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So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim.

Hello again, fiends, and welcome back to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for the casually obsessed.

I'm John.

I'm Kimmy.

And this week we are joined on the podcast by Damian McCarthy to talk about his new

horror film, Hocom.

Which, if you haven't heard of Hocom, is this Irish folklore supernatural horror movie

with Adam Scott, where he travels to a remote Irish inn to go spread the ashes of his parents and it gets

scary as heck from there. Yeah, you might remember Damian McCarthy's previous films caveat and

oddity. Audity is so fucking scary guys if you haven't seen it yet. I'm pretty sure it's on

shutter. So it's super easy to watch. Definitely check it out.

It was on our best of the year list when first came out. And Hocom is just as fucking scary. I would say it's maybe his scariest yet. And I'm not, you know what? I'm not overselling. I'm just going to stand confidently on that. I think it's pretty fucking scary. Yeah. What's great about Damien McCarthy is that the way

he builds his scares is completely different than anybody else. Like, we're all familiar with the

James Wan template when you're watching a new conjuring movie. You can kind of know exactly when to look

away. It is so hard to predict where and when the ghouls are coming in a Damian McCarthy movie, and they are coming for you. Yeah, and that was something that was really cool about our interview, which it's good that I mentioned this at the top of the show, that we don't... Sorry, guys, there's a fucking storm. Holy shit. I don't know if you can hear that. There's a, there's so fucking fitting. It's a really cool storm right now.

The lightning is so good. Some Frankenstein lightning happening outside right now. It's super fitting, though, to talk about the scares, because that's something that we touch on a lot in the interview. We talk about, you know, where he starts, whether he starts with the folklore or the big frights that he builds. And we get to talk a lot

about his filmmaking process, but we do not spoil the film. So you're listening to this ahead of

release. The movie is out May 1st in theaters. You can listen to the entire interview without the

movie being spoiled. It'll only enrich the experience because you'll get a little bit inside the director's head. Yeah, absolutely. Like, you know, we don't. We really enjoyed this movie and we didn't want to spoil anything for anybody. Because we went in not knowing very much and it scared the pants off us. Yeah, yeah. And I've been avoiding the trailers. I didn't want to know anything before I watched it. I knew it was going to be super spooky. And it was. I knew the stuff from like the stills, and I was like, how does that make a movie? And it does. Yeah. So we're going to

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