{"id":9637,"date":"2026-05-22T17:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9637"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:37:22","slug":"passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/passenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

After swapping their lives in Brooklyn for life on the road, Maddie (Lou Llobell) and Tyler (Jacob Scipio) witness a fatal car accident. Soon, they find themselves tormented by a supernatural figure they picked up at the scene of the crash.\u202f<\/p>\n

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Van life, as it\u2019s known, is a subject that\u2019s ripe for a horror movie. Alone on the highway, far away from normality, its practitioners are free to go where they like, yet always trapped in the samemetal box. So it proves for our newly engaged heroes, Maddie (Lou Llobell) and Tyler (Jacob Scipio). \u201cIf we can survive six weeks on the road, we can survive anything,\u201d says Tyler. Here\u2019s hoping.<\/p>\n

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Sparely scripted by T.W. Burgess and Zachary Donohue (The Den<\/em>), and stylishly directed by Norwegian Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal (The Last Voyage Of The Demeter<\/em>), Passenger<\/em> takes a spooky concept, then puts the pedal to the metal so there\u2019s no time to question it.<\/p>\n

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A fantastic opening sequence \u2014 all blaring horns, red warning lights and expertly timed jump-scares \u2014 introduces half-glimpsed antagonist the Passenger (Joseph Lopez), a creepy old man who\u2019s given to popping up unannounced in the back of vehicles. Imagine It Follows<\/em> retooled for Jeremy Clarkson and you get the idea.<\/p>\n

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Delivers some skin-prickling set-pieces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Things step up a gear when the Passenger begins stalking Maddie and Tyler. Alone in an empty car park, she finds herself menaced by an ominous figure, unexplained footsteps and all manner of automotive trickery, the camera twirling tense pirouettes around her to create a sense of all-pervasive dread.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe road can be a scary place,\u201d warns grizzled van-lifer Diana (Melissa Leo), who might have stepped straight out of Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Nomadland<\/em>. She\u2019s not wrong. While the film is many milessouth of subtle, and any attempt at characterisation is jettisoned early on, \u00d8vredal directs the hell out of it, skirting the idea\u2019s potential silliness to deliver some skin-prickling set-pieces.<\/p>\n

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If things run out of steam a little during the climax \u2014 after all, most supernatural phenomena are best left under-explained \u2014 it doesn\u2019t ruin what went before. In a strong year for original horror, Passenger<\/em> is a trip to remember.<\/p>\n

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Frontloaded with memorable scares, this precision-tooled shocker is fast-paced, fun and, at times, genuinely frightening.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After swapping their lives in Brooklyn for life on the road, Maddie (Lou Llobell) and Tyler (Jacob Scipio) witness a fatal car accident. Soon, they find themselves tormented by a supernatural figure they picked up at the scene of the crash.\u202f Van life, as it\u2019s known, is a subject that\u2019s ripe for a horror movie. Alone on the highway, far away from normality, its practitioners are free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9639,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions\/9639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}