The seventh passenger

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On a private flight from Maui to Denver in 1994, six friends board a chartered jet—only to discover, midair, that there’s a seventh presence aboard. A strange, small creature named Ripley, not quite human and not entirely understood, has stowed away. As an unnatural storm surrounds the plane, eerie events unfold: flickering lights, scratching in the dark, and finally a terrifying shadow creature that feeds on fear. Ripley reveals he’s fleeing this “hunter,” a parasitic shadow beast drawn to terror. As the group struggles to trust each other and survive the supernatural threat, Ripley becomes their only line of defense—risking himself to protect the passengers. But when the monster claims someone on board opened the door for it, suspicion rises and the true nightmare begins. By the end, the group crash-lands near a village of curious gremlins, and the line between worlds—human and not—is forever blurred.