Ep. 137: Damian McCarthy's "Hokum" (2026)

A horror movie gets a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score, a listener tells us to watch it, and suddenly we’re debating witches, grief, and whether the entire plot is even real. Hokum drops us into an isolated Irish inn where a horror writer arrives to scatter his parents’ ashes and instead finds a missing woman, a sealed-off suite, and a haunting that escalates fast. We also attempt the “Irish Honeymoon” sinister sip inspired by magic milk, and it goes about as well as you’d expect when half and half ...