{"id":379309,"date":"2026-04-14T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379309\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:23:07","slug":"nightmares-lurk-on-the-open-road-in-horror-flick-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379309\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmares lurk on the open road in horror flick Passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The open road calls each of us at some point in our lives. We simply can&#8217;t resist the urge to hop in a car and chase the horizon but while millions and millions of people answer this call every year, many never reach their destination. So where do they go&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Director Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal, known for The Last Voyage of the Demeter most recently, will soon be returning for his next horror film, a project known as Passenger. It simply looks to chronicle how a couple of drivers, including Foundation&#8217;s Lou Llobell, face nightmares and monsters while heading out on a seemingly innocent road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, it sure seems like we&#8217;re in store for a compelling horror flick when Passenger arrives in cinemas on May 22. You can see the trailer for the movie below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The open road calls each of us at some point in our lives. We simply can&#8217;t resist the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-379309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}