Hokum - The scoop and digest

Supernatural horror is written and directed by Damian McCarthy.

Adam Scott - Ohm Bauman

Peter Coonan - Mal

David Wilmot - Jerry

Florence Ordesh - Fiona

Will O'Connell - Alby

Summary

Just before Halloween, writer Ohm Bauman (whose struggling to complete his Conquistador trilogy), travels from Washington to the Bilberry Woods Hotel in Ireland to scatter his parents ashes as they honeymooned there.

While doing the deed in the woods, Ohm meets a man called Jerry who regularly consumes milk laced with magic mushrooms.

He's a prick to everybody else, but Ohm warms to bartender Fiona, revealing his mother was shot dead and father drank himself to death.

She tells him about the honeymoon suite, said to be supposedly haunted by a witch.

After humiliating bellhop Alby and his dreams of being a writer, Fiona finds Ohm has hung himself, but rescues him.

Days after recovering in hospital, he returns to the hotel and informed by desk clerk Mal that Fiona went missing during the Halloween party, with Jerry being the prime suspect.

Suffice to say, the suite is reopened.

Where memories are made

Atmospheric yes, but calling this scary is nonsense - ironically the meaning of title.

Suite is blatantly The Shining's Room 217/237, but no naked bathtub lady here.

Ohm's mom (Mallory Adams), who Ohm accidentally killed, and the witch (Sioux Carroll), serving as a metaphor for guilt, employ devastatingly dull jump scares, which we've seen a billion times before.

Of course spirits are part of narrative, but having already murdered Fiona, Mal is the main villain.

As the hotel burns, witch drags Mal into the underworld as Ohm makes peace with his mother's ghost, escaping both the basement and suite.

Back at the hospital, Alby admits to spiking Ohm's whisky with Jerry's hallucinogenic concoction and although shocked, Ohm promises to read Alby's manuscript and gives his Conquistador book a more hopeful ending.