{"id":186182,"date":"2025-12-15T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/186182\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:30:06","slug":"hokum-teaser-a-witch-in-the-woods-brings-nightmarish-visions-from-oddity-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/186182\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hokum&#8217; Teaser &#8211; A Witch in the Woods Brings Nightmarish Visions from &#8216;Oddity&#8217; Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long, long ago, deep in the woods, there lived a witch.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the ancient entity in the first teaser trailer for Hokum below.<\/p>\n<p>The new nightmare from Oddity writer-director Damian McCarthy\u00a0checks into theaters on May 1, 2026 via Neon.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Scott (\u201cSeverance\u201d) stars as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents\u2019 ashes, the staff\u2019s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Coonan (\u201cThe Alienist: Angel of Darkness\u201d), David Wilmot (\u201cStation Eleven\u201d), Florence Ordesh (\u201cDeparture\u201d), Will O\u2019Connell (\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d), and Michael Patric (\u201cFrontier\u201d) round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p>Spooky Pictures\u2019 Roy Lee (Weapons) and Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation\u2019s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film\u2019s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, and Mairt\u00edn de Barra, and Cweature Features\u2019 Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Ross (Late Night With the Devil), Dan Kagan (Longlegs), Rami Yasin (Late Night with the Devil), and Andrew Childs (The Long Walk) serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long, long ago, deep in the woods, there lived a witch. Meet the ancient entity in the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[84161,107716,146,107717,85,46,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-186182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adam-scott","9":"tag-damian-mccarthy","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hokum","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}