{"id":379423,"date":"2026-04-14T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:11:08","slug":"trailer-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379423\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer: PASSENGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/punchdrunkcritics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pdc_passenger1.jpg?fit=1200%2C502&amp;ssl=1\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"291\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pdc_passenger1.jpg\"   alt=\"PASSENGER opens on May 22nd\" title=\"pdc_passenger1\"\/><\/a>            <\/p>\n<p>The new trailer for Passenger ominously warns that \u201c130 million people take road trips every year; 15,400 of them are never seen again.\u201d\u00a0 As someone who listens to way too many murder podcasts each day, I totally buy into this number. This central idea is at the heart of Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal\u2019s film about a couple who find that van life is more dangerous than they ever bargained for.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger stars Lou Llobell (Foundation) and Jacob Scipio (Bad Boys for Life), along with Oscar winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter).\u00a0 Based on the new trailer and the below synopsis, it kinda sounds like a mix of It Follows and The Hitcher.<\/p>\n<p>SYNOPSIS: \u201cA few weeks into their van life adventure, a young couple witnesses a horrific accident that leaves the driver dead. Soon they\u2019re being pursued by a demonic stalker who\u2019s impossible to outrun and follows them wherever they go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8vredal most recently directed The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which took a small chapter from Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula and expanded it into a terrifying vampire horror on the high seas. He also directed Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, all extremely popular with the genre crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount will release Passenger in theaters on May 22nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new trailer for Passenger ominously warns that \u201c130 million people take road trips every year; 15,400 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[197507,156,64139,197508,141721,409,111,139,69,14734],"class_list":{"0":"post-379423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-andre-ovredal","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jacob-scipio","11":"tag-lou-llobell","12":"tag-melissa-leo","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-passenger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379423","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=379423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}