From writer-director Damian McCarthy (Oddity, Caveat), Oddity checks into theaters tonight from Neon.
To celebrate, we have a creepy final poster, along with character posters of Adam Scott (“Severance”) David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), and Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”).
Scott stars in the horror film as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting 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”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), 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.” Are you seeing it on the big screen this weekend?
