Director: Damian McCarthy

Cast: Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Will O'Connell

Hokum is a 2026 horror-thriller film directed by Damian McCarthy, following a grieving novelist who retreats to an isolated inn for a private ritual — only to be pulled into a web of supernatural folklore, vanishing guests, and memories he has long suppressed.

What is Hokum about?

Ohm Bauman, a novelist still raw from loss, travels alone to a secluded countryside inn to scatter his late parents' ashes and find some measure of peace. The innkeeper and other guests are eager to share the local legend of a witch said to haunt the honeymoon suite. At first Ohm dismisses the stories as rural superstition, but unsettling visions begin intruding on his waking hours. Then someone disappears without explanation, and the boundary between old ghost story and immediate danger starts to dissolve. Ohm is forced to dig into the darkest corners of his own history to understand what is really happening around him — and within him.

Cast & crew

Damian McCarthy directs with a restrained, atmosphere-first sensibility. Adam Scott anchors the film as Ohm, bringing credible emotional weight to a character whose grief leaves him open to suggestion. The ensemble includes Peter Coonan and David Wilmot, whose unsettling turns add texture, while Florence Ordesh and Brendan Conroy round out a cast that keeps the tone grounded even as events escalate.

Context & significance

For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Hokum arrives in a strong moment for literary horror — films that begin with character grief and let the supernatural emerge organically rather than through jump scares. The story's inn setting echoes a long tradition of isolation narratives where outsiders confront local mythology, a structure familiar to fans of Iranian folk-horror and classic ghost-story cinema alike. Hokum is available on K-Time with a full Persian dub, meaning you can experience its slow-burn atmosphere entirely in Farsi without missing a word of dialogue.

Where & how to watch

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