Hokum (2026) - Drive Home From The Drive-in Review
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Damian McCarthy (Oddity) is back with another terrifying folklore-y fright with Hokum, a film that follows American author and outright asshole Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) as he travels to a quiet inn in Ireland where his late parents spent their honeymoon in order to spread their ashes. Oh yeah, and the honeymoon suite is haunted by a witch.
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Verdict: GO SEE IT. We're already calling it the scariest movie of the year, and the combination of the soundscapes and the excellent use of pitch black darkness (that definitely has a witch in it), make it a must-see on the big screen. Also, audiences will react to this one, it's got a lot of great jumps!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:05.0 | The current time is 666. |
| 0:10.0 | Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife, but it's hell outside. |
| 0:17.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello again, fiends. Welcome back to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for the casually obsessed. I'm John. I'm Kimmy. |
| 0:36.5 | And we are here, midnight, the podcasting hour, to talk about Hocum, |
| 0:41.3 | because we just saw it in the movie theater. And if we go to bed right now, we're going to have |
| 0:44.9 | nightmares about it. So the only way to get it out is to talk about it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This |
| 0:51.0 | movie's super spooky. We had Damien McCarthy on the podcast talking about how he crafts scares. And it is a completely different experience watching this at home in your living room than seeing it in a packed house with a live audience. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, so we had a screener for the film because we wanted to do the interview. And I knew right away, as soon as we were |
| 1:12.0 | finished the movie, we're still seeing this in the theater when it comes out, because one, the sound |
| 1:17.8 | is super atmospheric. And I think we both assumed that a lot of the scares were going to hit |
| 1:24.0 | harder in the theater purely because the sound would have been all-encompassing. |
| 1:28.3 | And that was correct. |
| 1:29.9 | And it's also a very dark movie, and it is a very scary movie. |
| 1:35.8 | And it was also very scary in the theater. |
| 1:39.0 | Very, very scary. |
| 1:40.8 | Your second point was in there somewhere? |
| 1:42.0 | Like, number two, it's also a very dark movie. Dark was my second point. |
| 1:46.0 | Got it. Yeah. The movie is so great at building atmosphere that the sound of just a clock |
| 1:51.7 | striking got somebody in our audience. They were like, oh, God. And then we all laughed. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. Everybody in the audience laughed at them, but we were all like, you're a good guy. |
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