Hokum: A Balance of Cheapness and Luxury
Hokum is an enjoyable horror film that will probably get a little under your skin, but it isn’t the tour de force that you might be expecting.

A summer afternoon: kids run wild & unsupervised, bullying seven-year-old Shiloh into a dangerous initiation ritual that will teach them all the fragility of life.
Hokum is an enjoyable horror film that will probably get a little under your skin, but it isn’t the tour de force that you might be expecting.
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