"Hokum follows a Sanderson-esque fantasy author, Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott), on a trip to spread his parents' ashes near Ireland's Bilberry Woods Hotel--their favorite vacation spot, according to Bauman. Prior to the trip, Bauman is seen struggling with writing the epilogue of his critically acclaimed Conquistador trilogy. The initial idea he has for its ending is bleak, seemingly reflecting his own mental state--and perhaps reinforcing his need to leave his home and do literally anything else."
"However, everything about The Bilberry Woods Hotel feels off, to put it lightly. Bauman arrives to find a goat lying dead in front of the hotel doors. Inside, an elderly man tells two young boys a horrifying and age-inappropriate story involving a witch and dismemberment. Later on, a bellboy recounts his own run-in with a witch in the hotel's honeymoon suite. Bauman dismisses this claim as hokum--utter nonsense born from reading too many Irish folkstories."
"Audio logs? Item-based puzzles? That movie felt like a video game."
Hokum follows fantasy author Ohm Bauman as he travels to Ireland’s Bilberry Woods Hotel to spread his parents’ ashes. Before the trip, he struggles to write an epilogue for his successful trilogy, and his proposed ending reflects a bleak mental state. At the hotel, unsettling events begin immediately, including a dead goat at the entrance and disturbing stories told by an elderly man to two boys. A bellboy also reports a witch encounter in the honeymoon suite, which Bauman dismisses as nonsense. After the ashes are spread, Bauman’s behavior turns increasingly violent and agitated, with anger and guilt driving the escalation.
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