Red Eye Movie Ending Explained: Does Lisa’s Dad Survive?

From Wes Craven, Red Eye is a suffocating, tense thriller until the final moments of the movie. Released in August 2005, Red Eye is one of Craven’s scariest movies in his vaunted filmography. In Red Eye, hotel manager Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) catches a red-eye plane to Miami. On the flight, she meets the charming Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy) who reveals that he is a domestic terrorist and threatens to kill Lisa’s father unless she does what he says — namely, place the US Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security in a hotel room where Jackson’s terrorist cell can assassinate him.