Damian McCarthy's new horror movie Hokum may be set in a creepy hotel but it couldn't be further from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the writer-director insists.
In the latest issue of SFX magazine, which features Stranger Things: Tales From '85 on the cover, the Irish filmmaker recalled how he actively tried to avoid being inspired by the acclaimed Stephen King adaptation – and that he initially found it dangerously "tempting" to lift certain scenes and scares.
