News Hokum Adam Scott Is on a Terrible Irish Vacation in the Teaser Trailer for Hokum Ding, dong, there’s a witch and she’s definitely not entirely dead By Molly Templeton | Published on December 15, 2025 Screenshot: Neon Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Neon It is hard to know which part of the too-short teaser for Hokum, the new film from writer-director Damian McCarthy, to focus on first. Adam Scott playing a reclusive novelist? Adam Scott playing a reclusive novelist who is going to Ireland to scatter his parents’—yes, parents, plural—ashes? The witch haunting his inn’s honeymoon suite, which is, you know, very suggestive, quite different from a witch haunting the kitchen or lobby? Or the promise of Scott’s character’s dark past? Personally I’m stuck on “Adam Scott, reclusive novelist,” but of course I am, being a fan of both writing and Adam Scott. Hokum is the third feature film from Oddity director McCarthy. Here’s the synopsis: When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (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. Along with Scott, Hokum stars Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Will O’Connell, and Michael Patric. But the trailer is mostly Scott, when it’s not creepy and indistinct flashes of nightmarish stuff. (If there is one thing I know about horror stories, it’s that when there is a white line on the floor—salt, paint, sugar, whatever—you do not step over it.) The slightly fuzzy audio over the whole thing is a bit reminiscent of the poem recited over the first trailer for 28 Years Later, though I am fairly sure there are no zombies here. Hokum is in theaters May 1st, 2026.[end-mark] The post Adam Scott Is on a Terrible Irish Vacation in the Teaser Trailer for <i>Hokum</i> appeared first on Reactor.