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EPISODE S2E04: "Passenger" (2026)

Welcome back to Dad, You're Wrong, the podcast where a Gen X dad and his millennial son keep score on this year's horror slate. This week the score gets weird.

Andre Ovredal's Passenger (2026) takes van life, sticks a demonic stalker in the rearview mirror, and asks what happens to compassionate people who do the right thing on a dark country road. Eric brought his buddy Joe along for the ride. Eric and Joe laughed. They were the only people in the theater who did.

Josh leaned over to his partner sixty seconds in and said "I think we're in trouble." He had a worse time than the people getting murdered on screen.

The hosts work through Ovredal's cold open and its sound design, the cross-timeline trick that introduces our leads, why the male lead refusing to gaslight his girlfriend is the smartest writing decision in the film, what Melissa Leo is doing in here, and the script-doctor ending Josh argues the film should have had. Eric thinks two-thirds of this works. Josh thinks the worst thing a horror movie can do is make you feel nothing.

Plus: the role reversal for the ages. This week it is Josh telling Eric he is wrong.

VHS Vault: A Knight's Tale (2001), starring Heath Ledger, Alan Tudyk, and a soundtrack that has no business being that good.

Eric's Rating: VOD.

Josh's Rating: Skip.

Stick around past the closing notes. The hosts run a bonus chapter on the three best time-travel films ever made. If you have ever defended Triangle, Primer, or Time Crimes at a party, do not skip out early.