Hokum movie review: The entire film should, ideally, be one episode in a limited TV series.

Hokum movie review: The most ghastly thing about this horror film is how casually Ohm (Adam Scott) heats a spoon to scald the hand of a bellboy, who is seeking too much of his attention.

As you are still trying to get over the casualness of that cruelty, Hokum mounts one so-called scare after another without ever reaching the audacity of that moment.

And that’s not the only time. This dark film – in story, and particularly in treatment – gets almost everything wrong when it comes to pacing, neither giving its actors any room, nor letting its characters grow into people.…