Cerezo and Gómez know what they’re doing, and for those who do like their genre fare challenging, or want their scares to be combined with something intellectually substantive, this vile gem gets the job done.

Interesting but not highbrow, that's for sure.

“The Passenger” doesn’t quite transcend its basic creature-feature premise, yet it does make getting to a familiar destination more fun than many a similar enterprise has managed.

Ultimately, The Passenger makes itself passive to its characters’ reality, and in turn, renders us passive observers of the outcome.