Hokum

Thanks to Parks and Recreation, Step Brothers and many more, Adam Scott is best known for his work in comedy. However, his hit TV show Severance and his new horror Hokum prove that he’s more than a funny man.

In Damian McCarthy’s horror, Scott plays rude, bitter writer Ohm Bauman, who travels to a remote hotel in rural Ireland to spread the ashes of his deceased parents, who had their honeymoon there.

When the hotel’s bartender, Fiona (Florence Ordesh), goes missing after a Halloween party, Ohm becomes determined to solve the mystery.

He believes she’s somehow in the hotel’s honeymoon suite, which has been locked for years as it’s purportedly haunted, and goes to investigate, completely unprepared for what he’ll find up there.

Hokum has great potential, lots of interesting ideas and a solid performance from Scott, but McCarthy unfortunately tries to pack too much into one...