Passenger (2026) - Drive Home From The Drive-in Review
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Accidentally picking up a supernatural hitchhiker sucks even worse when your van is your fulltime house. We review André Øvredal's (Autopsy of Jane Doe, Last Voyage of the Demeter) Passenger on the latest Drive home from the Drive-In episode of the Nightmare on Film Street horror movie podcast!
A couple throw all of their belongings into storage and hit the road in a souped-up camper van, but life on the road isn't as idyllic as they had hoped. After coming across a strange accident on the road a mysterious traveler seems to have hopped on board, and it's having a fun time toying with the pair in supernatural ways. (the means jumpscares. lots of jumpscares)
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Verdict: We're both on the fence with this one. It has a couple good sequences, but otherwise it's a cursey lore-builder without a cool enough entity to justify its many repetitive less-than-lethal appearances. There is a very cool lighting scare sequence in the middle that is worth checking out in the theatre, however!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:05.0 | The current time is 666. |
| 0:10.0 | Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife, but it's hell outside. |
| 0:17.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello again, fiends, and welcome to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for the casually obsessed. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm John. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Kimmy. |
| 0:36.0 | And today we're talking about Andre Overdahl's Passenger, which just |
| 0:40.0 | hit theaters this weekend. A movie that neither of us really knew a whole lot about going in. |
| 0:44.9 | We knew the poster, which was through a dashboard guy in the dark looking scared. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, it's a dark road. It's scary. I mean, it is. Road stuff, word passenger, looking scared yeah it's a dark road scary yeah road stuff word |
| 0:57.1 | passenger so you know it's some kind of uh hitchhiking whore maybe we both kind of went |
| 1:02.9 | into it with different anticipations like we didn't we didn't really know much but we both |
| 1:07.2 | were holding some hopes and dreams with us going into the theater i was was hoping maybe werewolves, and you were maybe hoping for aliens. |
| 1:14.3 | I think I was just hoping for spooky ghosts on the side of the road that haunts your car, |
| 1:18.1 | but I was thinking that, like, ooh, if I'm wrong, what it might be is aliens. |
| 1:23.4 | Okay, so spooky ghosts hanging around the side of the road while you drive past him is pretty on the mark for what the, he wouldn't say the passenger, what passenger is. |
| 1:35.6 | So how are you feeling that? |
| 1:38.2 | And you're like, yeah. |
| 1:39.2 | Feel real chuffed, yeah. |
| 1:40.6 | This is a whole genre, though. |
| 1:42.7 | The spooky ghost on the side of the road that haunts your car is a genre. There you go. There's the whole, there's everything in it. Every book you get at a roadside gift shop is 80% that. It was just like, don't pick up the hitchhiker. Don't talk to the girl who's trying to get to pop. She just wants you to drop her off at her graveside. Yeah, |
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