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

When you’re a horror fan who’s not but acquainted with the work of Damian McCarthy—you may be quickly. The author-director of 2020’s Caveat and 2024’s Oddity is about to launch his most high-profile movie so far, because of its star: Severance‘s Adam Scott. Whereas McCarthy’s earlier movies are excellently creepy and properly price in search of out (Oddity achieved the uncommon feat of creating 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 staff behind 2024 standout Late Night With the Devil. It’s being distributed by Neon, house 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 knowledge hooked up to the teaser does add on slightly: “When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Scott) retreats to a distant Irish inn to scatter his mother and father’ ashes, the employees’s tales of an historical witch haunting the honeymoon suite snatch 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 certain makes it appear to be the movie will embrace his trademark mix of eerie ambiance, a central thriller with supernatural parts, folk-horror frights, and bounce 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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