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 gi ...