie environment, a central thriller with supernatural parts, folk-horror frights, and soar scares that earn it after they make you leap out of your seat.

Hokum hits theaters Might 1. Will you be checking in for it?

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