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What You Need To Know:
PASSENGER is a pretty scary, well-made horror movie. The movie’s two romantic heroes never know when or how the demonic villain is ever going to strike. Even better, they use their St. Christopher medal, which has a prayer on the back, to fend off the villain. Also, they eventually find sanctuary at an old Christian church in the desert that someone mentions to them. The person also tells them the ground around the church is “holy ground.” So, PASSENGER has a strong Christian premise and worldview that makes it one of the more redemptive horror movies released by Hollywood recently. That said, the movie marred by more than 25 obscenities, including about 16 “f” words. It also has some gruesome violence.
Content:
Strong Christian premise and worldview where a Christian church becomes a sanctuary that may help the move’s heroic couple overcome the story’s demonic villain may be overcome, the engaged couple traveling in an RV has become the target of that demonic villain and they rely on a St. Christopher medal and traveling prayer to fight the villain and St. Christopher becomes a big part of the church as a sanctuary, and the ground around the church is called “holy ground,” but the movie is marred by pagan and occult superstition and the engaged couple have no faith to ground them other than what the St. Christopher medals/prayer and the idea of the church as a sanctuary teach them during the story;
About 27 obscenities (including about 16 “f” words) and 12 light profanities, such as OMG;
Some extreme scary violence such as a demonic entity throws a victim through a car windshield and grabs another victim by the forehead to split their head in half and lots of strong scary violence such as demonic entity drags a woman away, the entity tries to strangle the woman to death in one scene but a St. Christopher’s medal burns its creepy hand, the entity’s creepy face appears out of nowhere to scare people, the entity shakes an RV to scare the two people inside it, the entity lifts people’s bodies into the air and tosses them back down, etc.;
A scene of implied fornication and the unmarried couple in the story have been living in an apartment together, and, in the movie, they end their lease and go traveling the country in an RV as an engaged couple (the young man proposes on their first night together);
No nudity;
Brief alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs; and,
People are too scared to help a young couple that’s been targeted by a demonic entity.
More Detail:
The movie opens with two men driving a lonely country road. The driver wakes up the his friend in the passenger’s seat because he’s having trouble staying awake. He needs someone to talk with him. His friend has a big cup of water to wet his whistle frequently, but denies that he’s going to have to relieve himself before they get to their destination.
Sure enough, however, a few minutes later, he forces his friend to stop so he can go relieve himself in the woods. However, when he returns to the car, the driver has disappeared. Suddenly, he’s startled when the driver’s body plunges through the windshield. Outside the car, there’s a shadowy figure of a man with some kind of demonic powers who attacks the driver, then his friend.
Cut to New York City where a young couple, Maddie and Tyler, leaving their apartment to travel the country in Tyler’s new RV. Traveling the country in an RV has always been Tyler’s dream, because he’s always wanted to get away from his bickering parents.
The first night out, they stop in residential neighborhood for the night. Tyler proposes to Maddie, but before she can say yes, a neighborhood watch man pounds on their door and orders them to leave. While they hustle to leave, Maddie says yes.
Three months later, they’re traveling a lonely country road when an angry driver passes them by and blows his horn. Moments later, they find the other car has crashed into a tree. They call 911 and leave the RV to see to the driver. The driver starts to crawl out but then is pulled back into the vehicle. Maddie glances inside the car only to see the driver slumped against the airbag attached to the steering wheel.
After the police and an ambulance arrive, Maddie notices three claw mark on the car’s hood. She doesn’t think much about it until the same three marks show up on Tyler’s RV. Things start to get even more weird when Maddie starts to see the shadowy figure of a man stalking her. A creepy face also suddenly appears in one scene. Then, the shadowy man tries to strangle her, but is scared away when the St. Christopher medal Tyler gave Maddie touches the creepy man’s hand.
Meanwhile, a middle aged woman named Diane at an RV camp warns people about traveling the road at night. Don’t stop for anything, she warns sternly.
Maddie starts doing some Internet research and runs across stories about a demonic entity targeting travelers called The Passenger. One night, she and Tyler stop the RV to watch “Roman Holiday,” the acclaimed 1953 comedy starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. The demonic face and shadowy figure of The Passenger appears and starts attacking Maddie and Tyler. Will they survive?
PASSENGER is a pretty scary, well-made horror movie. The movie’s two romantic heroes never know when or how the demonic villain is ever going to strike. Even better, they use their St. Christopher medal, which has a prayer on the back, to fend off the villain. Also, they eventually find sanctuary at an old Christian church in the desert that Diane mentions to them. Diane also tells them that the ground around the church is “holy ground.”
So, PASSENGER has a strong Christian premise and worldview that makes it one of the more redemptive horror movies released by Hollywood. That said, the movie marred by more than 25 obscenities, including about 16 “f” words. It also has some gruesome violence.
