Hokum
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch. When Ohm Bauman, a horror novelist, retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter…
Hokum
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch. When Ohm Bauman, a horror novelist, retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance force him to confront the dark corners of his past. Inspired by an old photograph of his mother and an otherworldly visitation in his dreams, Ohm decides to visit the secluded Bilberry Woods Hotel in Ireland. After all, his late parents honeymooned there; this is the ideal place to seek inspiration for a fitting epilogue to his highly anticipated adventure trilogy. But layers of buried childhood trauma and repressed guilt cloud Ohm's mind. And in an enchanted land brimming with ancient folklore and spine-chilling tales of mythic creatures and witches, Ohm feels compelled to unravel the mystery of the hotel's honeymoon suite. Sometimes, things happen for a reason. Does the off-limits room have something to do with the unaccountable disappearance of a staff member? Pulled into a macabre investigation, can reason explain the horrors that lurk in the dark? Ohm Bauman, an American horror novelist struggling to finish his latest book, travels to the Bilberry Woods Hotel in Ireland to scatter his deceased parents' ashes near a tree in his mother's photograph. There, he hears stories of a witch haunting the locked honeymoon suite and dismisses the warnings as superstition. His bleak approach to storytelling strains his interactions with Fiona, a bartender who challenges his proposed ending, and Alby, an aspiring writer whose manuscript he cruelly rejects. After a suicide attempt leaves Ohm haunted by disturbing visions, he returns to the closed hotel weeks later and learns that Fiona has disappeared. Determined to find her, he investigates the forbidden suite, where a discovery forces him to confront the hotel's buried secrets and the possibility that its supernatural legends are real. Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott), an American horror novelist, types the ending of his popular Conquistador trilogy. In the desert, a Spanish conquistador (Austin Amelio) and a young boy (Ezra Carlisle) search for a way to break a glass bottle containing a scroll. With water running out, the conquistador attempts to smash the bottle against the ground, but it remains intact. He considers striking the boy with it, then hesitates. The scene returns to Ohm at his laptop as he struggles to finish the epilogue. Looking toward the stairs, he sees a woman standing in the shadows. He turns his lamp toward the figure, but it disappears. Ohm opens a box of his deceased parents' belongings, finds his father's gun and a card from the Bilberry Woods Hotel in Ireland, and decides to visit the place where his parents honeymooned. At the hotel, groundskeeper Fergal (Michael Patric) deals with a goat that has been shot after repeatedly climbing onto parked cars and damaging their paintwork. Fergal refuses to drag the animal into the woods. Inside, hotel owner Cob (Brendan Conroy) tells two children a story about an ancient witch who lived in a woodland hut. He describes how she casts spells on lost travelers, chains them, and leads them into the underworld, where unseen hands and claws tear at her captives. Cob hints that the witch takes something especially valuable from young boys. Ohm interrupts the story and tells the children to return to their parents and avoid strangers. Cob warns Ohm that strangers are not the only danger. During check in, front desk clerk Mal (Peter Coonan) recognizes Ohm as a famous author and asks him to sign a book for his son. Ohm refuses and requests a room away from the other guests. Ohm asks bartender Fiona (Florence Ordesh) where he can find the great sequoia tree shown in his mother's old photograph. She directs him toward the tree, and he goes into the woods carrying his parents' ashes. At the tree, he scatters the ashes and places the labeled containers inside its hollow trunk. On his way back, he encounters Jerry (David Wilmot), a local man who lives in a van, drinks mushroom powder mixed with goat's milk, and buries a dead goat. Jerry offers Ohm a drink of moonshine and explains that goats consume hallucinogenic mushrooms and become fascinated by reflective surfaces, sometimes climbing onto cars to stare at their reflections. He warns Ohm about the danger of people who hunt the animals with crossbows. Ohm accepts the drink before returning to the hotel. At the bar, Ohm describes his proposed ending to Fiona. The conquistador tries to break the bottle by striking the boy with it, killing him, but the bottle remains intact. The conquistador then wanders into the desert and dies. Fiona rejects the ending as excessively bleak and says she would not read the book if it concluded that way. Ohm defends his approach, explaining that his stories are meant to challenge readers. When Fiona asks about his family, he explains that his parents honeymooned at the hotel and had always wanted to return. His mother died when he was young, and his father later drank himself to death. Ohm says he has kept their ashes for years without knowing what to do with them. He asks about the locked honeymoon suite, and Fiona explains that Cob claims a witch is imprisoned inside. She has asked Mal for the key, but he refuses because he fears Cob, his father in law. Fiona also tells Ohm that drawing a circle with chalk can protect someone being chased by a witch. Ohm dismisses the advice and says he would seek psychiatric help rather than rely on chalk. Alby (Will O'Connell), the hotel bellboy, tells Ohm about his own encounter with the witch and explains how much he admires his books. He reveals that he is also a writer and asks Ohm to read a manuscript he has written. Ohm mocks Alby's job and dismisses his writing ambitions. When Alby persists, Ohm burns his hand with a heated spoon. Alby withdraws, while Ohm continues drinking and working on his bleak ending. Later, Fiona finds Ohm's wallet and tape recorder left at the bar. Concerned about him, she goes to his room and asks Alby to help her get inside. They discover that Ohm has attempted suicide by hanging. Fiona cuts him down, and Ohm survives. During the ensuing visions, he sees his mother and experiences disturbing images associated with the hotel. Weeks later, Ohm returns to the hotel, which has closed for the season, to collect his belongings. Mal tells him that Fiona saved his life, prompting Ohm to ask where she is so he can thank her. Mal reveals that Fiona has been missing since Halloween. He says she was last seen at a party and that the police suspect Jerry, who disappeared after his wife died. Fergal confirms that he saw Fiona speaking with Jerry before she vanished. Ohm asks whether anyone searched the honeymoon suite, but Fergal insists that the room is always locked and warns him to return home. Ohm refuses to abandon the question of Fiona's disappearance. Searching the woods, Ohm finds Fiona's book among Jerry's belongings. Jerry admits that he killed his terminally ill wife to end her suffering, but insists that he did not harm Fiona. He explains that he believes Fiona is dead because he saw the honeymoon suite bell ringing during a recent visit to the hotel, followed by an apparition of Fiona pointing toward the room. Jerry says he believes her ghost wants him to investigate. He plans to return to the hotel that evening with a stolen key, and Ohm agrees to accompany him. Jerry also recounts seeing his wife's spirit after her death, when she appeared to thank him for ending her pain. That evening, Jerry and Ohm break into the hotel. Fergal catches Jerry, knocks him unconscious, and places him in his van to take him to the police. Left alone inside, Ohm sees the honeymoon suite bell ringing and enters the forbidden room. He explores its decaying interior, including the old four poster bed and the bathroom, before falling asleep. His dreams return to his childhood. He remembers taking his father's gun and accidentally shooting his mother. The visions also introduce a disturbing rabbit figure associated with his guilt. Mal finds Ohm in the suite and tells him to leave. As they prepare to go, Ohm notices the dumbwaiter and looks inside despite Mal's warning. He discovers Fiona's body hidden within it. Mal flees and locks Ohm inside the suite. A flashback to the Halloween party reveals what happened to Fiona. Wearing a rabbit costume, she drinks tea given to her by Mal, who has secretly drugged it. When she loses consciousness, Mal carries her to the honeymoon suite and places her inside the dumbwaiter, leaving her trapped below the hotel. Back in the present, Ohm finds Fiona's tape recorder beside her body and plays her final message. Fiona explains that she is pregnant with Mal's child. She says Mal fears that his wife and Cob will discover the affair, and she realizes that he has deliberately imprisoned her. Fiona tries to find a way out of the basement and asks whoever finds the recording to tell her parents that she loves them if she does not survive. Inside the suite, Ohm continues to experience visions of his parents and hear unexplained noises. The television switches on and shows a children's program featuring the rabbit figure. The figure reads a letter describing a boy who accidentally shoots his mother with his father's gun and believes his father hates him. The response offers the boy no comfort and tells him that no one is coming to help. Ohm continues searching for an escape. In an hourglass, he sees images of the conquistador and the boy pointing toward a route. Following their direction, he finds a map showing fire exits through the basement. He removes Fiona's body from the dumbwaiter and descends into the lower levels. In the hotel's dark underground passages, Ohm plays Fiona's recording again and hears her say that she believes someone else is down there with her. He searches the catacombs, finds a piece of chalk, and encounters a figure in the darkness. He retreats to the dumbwaiter and returns to the honeymoon suite. Looking down the elevator shaft, he sees the witch climbing toward him. The witch enters the room, and Ohm draws a circle of chalk around himself. She circles him but eventually leaves him unharmed. By morning, Jerry has escaped from Fergal's moving van and returned to the hotel. Mal finds him trying to reach the honeymoon suite and claims that Ohm has already left in a taxi for the airport. Mal also tells Jerry that the police are searching for him. Jerry initially prepares to leave, but Ohm rings the suite bell from inside. Although Jerry drives away, he returns after realizing that Mal's account does not make sense. Hearing the bell again, Jerry demands the key and makes his way upstairs. He opens the suite and frees Ohm, who tells him that Mal killed Fiona. Mal appears behind Jerry and shoots him in the head with a crossbow, killing him. Mal sets fire to the hotel to conceal his actions. Ohm attempts to escape through the basement, while Mal pursues him through the burning building. Ohm searches for the fire exit and tries to protect himself from the witch by drawing another chalk circle. Mal enters the basement looking for his keys and encounters the witch. She chains him and drags him toward the underworld. Ohm is also caught in chains, but the witch passes him while he remains inside the protective circle. Ohm's mother's ghost appears in the basement. He apologizes for shooting her as a child and insists that it was an accident. She tells him that she knows and that he cannot remain there. As the hotel continues to burn, Ohm uses a cutting tool associated with Fiona's earlier rescue of him to free himself from the chains. He escapes the basement, but smoke overwhelms him before he can get out of the building. Fergal returns and hears Ohm's mother's voice calling for help. He finds Ohm and carries him away from the burning hotel. Recovering in the hospital, Ohm receives a visit from Alby, who explains that Fiona and Jerry's remains have been found while Mal remains missing. Alby admits that he spiked Ohm's whiskey with Jerry's mushroom powder on the night of the Halloween party, seeking revenge for the way Ohm treated him. Ohm looks at the bruises on his wrists, which remain from the chains in the basement, and considers whether the mushrooms caused his visions or allowed him to perceive something real. Alby gives him his mother's photograph of the tree, but Ohm tells him to keep it. Alby again offers his manuscript for Ohm to read, and Ohm agrees to finish it. Returning to his own writing, Ohm changes the ending of his Conquistador story. Instead of killing the boy in an attempt to break the bottle, the conquistador allows the boy to break it against his own body. The boy then throws the bottle away and embraces the conquistador. Ohm replaces the original fatal conclusion with an ending built around mercy and reconciliation, completing the epilogue with a more hopeful direction.
Hokum
Horror · Thriller
Film Details
A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch. When Ohm Bauman, a horror novelist, retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance force him to confront the dark corners of his past.
Inspired by an old photograph of his mother and an otherworldly visitation in his dreams, Ohm decides to visit the secluded Bilberry Woods Hotel in Ireland. After all, his late parents honeymooned there; this is the ideal place to seek inspiration for a fitting epilogue to his highly anticipated adventure trilogy. But layers of buried childhood trauma and repressed guilt cloud Ohm's mind.
And in an enchanted land brimming with ancient folklore and spine-chilling tales of mythic creatures and witches, Ohm feels compelled to unravel the mystery of the hotel's honeymoon suite. Sometimes, things happen for a reason. Does the off-limits room have something to do with the unaccountable disappearance of a staff member? Pulled into a macabre investigation, can reason explain the horrors that lurk in the dark? Ohm Bauman, an American horror novelist struggling to finish his latest book, travels to the Bilberry Woods Hotel in Ireland to scatter his deceased parents' ashes near a tree in his mother's photograph.
There, he hears stories of a witch haunting the locked honeymoon suite and dismisses the warnings as superstition. His bleak approach to storytelling strains his interactions with Fiona, a bartender who challenges his proposed ending, and Alby, an aspiring writer whose manuscript he cruelly rejects. After a suicide attempt leaves Ohm haunted by disturbing visions, he returns to the closed hotel weeks later and learns that Fiona has disappeared.
Determined to find her, he investigates the forbidden suite, where a discovery forces him to confront the hotel's buried secrets and the possibility that its supernatural legends are real. Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott), an American horror novelist, types the ending of his popular Conquistador trilogy. In the desert, a Spanish conquistador (Austin Amelio) and a young boy (Ezra Carlisle) search for a way to break a glass bottle containing a scroll.
With water running out, the conquistador attempts to smash the bottle against the ground, but it remains intact. He considers striking the boy with it, then hesitates. The scene returns to Ohm at his laptop as he struggles to finish the epilogue.
Looking toward the stairs, he sees a woman standing in the shadows. He turns his lamp toward the figure, but it disappears. Ohm opens a box of his deceased parents' belongings, finds his father's gun and a card from the Bilberry Woods Hotel in Ireland, and decides to visit the place where his parents honeymooned. At the hotel, groundskeeper Fergal (Michael Patric) deals with a goat that has been shot after repeatedly climbing onto parked cars and damaging their paintwork.
Fergal refuses to drag the animal into the woods. Inside, hotel owner Cob (Brendan Conroy) tells two children a story about an ancient witch who lived in a woodland hut. He describes how she casts spells on lost travelers, chains them, and leads them into the underworld, where unseen hands and claws tear at her captives.
Cob hints that the witch takes something especially valuable from young boys. Ohm interrupts the story and tells the children to return to their parents and avoid strangers. Cob warns Ohm that strangers are not the only danger.
During check in, front desk clerk Mal (Peter Coonan) recognizes Ohm as a famous author and asks him to sign a book for his son. Ohm refuses and requests a room away from the other guests. Ohm asks bartender Fiona (Florence Ordesh) where he can find the great sequoia tree shown in his mother's old photograph. She directs him toward the tree, and he goes into the woods carrying his parents' ashes.
At the tree, he scatters the ashes and places the labeled containers inside its hollow trunk. On his way back, he encounters Jerry (David Wilmot), a local man who lives in a van, drinks mushroom powder mixed with goat's milk, and buries a dead goat. Jerry offers Ohm a drink of moonshine and explains that goats consume hallucinogenic mushrooms and become fascinated by reflective surfaces, sometimes climbing onto cars to stare at their reflections.
He warns Ohm about the danger of people who hunt the animals with crossbows. Ohm accepts the drink before returning to the hotel. At the bar, Ohm describes his proposed ending to Fiona. The conquistador tries to break the bottle by striking the boy with it, killing him, but the bottle remains intact.
The conquistador then wanders into the desert and dies. Fiona rejects the ending as excessively bleak and says she would not read the book if it concluded that way. Ohm defends his approach, explaining that his stories are meant to challenge readers.
When Fiona asks about his family, he explains that his parents honeymooned at the hotel and had always wanted to return. His mother died when he was young, and his father later drank himself to death. Ohm says he has kept their ashes for years without knowing what to do with them.
He asks about the locked honeymoon suite, and Fiona explains that Cob claims a witch is imprisoned inside. She has asked Mal for the key, but he refuses because he fears Cob, his father in law. Fiona also tells Ohm that drawing a circle with chalk can protect someone being chased by a witch.
Ohm dismisses the advice and says he would seek psychiatric help rather than rely on chalk. Alby (Will O'Connell), the hotel bellboy, tells Ohm about his own encounter with the witch and explains how much he admires his books. He reveals that he is also a writer and asks Ohm to read a manuscript he has written. Ohm mocks Alby's job and dismisses his writing ambitions.
When Alby persists, Ohm burns his hand with a heated spoon. Alby withdraws, while Ohm continues drinking and working on his bleak ending. Later, Fiona finds Ohm's wallet and tape recorder left at the bar.
Concerned about him, she goes to his room and asks Alby to help her get inside. They discover that Ohm has attempted suicide by hanging. Fiona cuts him down, and Ohm survives.
During the ensuing visions, he sees his mother and experiences disturbing images associated with the hotel. Weeks later, Ohm returns to the hotel, which has closed for the season, to collect his belongings. Mal tells him that Fiona saved his life, prompting Ohm to ask where she is so he can thank her. Mal reveals that Fiona has been missing since Halloween.
He says she was last seen at a party and that the police suspect Jerry, who disappeared after his wife died. Fergal confirms that he saw Fiona speaking with Jerry before she vanished. Ohm asks whether anyone searched the honeymoon suite, but Fergal insists that the room is always locked and warns him to return home.
Ohm refuses to abandon the question of Fiona's disappearance. Searching the woods, Ohm finds Fiona's book among Jerry's belongings. Jerry admits that he killed his terminally ill wife to end her suffering, but insists that he did not harm Fiona. He explains that he believes Fiona is dead because he saw the honeymoon suite bell ringing during a recent visit to the hotel, followed by an apparition of Fiona pointing toward the room.
Jerry says he believes her ghost wants him to investigate. He plans to return to the hotel that evening with a stolen key, and Ohm agrees to accompany him. Jerry also recounts seeing his wife's spirit after her death, when she appeared to thank him for ending her pain. That evening, Jerry and Ohm break into the hotel.
Fergal catches Jerry, knocks him unconscious, and places him in his van to take him to the police. Left alone inside, Ohm sees the honeymoon suite bell ringing and enters the forbidden room. He explores its decaying interior, including the old four poster bed and the bathroom, before falling asleep.
His dreams return to his childhood. He remembers taking his father's gun and accidentally shooting his mother. The visions also introduce a disturbing rabbit figure associated with his guilt.
Mal finds Ohm in the suite and tells him to leave. As they prepare to go, Ohm notices the dumbwaiter and looks inside despite Mal's warning. He discovers Fiona's body hidden within it.
Mal flees and locks Ohm inside the suite. A flashback to the Halloween party reveals what happened to Fiona. Wearing a rabbit costume, she drinks tea given to her by Mal, who has secretly drugged it. When she loses consciousness, Mal carries her to the honeymoon suite and places her inside the dumbwaiter, leaving her trapped below the hotel.
Back in the present, Ohm finds Fiona's tape recorder beside her body and plays her final message. Fiona explains that she is pregnant with Mal's child. She says Mal fears that his wife and Cob will discover the affair, and she realizes that he has deliberately imprisoned her.
Fiona tries to find a way out of the basement and asks whoever finds the recording to tell her parents that she loves them if she does not survive. Inside the suite, Ohm continues to experience visions of his parents and hear unexplained noises. The television switches on and shows a children's program featuring the rabbit figure. The figure reads a letter describing a boy who accidentally shoots his mother with his father's gun and believes his father hates him.
The response offers the boy no comfort and tells him that no one is coming to help. Ohm continues searching for an escape. In an hourglass, he sees images of the conquistador and the boy pointing toward a route.
Following their direction, he finds a map showing fire exits through the basement. He removes Fiona's body from the dumbwaiter and descends into the lower levels. In the hotel's dark underground passages, Ohm plays Fiona's recording again and hears her say that she believes someone else is down there with her. He searches the catacombs, finds a piece of chalk, and encounters a figure in the darkness.
He retreats to the dumbwaiter and returns to the honeymoon suite. Looking down the elevator shaft, he sees the witch climbing toward him. The witch enters the room, and Ohm draws a circle of chalk around himself.
She circles him but eventually leaves him unharmed. By morning, Jerry has escaped from Fergal's moving van and returned to the hotel. Mal finds him trying to reach the honeymoon suite and claims that Ohm has already left in a taxi for the airport. Mal also tells Jerry that the police are searching for him.
Jerry initially prepares to leave, but Ohm rings the suite bell from inside. Although Jerry drives away, he returns after realizing that Mal's account does not make sense. Hearing the bell again, Jerry demands the key and makes his way upstairs.
He opens the suite and frees Ohm, who tells him that Mal killed Fiona. Mal appears behind Jerry and shoots him in the head with a crossbow, killing him. Mal sets fire to the hotel to conceal his actions. Ohm attempts to escape through the basement, while Mal pursues him through the burning building.
Ohm searches for the fire exit and tries to protect himself from the witch by drawing another chalk circle. Mal enters the basement looking for his keys and encounters the witch. She chains him and drags him toward the underworld.
Ohm is also caught in chains, but the witch passes him while he remains inside the protective circle. Ohm's mother's ghost appears in the basement. He apologizes for shooting her as a child and insists that it was an accident. She tells him that she knows and that he cannot remain there.
As the hotel continues to burn, Ohm uses a cutting tool associated with Fiona's earlier rescue of him to free himself from the chains. He escapes the basement, but smoke overwhelms him before he can get out of the building. Fergal returns and hears Ohm's mother's voice calling for help.
He finds Ohm and carries him away from the burning hotel. Recovering in the hospital, Ohm receives a visit from Alby, who explains that Fiona and Jerry's remains have been found while Mal remains missing. Alby admits that he spiked Ohm's whiskey with Jerry's mushroom powder on the night of the Halloween party, seeking revenge for the way Ohm treated him. Ohm looks at the bruises on his wrists, which remain from the chains in the basement, and considers whether the mushrooms caused his visions or allowed him to perceive something real.
Alby gives him his mother's photograph of the tree, but Ohm tells him to keep it. Alby again offers his manuscript for Ohm to read, and Ohm agrees to finish it. Returning to his own writing, Ohm changes the ending of his Conquistador story. Instead of killing the boy in an attempt to break the bottle, the conquistador allows the boy to break it against his own body.
The boy then throws the bottle away and embraces the conquistador. Ohm replaces the original fatal conclusion with an ending built around mercy and reconciliation, completing the epilogue with a more hopeful direction..