A writer’s retreat to the remote Irish hotel in which his parents spent their honeymoon brings him face-to-face with all manner of creepy goings-on in a gruesome and eccentric black-comic shocker

"Hokum," in theaters Friday, stars Adam Scott giving an uncharacteristically mean performance in an Irish folk horror tale full of creepy visuals.

A writer’s retreat to the remote Irish hotel in which his parents spent their honeymoon brings him face-to-face with all manner of creepy goings-on in a gruesome and eccentric…