Dir: Damian McCarthy, 107 mins. Ireland/UAE, 2026, 15A.

With writers’ block getting in the way of wrapping up his successful trilogy of novels, successful American author Ohm Bauman travels to a creaky hotel in Ireland to scatter his parents’ ashes. Rude and dismissive towards the locals and staff, Ohm is nonetheless fascinated by the stories about the hotel’s supposedly haunted honeymoon suite. When one staff member mysteriously disappears, Ohm investigates and uncovers the hotel’s many dark secrets. But he also draws the attention of some very sinister and dangerous forces… Irish horror filmmaker Damian McCarthy’s Hokum is a delightfully eerie story, both blackly comic and genuinely creepy. Severance star Adam Scott leads the cast, with major supporting roles for Irish performers such as Peter Coonan and David Wilmot. Starring: Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot.