Severance’s Adam Scott Is Haunted by a Witch in Terrifying Hokum Trailer

Update: The final Hokum trailer has been released. Check it out below:

Original (March 11): A new trailer for Hokum has been released.

Hokum is a new horror movie that is being released this coming May through Neon. Written and directed by Damian McCarthy, it stars Severance’s Adam Scott as a character named Ohm Bauman.

Check out the new Hokum trailer below (watch more trailers and clips):

What happens in the Hokum trailer?

The Hokum trailer sees Scott’s character, who is a novelist, travel to a remote inn while wanting to scatter his parents’ ashes. Per the official synopsis, “he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.”

In addition to Scott, the cast of Hokum includes Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Will O’Connell,Michael Patric, Brendan Conroy, Austin Amelio,Siox C, andEzra Carlisle.

McCarthy made his feature film directorial debut in 2020 with Caveat, which he also wrote and edited. That movie stars Johnny French as a man who accepts a job looking after a psychologically disturbed woman in a house on a secluded island. Currently available to stream on Shudder, Caveat received positive reviews from critics, as it currently has an 81 percent Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Following that, McCarthy then made Oddity in 2024. Starring Carolyn Bracken as a blind medium who is grieving the death of her twin sister, Oddity premiered at South by Southwest, where it won the Audience Award in the Midnight section of the festival.

Hokum, too, is scheduled to premiere at South by Southwest this coming weekend before its nationwide release on May 1, 2026.

The film is produced by Roy Lee and Steven Schneider for Spooky Pictures, Derek Dauchy for Image Nation, and Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, and Mairtín de Barra for Tailored Film. Executive producers include Cweature Features’ Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum, as well as Ben Ross, Dan Kagan, Rami Yasin, Andrew Childs, and Team Thrives’ Bryan Meng and Dr. Terence Chan.