The primary full trailer for Adam Scott’s upcoming horror film “Hokum” has arrived, and suffice it to say we’re getting ready to imagine the fetal place. The movie is written and directed by Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy, who delivered a great quaint scary film with “Oddity” in 2024. Now, he is teamed up with Neon, the identical firm that introduced us one of the vital terrifying horror motion pictures of 2024 in “Longlegs,” to ship what appears to be like set to be a equally horrifying expertise with “Hokum.”
A teaser for the film appeared in December 2025, and adopted the rubric established by “Longlegs” and its genius advertising and marketing marketing campaign. That’s to say, it did not reveal an entire lot past palpably creepy vibes, which is strictly how a horror film ought to announce itself. We do know some particulars concerning the plot of “Hokum,” which revolves round an creator touring to a distant a part of Eire to unfold his dad and mom’ ashes. However very like with “Oddity” and McCarthy’s 2020 effort “Caveat,” Adam Scott’s author character will probably be menaced by some type of unspeakable evil.
McCarthy shot his earlier two movies in a transformed barn in Eire, and “Hokum” was additionally shot on location in West Cork, although it is unclear if the notorious barn will make a return. For now, we have now the brand new trailer, which guarantees yet one more glimpse right into a nightmarish netherworld that can certainly hang-out us all for years to come back.
Is Hokum teasing a shared universe?
Whew, the oldsters at Neon positive know the right way to market a horror film, do not they? That is an extremely efficient trailer, and Damian McCarthy has confirmed he has a knack for creating deeply disturbing imagery (like regardless of the heck is occurring within the picture above, which flashes briefly on the very finish of the trailer). A few of that imagery is repeated all through McCarthy’s work; there’s an outdated rabbit doll from his first movie, “Caveat,” that made its means into “Oddity,” and the lengthy ears in that picture have us questioning if it’d pop up in some type on this film, too.
Equally, “Oddity” options a number of references to a bodily bell that appears awfully near the one we see within the “Hokum” trailer, and a personality in “Oddity” tells the next story:
“There was a person, not a really nice one, who spent most of his life working as a bellboy in a resort. And one night time, he was exhibiting a drunk visitor to his room, and the visitor shoved him down the steps and he broke his neck and he died within the fall. And some days later, the receptionist rang the bell to summon the brand new bellboy, solely who did she see operating in the direction of her, not trying very pleased?”
The thought is that ringing the bell brings concerning the return of the ghoulish bellboy, and spoilers for the top of “Oddity,” however when a personality rings the bell on the very finish of that movie, we see the ghoulish bellboy seem within the flesh.
Is that this the identical bellboy who seems within the “Hokum” trailer, or does McCarthy identical to the concept of recurring imagery? Maybe we’ll get a solution when “Hokum” hits theaters on Might 1, 2026.
