7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Horror • 2026 • 108 min • Adults (18+)
Hokum (2026)
Hokum (2026)
Overview
Hokum is a 2026 supernatural horror film written and directed by Damian McCarthy. Adam Scott stars as novelist Ohm Bauman, who visits a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes and encounters stories of a haunting witch. Peter Coonan and David Wilmot co-star.
Starring Cast
Adam Scott • Peter Coonan • David Wilmot
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.1
Overview
Hokum is a 2026 supernatural horror film written and directed by Damian McCarthy. Adam Scott stars as novelist Ohm Bauman, who visits a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes and encounters stories of a haunting witch. Peter Coonan and David Wilmot co-star.
Starring Cast
Adam Scott • Peter Coonan • David Wilmot
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: Medium
The film's core conflict revolves around individual confrontations with past sins and supernatural hauntings rooted in folklore, emphasizing personal responsibility and forgiveness without engaging partisan political viewpoints. This apolitical focus on moral and emotional resolution determines its neutral stance.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
The film employs traditional casting with a predominantly white ensemble in lead and supporting roles. Its horror narrative centers on supernatural events without addressing or critiquing traditional identities or incorporating DEI elements.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: Medium
The film depicts family life as a source of profound trauma and dysfunction, with a hateful father undermining parental authority and a mother's death fueling lifelong guilt, ultimately framing biological family bonds as isolating and burdensome rather than supportive.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Medium
The film features no transgender characters or themes. The narrative centers on a writer's encounter with supernatural elements at a haunted Irish inn, without addressing transsexual identity or related motifs.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Hokum presents an original story centered on a horror writer encountering supernatural events at an Irish inn, with all characters created for the film and no recasting of legacy roles across genders.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Hokum presents an original story with newly created characters, including a horror writer and inn staff, none of whom have established racial baselines from prior source material, history, or adaptations. No instances of race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.7
6.9
Critic Ratings
N/A
7.6
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