Movies like Hokum

“Hokum (2026) is a 2020s folk-horror that mines a Chinese-cinema inflected moral-ghost-story lineage to stage grief as communal haunting. It stages a novelist's inward unraveling at a remote, fog-drenched inn, pairing high-contrast chiaroscuro with slow-burn pacing to make interiors feel like memory-scapes. Hokum argues that private guilt and local superstition operate as reciprocal pressures, converting personal loss into an ethical, atmospheric dilemma.”