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abbey | 24 | she/he/they | horror enthusiast!!!!!! ig; jenniferdeanmorgan | psn; deviant-valeska

[spookytuesdaypod]

obsessed with all the freaky lil guys in hokum tbh. nobody is serving freaky lil guy like hokum is

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies by year:

2026

[moviesludge]

YOU CAN'T KEEP HIM OFF

HE'S ALREADY ON

[viviangreeneart]

Ohm, played by Adam Scott, from Hokum. This was originally only a short study and experimentation. I wanted to work on one layer, working up from a red background. I found myself enjoying the process, so it became a finished piece.

[theviciouskind]

ADAM SCOTT as OHM BAUMAN in HOKUM (2026; dir. Damien McCarthy)

[turnipoddity]

YOU’RE DRAWING AN OVAL IT HAS TO BE A CIRCLE

[doomed-romances]

It was an accident. —HOKUM (2026) Written and directed by Damian McCarthy

[lum1natriiix]

happy iron lung day to all who celebrate

[beguilingcorpse]

[vergess]

A fun bonus fact for you: those No Longer Buyable DVDs?

They're the ONLY surviving NONDAMAGED form of the show. In the late 90s, the masters from which the show is printed were damaged with a red-pink hazy filter.

So. Good luck buying them even if you find them. They're some of the most valuable collector's items in the entire franchise.

Without piracy, there would be NO UNDAMAGED COPIES OF SAILOR MOON AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ANYWHERE, PERIOD.

ETA: Because these undamaged copies are how you colour correct the uncensored ones.

Piracy Is Preservation.

[vincedoll]

Random quick sketches

[finalgirlminamurray]

having now seen all three of damian mccarthy's feature films (caveat, oddity, and hokum) i think i can identify some common themes i've been ruminating over since seeing hokum in the theater last week:

heavy on the atmosphere and sense of dread, with quite a few well-timed jump scares

refreshing amount of compassion and empathy for mentally ill characters. olga in caveat isn't described as schizophrenic as a random lie to discredit her; we do see that she has medication on her bedside table and she does go into catatonic states involuntarily, and this is what makes others primed not to believe or trust her. meanwhile isaac is genuinely suffering from amnesia after an injury brought on by moe, the antagonist who knows full well what he's doing and hired isaac to drive his brother to suicide by exploiting his claustrophobic anxiety. both characters are working with the amount of information they have and it feels perfectly reasonable why they'd distrust each other, but i think the film remains sympathetic to both. in oddity, olin is the proverbial "escaped mental patient" but turns out to have been actually trying to warn dani about the real threat, who was a staff member at the psychiatric hospital, hired by her husband who also works there in a position of power. it's a little complicated by ivan also being mentioned to have been a former patient, and ultimately being killed by another one, but the main villain is still ted using his power over the people in his care to use them for his own ends and dismiss anything that happens to them as "patient-on-patient violence". hokum has a similar expansion on the "harbinger" archetype with jerry, and while he is also easily discredited due to everyone thinking he's crazy, he becomes a threat when ohm, who's dealing with his own suicidality and gets along much better with a man living in the woods than anyone else, befriends him

plots that get slowly revealed over the course of the movie that ultimately have nothing to do with the supernatural despite it being present, but come down to men willing to go to any lengths including murder to hide the responsibility of what they've done to the women in their lives

potentially dangerous paranormal artifacts that don't actually end up getting used by the (human) villains

incredibly creepy rabbit imagery

[hauntedhotline]

The idea of the person everyone viewed as a pest turning out to be a savior of sorts is one I’m obsessed with. No one (besides Fiona) ever gave Jerry any grace and yet his moral compass refused to let the honeymoon suite go unchecked and he refused to give up on finding Ohm when it would have been in his best interest to do so. In the end he’s shot in the head with a crossbow for it, like the goats that he shared his mushrooms with who were also viewed as pests which only makes it more special that in his novel Ohm writes in the goat/ram skull that ultimately saves his characters when they too choose kindness and compassion.

[melodramatic-wallflower]

Hokum spoilers under cut

I want to scream from the rooftops (and at Oro Bauman's dead ass) that THERE WAS NO LOCK ON THE GUN BOX IN THE FLASHBACK

Who's responsible for your wife's death, huh? The unsupervised kid with a kid's brain who was given easy access to a gun OR the grown man who left his fucking gun LOADED (bc that kid sure as fuck didn't load it) and unlocked in a place where a 9yo could get at it??

Fuck Oro Bauman, all my friends hate Oro Bauman

Also I'm in tatters over the beginning and ending scenes. In the beginning (and in how Ohm describes his plans for the epilogue), the conquistador (and stand-in for his father) is abusive, neglectful, and ultimately violent. I think the kid is Ohm's self insert, wanting his father to finally finish the job initiated by years of abuse and in some way feeling it's what he deserves. But, the conquistador doesn't succeed despite killing the boy, and he goes on to die in the desert alone. Ohm's father's life never improved, no matter how much hatred and blame he heaped on Ohm (probably because who his dad really blamed was himself), and he drank himself to death.

But the new epilogue shows the conquistador choosing self-sacrifice over selfish brutality. After the child has been neglected and nearly killed, there is some motivation for the child to do as the conquistador asks and strike the conquistador to death with the bottle. But the child chooses to forgive and embrace the conquistador, the two of them hugging. This feels both like Ohm giving undeserved grace to his abusive father AND embracing the forgiveness he's now able to accept from his mother's ghost/extend to himself.

Last couple things (for now):

Ohm's mom holding him as she bled out has me fucked up.

I want to write a long rant about how two circles (the shackles, the two cylindrical urns, the two windows on the doors to hell) represent condemnation in this film and how singular circles (the chalk circles, Fiona's tie pin, the dumbwaiter button, the circle in the sand, various light sources, the pull for the bell system) symbolize something like truth and/or salvation (similar stuff was going on with circles in Caveat, but the dichotomy felt a little simpler there--truth vs lies)

I've just seen it for a second time and may have to watch a few more times to hammer it out

[acerobianco1984]

Fear is never external.

In Clayface, it is the fear of losing one's face (identity).

In Leviticus, it is the desire to know who one truly is (queer identity).

In Obsession, it is the manipulation of others' autonomy (stolen identity).

In Hokum, it is the mourning that defines the artist (wounded identity).

In Backrooms, it is the inability to map one's own space (lost identity).

In Werwulf, it is the beast within man (animal identity).

2026 seems to be telling us that true contemporary horror is not a monster entering the house, but what happens when we lose control of who we are.

[hauntedhotline]

I also love that Ohm attempts suicide, is unsuccessful, and is immediately put in a situation where he has to actively fight for his life

[seracadash]

Big Spoilers from the the movie Hokum

At the start of the movie the ghost of that older woman it's so scary but when we know it's the mom of the main character, if we remember the scenes it recontextualize them and we can see she is just checking on him.... that was so sweet I really liked it... I'm a big fan of the rare moments when plot twist the scary thing was not really scary!! it was someone caring!! I think I only saw it in here and in Higurashi but it's so cool

Alsoooo I love the "it is magic or not?" thing going on,,, there was a moment where the recorder was activating at random moments where i was like mmmm maybe this guy is hallucinating... it would explain so many things... all the scary things are related to his trauma,,,, and then the reveal that it might been a bad trip makes sense... but also as Jerry said the drugs help you connect with the ghosts so it may been both... and in the end the witch was more helpful than villain... if she was even real.... cool stuff I really liked the movie

[wellskobblelaufeyson69]

Get this man right here a cat