Love/Hate and Severance stars’ new Irish thriller gets proper first look

Adam Scott stars in the Ireland-set movie.

The movie is written and directed by Damian Mc Carthy, who made one of JOE's favourite films of recent years with 2024's Oddity. That was a dark and twisty supernatural chiller, with touches of wonderfully ghoulish, almost-Hitchcockian humour.

Oddity wound up being dubbed one of the scariest movies ever, according to science. As such, expectations are extremely high for Hokum.

For his latest film, Mc Carthy has teamed with horror super-producer Roy Lee, who was involved with hits such as Companion, It, Late Night with the Devil, and Weapons.

The movie centres around Ohm Bauman (Scott), an American novelist who travels to a remote part of Ireland to scatter his parents' ashes.

Staying at a local inn, however, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite.

"Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance force him to confront dark corners of his past," the plot synopsis adds.

Alongside Scott, the cast of Hokum includes Love/Hate's Peter Coonan, as well as Austin Amelio (Hit Man), Brendan Conroy (That They May Face the Rising Sun), David Wilmot (The Guard) and Florence Ordesh (Dublin Murders).

Hokum will premiere at the SXSW festival on 14 March before landing in Irish cinemas on 1 May.

Check out its trailer below: