**Hokum — The Cursed Inn That’s Pure, Unadulterated Hokum**

"In a cinematic landscape where horror has been so thoroughly strip-mined that it’s basically a genre on life support, along comes Hokum, a film that purports to remind us why we ever fell in love with the macabre in the first place. Directed by the allegedly talented Damian McCarthy, this so-called masterpiece plunges us into a world where fear and suspense are supposed to reign supreme—except, much like the film’s own grasp on reality, it all feels a bit too flimsy for comfort. With a cast that includes Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, and David Wilmot, Hokum drags us kicking and screaming to a remote Irish inn where, shockingly, nothing is as it seems. The plot follows a writer who decides to scatter his parents’ ashes in this godforsaken place, only to discover that the inn is allegedly inhabited by a witch. Or is it? That’s what the locals would have you believe, anyway, because nothing says authentic folklore like a bunch of rural stereotypes recycling the same tired ghost stories they’ve been peddling since the Middle Ages.