Lucrecia Martel’s award-winning documentary Our Land , American Agitators and the remastered rerelease of Barbara Kopple’s American Dream bow in limited release starting May 1, celebrated as Labor Day in much of the world. They’re flanked by a mix of wider indies from Damian McCarthy’s Hokum to Andy Serkis’ animated Animal Farm , Renny Harlin’s Deep Water and RZA’s One Spoon Of Chocolate .

Neon’s newest high-end scarefest Hokum launches on 1,850 screens. Adam Scott stars as a horror writer who visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch. Premiered at SXSW earlier this year to excellent critical response. McCarthy’s Oddity launched at SXSW 2024 and won the Audience Award in the Midnighter Section, going on to gross $1.2 million domestic for IFC Films.

Hokum is Neon’s first release under a partnership with Spooky Pictures, which has a co-production partnership with global studio Image Nation.…