Passenger

PASSENGER
Director ~ André Øvredal
Writers ~ Zachary Donohue, T.W. Burgess
2026, US
Stars ~ Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Melissa Leo

André Øvredal has submitted fun and agreeable horrors before (‘Troll Hunter’, ‘The Autopsy of Jane Joe’, ‘Scary Stories to tell in the Dark’ and ‘The last Voyage of the Demeter’, although I understand I saw an edit of the latter that was much better than what you’ll currently find)  but ‘Passenger’ is mostly dull and rote with an underwhelming characters, a meagre malevolent entity and laughable St. Christopher hocus pocus. It contains one vivid “outdoor cinema in the woods” sequence where Øvredal gets to show what he can really do and almost making this worth the pitstop, but it is tired folk horror stuff with a cruel rule of “Just don’t stop to help” and resolved by simply conforming.