Adam Scott has loads of expertise with the horrific and bizarre, having starred within the likes of Severance, Little Evil, Krampus, Piranha 3D, and Hellraiser: Bloodline. Earlier this yr, we realized that he’s including to his style résumé with the supernatural horror movie Hokum, which was filmed on location in Eire. Just a few months in the past, it was introduced that NEON and Waypoint Entertainment’s Cweature Options have boarded the challenge, with NEON planning to present the movie a theatrical launch in america someday in 2026… and now we all know precisely when that launch goes to occur. A press launch has revealed that Hokum will attain theatres on Could 1, 2026. Together with the discharge date announcement comes the revealing of the primary picture from the movie, which may be seen on the backside of this text.
What’s Hokum about?
Hokum is coming our approach from author/director Damian McCarthy, whose horror movie Oddity is claimed to have “caused a stir after premiering at SXSW, where it won the audience award in the Midnighter section.” That film made its approach out into the world final summer time, telling the story of “a blind medium and curio shopkeeper who is still grieving the death of her twin sister a year prior when a wooden mannequin from her collection becomes crucial to her quest to uncover the truth about her sister’s murder.” The story McCarthy has crafted for Hokum will see Scott taking up the function of a horror novelist who visits a distant Irish inn to unfold his mother and father’ ashes, unaware the place is rumored to be haunted by a witch. Right here’s the synopsis: 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. Scott is joined within the forged by Peter Coonan (Unhealthy Sisters) and David Wilmot (Bodkin).
Behind the scenes
Cweature Options are co-producers on the challenge, becoming a member of Picture Nation and Spooky Footage, in addition to Group Thrives, who co-financed.
Hokum is being produced by Spooky Footage’ Roy Lee and Steven Schneider, Picture Nation’s Derek Dauchy, and Tailor-made Movie’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, and Mairtín de Barra. Ben Ross, Dan Kagan, Rami Yasin, and Andrew Childs function government producers. The challenge can be supported by co-production funding from Display Eire/ Fís Éireann.
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