★★★★ Queer director Carter Smith’s latest, The Passenger, is a colorful, gorgeously-filmed horror/thriller that also happens to be an intimate character study. Scream kings Kyle Gallner (2022’s Scream, Smile) and Johnny Berchtold (Snow Falls, A Hard Problem) headline this disturbing story depicting an intense rampage across a dying small town. Lou scribe Jack Stanley layers … Continue reading Film Review: The Passenger
SIFF 2022: The Passenger
★★★★ I haven’t seen a film approaching the zany insanity of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead in quite a long time, but along comes Spanish parasite-alien flick The Passenger. It somehow ends up filling that perfect slot where Drag Me To Hell once occupied as well. Goopy, nasty effects work and richly drawn characters abound. … Continue reading SIFF 2022: The Passenger