{"id":478471,"date":"2026-06-02T02:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478471\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:49:15","slug":"summon-the-witch-hokum-comes-home-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478471\/","title":{"rendered":"Summon the Witch: ‘Hokum’ Comes Home Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hokum<\/a> didn\u2019t set the box office on fire like Obsession<\/a> and Backrooms<\/a> currently are, but the movie is still one of 2026\u2019s low-budget horror success stories. And if you missed it in theaters, you can soon experience its spooky wonders at home. Writer-director Damian McCarthy\u2019s third feature (after Caveat and Oddity) stars Adam Scott as an American writer on an uncanny Irish holiday, and it arrives on digital starting tomorrow, June 2.<\/p>\n

Physical media collectors will have to wait until August 11 for the Blu-ray\/4K Ultra HD combo and DVD release, which comes with some intriguing-sounding extras. Along with feature commentary by McCarthy, who\u2019ll surely have some fun tales of filming a movie that unfolds primarily in a single location filled with a lot of compressed spaces (including a sealed-off basement, darkened rooms, an elevator, and a dumbwaiter), there\u2019ll be a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Hokum, as well as the short film Jack the Donkey, A Family Favorite.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve seen the movie, you\u2019ve already glimpsed Jack in action and know his significance to Scott\u2019s character, an author named Ohm Bauman whose successful career has hit a snag as he struggles to finish the last book in his hit trilogy. His distraction of choice is taking a trip to the hotel in rural Ireland where his late parents spent their honeymoon. He\u2019s there to scatter their ashes, which he does before promptly getting drawn into some very distressing and extremely witchy local folklore. The hotel is home to creatures both supernatural and all too human, with a wink at The Shining, and Ohm becomes a detective of sorts while working through his own emotional demons.<\/p>\n

Make sure, when you\u2019re watching at home, you have the room as dark as possible to maximize Hokum\u2018s building dread and highly effective jump scares. You can rent or buy Hokum starting June 2 on all the usual digital platforms; the physical release follows August 11.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hokum didn\u2019t set the box office on fire like Obsession and Backrooms currently are, but the movie is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[81460,94796,93,94797,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-478471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-adam-scott","tag-damian-mccarthy","tag-entertainment","tag-hokum","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}