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* TwoFirstNames: Inverted. Randy's full name is Randolph Bradley. Marsha [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that he has "two last names, that's really special."
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* TwoFirstNames: Inverted. Randy's full name is Randolph Bradley. Marsha [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that he has "two last names, that's really special.""
* ViolenceIsDisturbing: Any act of violence committed by Benson is sudden, bloody, and very brutal. The massacre of his coworkers at the beginning of the movie is especially horrifying because of how unfortunately common they can be in RealLife, and the aforementioned NoHoldsBarredBeatdown is even ''more'' graphic.
* ViolenceIsDisturbing: Any act of violence committed by Benson is sudden, bloody, and very brutal. The massacre of his coworkers at the beginning of the movie is especially horrifying because of how unfortunately common they can be in RealLife, and the aforementioned NoHoldsBarredBeatdown is even ''more'' graphic.
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* NoodleIncident: Whatever [[spoiler: Mr. Sheppard]] did to deserve [[spoiler: Benson beating him to death with his bare hands the instant they're alone together]] isn't clear, but it's implied it's related to Benson's childhood. He refuses to discuss it.
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* NoodleIncident: Whatever [[spoiler: Mr. Sheppard]] did to deserve [[spoiler: Benson beating him to death with his bare hands the instant they're alone together]] isn't clear, but it's implied it's related to Benson's childhood. He It may be an ImpliedRape situation, but he refuses to discuss it.
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* SleevesAreForWimps: In the diner, Randy wears a sleeved shirt under a coat, while the tough and aggressive Benson wears a sleeveless tank.
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* TwoLastNames: Randy's full name is Randolph Bradley. Marsha [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that he has "two last names, that's really special."
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* TwoLastNames: TwoFirstNames: Inverted. Randy's full name is Randolph Bradley. Marsha [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that he has "two last names, that's really special."
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* ShoutOut: Benson's outfit, after he changes out of his bloodstained burger uniform, has a t-shirt of [[Film/DonnieDarko Frank.]]
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Benson's outfit, after he changes out of his bloodstained burger uniform, has a t-shirt of [[Film/DonnieDarko Frank.]]]]
** When Benson and Randy meet Marsha, Benson says [[Series/TheBradyBunch "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha."]]
** Benson's outfit, after he changes out of his bloodstained burger uniform, has a t-shirt of [[Film/DonnieDarko Frank.
** When Benson and Randy meet Marsha, Benson says [[Series/TheBradyBunch "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha."]]
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* SuicideByCop: Implied at the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Benson draws a gun on the police at the diner but does not shoot, and in return receives three bullets. Tellingly, after almost an entire movie demonstrating that this is Benson's first day of true freedom from the mediocrity of small-town life, his last words are that he was never in charge.]]
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* SuicideByCop: Implied at the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Benson draws a gun on the police at the diner but does not shoot, and in return receives three bullets. Tellingly, after almost an entire movie demonstrating that this is Benson's first day of true freedom from the mediocrity of small-town life, his last words are that he was never in charge.]]]]
* TwoLastNames: Randy's full name is Randolph Bradley. Marsha [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that he has "two last names, that's really special."
* TwoLastNames: Randy's full name is Randolph Bradley. Marsha [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that he has "two last names, that's really special."
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* BlackComedy: A fair amount, mostly courtesy of Benson.
-->'''Benson''': Help me clean this up. ({{Beat}}.) Bradley, don't make me do some count to ten bullshit. (''Beat, Benson starts counting on his fingers.'')
-->'''Benson''': Help me clean this up. ({{Beat}}.) Bradley, don't make me do some count to ten bullshit. (''Beat, Benson starts counting on his fingers.'')
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* SuicideByCop: Implied at the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Benson draws a gun on the police at the diner but does not shoot, and in return receives three bullets. Tellingly, his last words are describing how as a kid, he wanted to be a giraffe when he grew up - and that he was never in charge.]]
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* SuicideByCop: Implied at the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Benson draws a gun on the police at the diner but does not shoot, and in return receives three bullets. Tellingly, after almost an entire movie demonstrating that this is Benson's first day of true freedom from the mediocrity of small-town life, his last words are describing how as a kid, he wanted to be a giraffe when he grew up - and that he was never in charge.]]
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* AssholeVictim: Chris is a total prick, tormenting Randy constantly.
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* AssholeVictim: Chris is a total prick, tormenting Randy constantly. He's also the first one to be killed.
* BlatantLies: Benson tells Mrs. Beard he has nothing to do with [[spoiler:the brutal homicide of Mr. Sheppard]] and scratches his chin in mock speculation... while his knuckles are still bloody and split from the incident. The camera even lingers on his hands, and unsurprisingly she doesn't buy it.
* BookEnds: The first and last place Benson takes Randy after the burger massacre is the diner.
* BlatantLies: Benson tells Mrs. Beard he has nothing to do with [[spoiler:the brutal homicide of Mr. Sheppard]] and scratches his chin in mock speculation... while his knuckles are still bloody and split from the incident. The camera even lingers on his hands, and unsurprisingly she doesn't buy it.
* BookEnds: The first and last place Benson takes Randy after the burger massacre is the diner.
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* GoingPostal: Benson snaps and goes on a killing spree.
* RoadTripPlot: Of a dark variety, after one character (Benson) has gone on a killing spree.
* SoleSurvivor: Randy is the only employee that Benson spares.
* RoadTripPlot: Of a dark variety, after one character (Benson) has gone on a killing spree.
* SoleSurvivor: Randy is the only employee that Benson spares.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Marsha, the waitress at the diner where Benson and Randy stop to eat. When they first meet, Benson uses her as an example of how small-town life is meaningless. [[spoiler: When they revisit the diner at the end of the movie, she's still there, and confronts him ''furious'' with the implication that the sacrifices she's made over her life meant nothing - so Benson [[ShutUpKirk shoots her in the leg,]] setting off the climax.]]
* GoingPostal: Benson snaps andgoes on kills three of his co-workers at his workplace.
* MyGreatestFailure: Played with. Randy's great trauma, the thing that leads him to be so guilt-ridden and self-defeating, is [[spoiler: [[EyeScream accidentally taking out his second-grade teacher's eye]] with akilling spree.
catapulted eraser]] - but everyone else either thinks it's hilarious or has already moved on, ''including'' [[spoiler: Mrs. Beard, who lost the eye.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Mr. Sheppard]] is punched eighteen times, rammed into a car door, and ''pistol whipped'' in a parking lot by Benson. The entire thing is shown in grisly detail.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever [[spoiler: Mr. Sheppard]] did to deserve [[spoiler: Benson beating him to death with his bare hands the instant they're alone together]] isn't clear, but it's implied it's related to Benson's childhood. He refuses to discuss it.
-->'''Randy''': That- that guy...
-->'''Benson''': You bring him up again, and I'll kill you.
* OhCrap: The only moment in the movie Benson shows fear is when [[spoiler: he hears police sirens in the distance at the diner and realizes he's going to be dead within the next ten minutes.]]
-->'''Benson''': ''(Subdued)'' Oh, shit. Fuck. Okay. What the- [[spoiler:who called them? ''Who called them?'']]
* RoadTripPlot: Of a dark variety, after one character (Benson) has gone on a killing spree. \n The eponymous "passenger" is Randy, coerced along into the car under implied threat of violence.
* SayMyName: Randy briefly considers [[spoiler: helping out Mr. Sheppard post-beating when the latter reaches out to him,]] but he's cut off by Benson shrieking his name in a clear threat to get back in the car or else.
* ShoutOut: Benson's outfit, after he changes out of his bloodstained burger uniform, has a t-shirt of [[Film/DonnieDarko Frank.]]
* SoleSurvivor: Randy is the only employee that Bensonspares.spares.
* SuicideByCop: Implied at the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Benson draws a gun on the police at the diner but does not shoot, and in return receives three bullets. Tellingly, his last words are describing how as a kid, he wanted to be a giraffe when he grew up - and that he was never in charge.]]
* GoingPostal: Benson snaps and
* MyGreatestFailure: Played with. Randy's great trauma, the thing that leads him to be so guilt-ridden and self-defeating, is [[spoiler: [[EyeScream accidentally taking out his second-grade teacher's eye]] with a
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Mr. Sheppard]] is punched eighteen times, rammed into a car door, and ''pistol whipped'' in a parking lot by Benson. The entire thing is shown in grisly detail.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever [[spoiler: Mr. Sheppard]] did to deserve [[spoiler: Benson beating him to death with his bare hands the instant they're alone together]] isn't clear, but it's implied it's related to Benson's childhood. He refuses to discuss it.
-->'''Randy''': That- that guy...
-->'''Benson''': You bring him up again, and I'll kill you.
* OhCrap: The only moment in the movie Benson shows fear is when [[spoiler: he hears police sirens in the distance at the diner and realizes he's going to be dead within the next ten minutes.]]
-->'''Benson''': ''(Subdued)'' Oh, shit. Fuck. Okay. What the- [[spoiler:who called them? ''Who called them?'']]
* RoadTripPlot: Of a dark variety, after one character (Benson) has gone on a killing spree.
* SayMyName: Randy briefly considers [[spoiler: helping out Mr. Sheppard post-beating when the latter reaches out to him,]] but he's cut off by Benson shrieking his name in a clear threat to get back in the car or else.
* ShoutOut: Benson's outfit, after he changes out of his bloodstained burger uniform, has a t-shirt of [[Film/DonnieDarko Frank.]]
* SoleSurvivor: Randy is the only employee that Benson
* SuicideByCop: Implied at the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Benson draws a gun on the police at the diner but does not shoot, and in return receives three bullets. Tellingly, his last words are describing how as a kid, he wanted to be a giraffe when he grew up - and that he was never in charge.]]
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''The Passenger'' is a 2023 horror/thriller directed by Carter Smith (''Film/TheRuins'') about a shy fast food employee, Randolph Bradley (Johnny Berchtold) who is forced to face his fears when his co-worker, Benson (Creator/KyleGallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree.
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''The Passenger'' is a 2023 horror/thriller directed by Carter Smith (''Film/TheRuins'') about a shy fast food fast-food employee, Randolph Bradley (Johnny Berchtold) Berchtold), who is forced to face his fears when his co-worker, Benson (Creator/KyleGallner) (Creator/KyleGallner), snaps and goes on a violent killing spree.
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No relation to the [[Film/ThePassenger1975 1970s film]], or Creator/CormacMcCarthy 2022 novel.
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No relation to the [[Film/ThePassenger1975 1970s film]], or Creator/CormacMcCarthy Creator/CormacMcCarthy's 2022 novel.
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No relation to the [[Film/ThePassenger 1970s film]], or Creator/CormacMcCarthy 2022 novel.
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No relation to the [[Film/ThePassenger [[Film/ThePassenger1975 1970s film]], or Creator/CormacMcCarthy 2022 novel.
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''The Passenger'' is a 2023 horror/thriller directed by Carter Smith (''Film/TheRuins'') about a shy fast food employee, Randolph Brandley (Johnny Berchtold) who is forced to face his fears when his co-worker, Benson (Creator/KyleGallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree.
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''The Passenger'' is a 2023 horror/thriller directed by Carter Smith (''Film/TheRuins'') about a shy fast food employee, Randolph Brandley Bradley (Johnny Berchtold) who is forced to face his fears when his co-worker, Benson (Creator/KyleGallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree.
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It was produced by Creator/JasonBlum through Creator/BlumhouseProductions, and it dropped on Creator/{{MGMPlus}} in August 2023.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: To emphasise how he's beneath notice, the manager gets Randy's (Randolph's) name wrong, thinking that Bradley is his first name. This is because it says so on his name tag and he never corrected it.
* AssholeVictim: Chris is a total prick, tormenting Randy constantly.
* AssholeVictim: Chris is a total prick, tormenting Randy constantly.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: To emphasise how he's beneath notice, BeneathNotice, the manager gets Randy's (Randolph's) name wrong, thinking that Bradley is his first name. This is because it says so on his name tag and he never corrected it.
* AssholeVictim: Chris is a total prick, tormenting Randy constantly.
* AssholeVictim: Chris is a total prick, tormenting Randy constantly.
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* RoadTripPlot: Of a dark variety, after one character (Benson) has gone on a killing spree.
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[[caption-width-right:184: [[Tagline Ride or Die.]]]]
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* AssholeVictim: Chris is a total prick, tormenting Randy constantly.
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* GoingPostal: Benson snaps and goes on a killing spree.spree.
* SoleSurvivor: Randy is the only employee that Benson spares.
* SoleSurvivor: Randy is the only employee that Benson spares.
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* BurgerFool: Both Benson and Randolph have depressed, unhappy lives and work together in a fast food restaurant.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: To emphasise how he's beneath notice, the manager gets Randy's (Randolph's) name wrong, thinking that Bradley is his first name. This is because it says so on his name tag and he never corrected it.
* BurgerFool: Both Benson and Randolph have depressed, unhappy lives and work together in afast food fast-food restaurant. The other characters who work there are shown to be lazy and/or immature.
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''The Passenger'' is a 2023 horror/thriller directed by Carlton Smith (''Film/TheRuins'') about a shy fast food employee, Randolph Brandley (Johnny Berchtold) who is forced to face his fears when his co-worker, Benson (Creator/KyleGallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree.
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''The Passenger'' is a 2023 horror/thriller directed by Carlton Carter Smith (''Film/TheRuins'') about a shy fast food employee, Randolph Brandley (Johnny Berchtold) who is forced to face his fears when his co-worker, Benson (Creator/KyleGallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree.
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* BurgerFool: Both Benson and Randolph have depressed, unhappy lives and work together in a fast food restaurant.
* GoingPostal: Benson snaps and goes on a killing spree.
* BurgerFool: Both Benson and Randolph have depressed, unhappy lives and work together in a fast food restaurant.
* GoingPostal: Benson snaps and goes on a killing spree.
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It was produced by Creator/JasonBlum through UsefulNotes/{{Blumhouse}} Television, and it dropped on Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer Plus in August 2023.
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