The Revisited series looks back at the 2023 horror film The Passenger, directed by Carter Smith and starring Kyle Gallner

The The Passenger episode of Revisited was Written by Vannah Taylor, Narrated by Lance Vlcek, Edited by Paul Bookstaber, Produced by Tyler Nichols and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Do you ever have one of those days that can be perfectly summed up by the lyrics of Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff? Most of us have, especially anyone who’s dragged themselves to a shift at a dingy fast food joint. That is exactly the kind of day that Benson and Randy are having in the 2023 thriller, The Passenger, because anyone who interacts with this duo will have their life on contract.

Directed by Carter Smith, who horror fans might recognize from films like , Jamie Marks is Dead, and , The Passenger is a neat little character driven thriller that turns every service worker’s worst nightmare into a grim journey of self-discovery. Randy Bradley, played by Johnny Berchtold, is an introverted fast-food worker, content to quietly drift through life. That is, until his coworker Benson, portrayed by horror king Kyle Gallner, fed up Randy’s passiveness as he is harassed by another coworker, decides to grab a shotgun out of the trunk of his car and turn their little burger joint into the type of news headline that we have unfortunately become much too familiar with in this day and age. What follows is an impromptu killing spree, a road trip of reckoning for Randy as Benson forces him to confront various characters from his past, making Benson into menacing and nihilistic version of a “Ghost of Christmas Past” as he takes Randy from one location to the next, unpacking his psyche along the way.