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‘Hokum’ – Bloody Disgusting Presents FREE Sneak Screenings of Damian McCarthy’s Haunted Hotel Horror
Let’s get the bad news out of the way: Damian McCarthy‘s Hokum doesn’t hit theaters until May 1 via Neon. The haunted hotel horror movie conjures up freaky folklore, unprecedented scares, and characters straight out of your nightmares. It’s not just one of this year’s most anticipated horror films — it’s also one of our favorites.
So, here’s the good news: We’ve got the free early ticket for you this month.
On Tuesday, April 21st, our readers in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia can see McCarthy’s highly anticipated followup to Oddity before anyone else. All showings begin at 7PM and guests are asked to arrive early as these screenings are first come and first served. RSVP now before it’s too late (we will close the lists when the demand gets too high — and it will).
Phoenix, AZ @ Harkins Tempe Marketplace
Houston, TX @ Regal Edwards Houston Marq’E
Atlanta, GA @ AMC Madison Yards
Philadelphia, PA @ AMC Dine-In Fashion District 8
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Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes at the place they first met, the staff’s tales of hauntings in the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) round out the cast.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
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.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her 4.5-skull review out of SXSW, “McCarthy dangles close to the precipice of bleakness, but ultimately rewards with a magical story about storytelling and the ability to heal. Hokum just also happens to be really freaking scary.”
Hokum is rated R for “some violent/disturbing content and language.”
Whatever you do, Don’t Move: the trailer for the arachnid monster movie from the mind of “Impractical Jokers” star James “Murr” Murray has arrived.
Tickets are on sale now for the Kansas City premiere of Don’t Move at the Midland Theater on September 8 and the Los Angeles premiere at the TCL Chinese Theater on September 9, ahead of Don’t Move‘s theatrical release on September 11.
The upcoming creature feature adapts the 2020 novel of the same name from co-authors Murray and Darren Wearmouth.
Maclain Nelson (Vamp U) directed from the script he co-wrote with Murray and Wearmouth.
In Don’t Move, a church group’s annual retreat turns deadly when they wander into the wrong part of the Ozark wilderness, and something starts picking them off one by one.
Suspicion falls on Ricky (Russell “Russ” Vitale), the troublemaker of the group. But the real threat is far worse. Deep in the forest, wrapped in a labyrinth of webs, the group is pursued by a terrifying prehistoric arachnid that hunts by vibration. When every step could be their last, they only have one choice: Don’t Move.
It’s up to Megan (Lyndsy Fonseca) to hold what’s left of the group together and get them out alive.
Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass), Russell “Russ” Vitale, and Tom Cavanagh (The Flash) star alongside Hunter King (Life in Pieces), Rob Riggle (The Hangover), and Joseph Lee Anderson (Young Rock). Expect plenty of cameos including T-Pain, Matt Biedel, and “Impractical Jokers” members James Murray and Brian Quinn.
See them assemble into an unlikely group embarking on what may be one of the deadlier church retreats in horror in the trailer below, which only teases the spider nightmare.
“It’s like an alien,” Murray told BD of this movie’s monster. “It really is. It moves like an alien. It doesn’t think as we do. There’s no reasoning with it. And that’s what I love about Don’t Move, the book and the movie. The horror mimics my favorite horror movie all the time, The Descent, which I think is brilliant. It mimics that kind of horror in the same kind of ways. It works on three levels: It’s human versus the other, which is this creature that cannot be reasoned with, can’t be logicked with whatsoever. You can’t talk your way around it, right? It’s completely alien.”
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