Hokum : ce qu'il faut savoir

Hokum gives you a taste of one tormented scribe’s fiction before introducing you to the man behind the keyboard. Hokum s'impose comme l'un des sujets qui mobilisent l'attention en United States ce jeudi.

Les faits

• Hokum gives you a taste of one tormented scribe’s fiction before introducing you to the man behind the keyboard.
• The Severance lead is back in the realm of scares with the Irish folklore film Hokum.
• “Hokum,” McCarthy’s third and most accomplished feature, continues this tradition.
• Hokum opens in theaters on May 1st, and Scott plays a novelist named Ohm who ventures to a quaint hotel in Ireland to spread his parents’ ashes.
• Adam Scott is perfection as a damaged writer battling an ancient witch and his own demons in this hugely enjoyable chiller.

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, the Severance lead is back in the realm of scares with the Irish folklore film Hokum.

Sur le fond, Hokum opens in theaters on May 1st, and Scott plays a novelist named Ohm who ventures to a quaint hotel in Ireland to spread his parents’ ashes.

Concrètement, Adam Scott is perfection as a damaged writer battling an ancient witch and his own demons in this hugely enjoyable chiller.

Au-delà de ce constat, the Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy, in common with his genre colleague Osgood Perkins, likes to seed familiar horror setups with moments of ludicrousness that destabilize his scares and discombobulate his viewers.

Reste à préciser que Very little in his movies can be taken at face value — not even their titles, which announce themselves with winking humility.

Les chiffres

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À ce stade, McCarthy’s previous movie, Oddity (2024), involved a mystery, a M.I.A. woman, and various supernatural happenings in symbolically shadowy corridors and dark corners as well, though that was the sort of horror outing that, as a whole, never quite added up to the sum of its jump scares.

Ce qui se dit

“Hokum,” McCarthy’s third and most accomplished feature, continues this tradition.

“It’s kind of the opposite of the arc in most horror movies,” he says. “Usually a character starts out somewhat innocent and becomes hardened, and this character softens over the course of the movie, and he learns that it might be worth it to save himself and continue living.”

“I really depend upon the other actors,” he says. “Usually you find the tone and tenor of a scene with the other actor or actors, you’re all bouncing off of each other.

Le contexte

Reste à préciser que the 'Severance' star goes darker than usual in this tale of haunted hotels, Irish folklore, and a missing woman.

À noter par ailleurs : a child, face covered in dirt, trudges behind him.

Plus précisément, There’s a map, leading to treasure (we assume), stuck in a bottle.

Dans la foulée, the only way to get it out, apparently, is to break the bottle open, but on what?

À ce stade, the lost soul focuses on the only thing hard enough to shatter glass: The boy’s skull.

Recherches associées

Plusieurs requêtes connexes accompagnent ce sujet : Nos critiques des sorties cinéma de la semaine : «Dao», «Le Diable s’habille en Prada 2», «Hokum»… • « Hokum » : la petite mécanique bien huilée de l’horreur • «Hokum», la réussite de Damian McCarthy : boule de flippant • « Hokum » : une bonne peur bleue dans l’esprit de « Shining » • « Le diable s’habille en Prada 2 », « Sorda », « Hokum», « Vivaldi et moi »… Les films à voir (ou à éviter) cette semaine • Le Diable s’habille en Prada 2, Hokum, Die my love : les nouveautés au cinéma cette semaine.

À retenir

• The Severance lead is back in the realm of scares with the Irish folklore film Hokum.
• The Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy, in common with his genre colleague Osgood Perkins, likes to seed familiar horror setups with moments of ludicrousness that destabilize his scares and discombobulate his viewers.
• The 'Severance' star goes darker than usual in this tale of haunted hotels, Irish folklore, and a missing woman.
• Recherches qui explosent : Nos critiques des sorties cinéma de la semaine : «Dao», «Le Diable s’habille en Prada 2», «Hokum»…, « Hokum » : la petite mécanique bien huilée de l’horreur, «Hokum», la réussite de Damian McCarthy : boule de flippant, « Hokum » : une bonne peur bleue dans l’esprit de « Shining ».