{"id":41730,"date":"2026-03-15T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/?p=41730"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:32:26","slug":"neon-debuts-trailer-for-hokum-opening-in-theaters-may-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/neon-debuts-trailer-for-hokum-opening-in-theaters-may-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NEON Debuts Trailer for Hokum, Opening in Theaters May 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEON has released the official trailer for <em>Hokum<\/em>, the new psychological horror film <strong>written and directed by Damien McCarthy<\/strong> and starring <strong>Adam Scott<\/strong>. The trailer teases a slow\u2011burn descent into paranoia, folklore, and the terror of confronting long\u2011buried memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HOKUM - Official Trailer - In Theaters May 1\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jP2nDyQWBOU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Scott stars as <strong>Ohm Bauman<\/strong>, a reclusive novelist who retreats to a remote inn on the Irish coast to scatter his parents\u2019 ashes. What begins as a quiet, solitary pilgrimage turns unnerving when the inn\u2019s staff share chilling tales of an <strong>ancient witch said to haunt the honeymoon suite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Ohm settles in, the legends begin to take root in his mind. Disturbing visions, unexplained noises, and a mysterious disappearance pull him deeper into a waking nightmare\u2014one that forces him to confront the darkest corners of his past.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-1383x2048.jpg 1383w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-660x977.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HOKUM-Poster-scaled.jpg 1729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEON has released the official trailer for Hokum, the new psychological horror film written and directed by Damien McCarthy and starring Adam Scott. The trailer teases a slow\u2011burn descent into paranoia, folklore, and the terror of confronting long\u2011buried memories. Adam Scott stars as Ohm Bauman, a reclusive novelist who retreats to a remote inn on\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/neon-debuts-trailer-for-hokum-opening-in-theaters-may-1-2026\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41732,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41730\/revisions\/41732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}