Hokum Teaser Trailer Featuring Adam Scott
NEON has released the official teaser trailer for writer and director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum, opening in theaters on May 1, 2026. The film has not yet been rated by the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw him into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
The cast also includes Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Will O’Connell, and Michael Patric. Siox C, Brendan Conroy, Austin Amelio, and Ezra Carlisle. Hokum follows McCarthy’s feature debut Oddity, which premiered at SXSW and won the Audience Award in the Midnighter Section.
The film is produced by Cweature Features, Spooky Pictures founders Roy Lee (IT: Welcome to Derry, Weapons) and Steven Schneider, Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy, and Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, and Mairtín de Barra.
The executive producers include Cweature Features’ Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum, as well as Ben Ross, Dan Kagan, Rami Yasin, Andrew Childs, and Team Thrives’ Bryan Meng and Dr. Terence Chan. The project is also supported by co-production funding from Screen Ireland/ Fís Éireann.
Hokum is the latest collaboration between Image Nation and Spooky Pictures, following Charlie Polinger’s lauded feature The Plague, the hit Late Night With the Devil, and the critically acclaimed thriller Watcher, directed by Chloe Okuno and starring Maika Monroe. The project is the sixth in the current Image Nation/Spooky Pictures slate, following the announcement of Bryan Edward Hill’s Archangel and Randall Okita’s Menace.
