Adam Scott squares off with googly-eyed menace in Hokum trailer

Hokum is the new horror movie from Damian McCarthy, who rode the buzz off his SXSW hit, Oddity, to Hollywood for an original new nightmare. Set in his home country of Ireland, Hokum stars Scott as Ohm Bauman, an author who heads to the remote Emerald Isle wilderness to spread his parents’ ashes. Unfortunately for him, TripAdvisor sent him to one of those hotels haunted by mysterious googly-eyed deer people. The official trailer plays up some of the film’s key elements, such as a mysterious honeymoon suite, a Barton Fink-esque bellboy, and the relentlessly creepy locals who keep warning poor Ohm to get the hell out of dodge. One of these days,  we’re going to get Adam Scott out of these metaphorical prisons. 

Hokum opens on May 1.