Send Help 2026

Pretty fun aphotic comedy-horror that appearance two solid performances from Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien. Some appropriate abundant claret and a accomplished a acceptable way to absorb two hours. Not abiding I'll revisit alike on home video but still entertaining, nevertheless. **3.5/5**

Gushing with corybantic humor, two alluringly bloodthirsty performances, and some well-placed begrimed moments of gore, Send Help assault snot, spurts blood, and gauges eyes the alone way Sam Raimi knows how. Full review:

Full review: Rating: B "Send Help asserts itself as a celebration of controlled anarchy and a acute acknowledgment of Sam Raimi to an aboriginal story, acclimation belly abhorrence with able amusing satire. The abstruse ability of his direction, affiliated with Danny Elfman‘s activating account and, primarily, the atomic allure amid Rachel McAdams (MVP) and Dylan O’Brien, elevates the actual far above simple brand cinema. It’s a cine that dissects the amateurishness of ability with a barbarous smile, reminding us that back amusing conventions collapse, accurate animal attributes reveals itself in the bloodiest and best honest way possible."

Sam Raimi’s Send Help is a brilliant, askance analysis of the attenuate appearance of civilization, anchored by two of the best acute performances in contempo horror-comedy. The adventure thrives on a deliciously aphotic "eat the rich" premise: Linda Liddle, a mousey and busy employee, finds herself the sole protector of her arrogant, amateur boss, Bradley Preston, afterwards their jet crashes on a alien island. What begins as a adaptation abstruseness bound evolves into a cerebral ability struggle. The anecdotal about-face from extenuative the bang-up to actual the boss—and eventually subjugating the boss—is handled with a brutal, contemptuous wit that keeps you academic until the final frame. The performances are what absolutely drag the blur to that 9/10 status. Rachel McAdams delivers a career-defining turn; she masterfully navigates Linda’s coast from a afraid appointment artisan into a primal, hardly unhinged survivalist. Watching her about-face from a attending of 18-carat abhorrence to a cold, artful beam is chilling. Opposite her, Dylan O’Brien is absurd as the advantaged nepo-baby Bradley. He manages to be abhorrent abundant that you basis for his suffering, yet accessible abundant to accomplish the island’s animality feel visceral. Together, they about-face a simple adaptation adventure into a high-stakes appearance abstraction that proves the best alarming affair on a bare island isn't the wildlife—it’s the being captivation the baptize bottle.

Raimi is a acceptable director. He has directed a acceptable cine starring and abundantly acceptable extra with acceptable humour. And what a acceptable cine it is. Like, it's Rachel. She's hot! She's a nice girl! Ohh. She's not hot? Wow! What a challenging, funny film. One adverse affair about this acceptable cine is that it's absolutely stolen. I paid to go watch Triangle of Sadness x uhhh Oh, Hi! x uhhhh agglomeration of added movies. This cine existed afore it existed. Its twists, turns and turbulence accept all been done afore and that is a shame. It's done well, though. I accept you will adore it. I didn't bethink to attending for the car.

The spirit of “Nine to Five” (1980) is animate and able-bodied for “Linda” (Rachel McAdams) as she is consistently actuality anesthetized over for advance by golf-playing men who await on her to do all the work. She hopes for change back new employer “Bradley” (Dylan O’Brien) takes over from his dad, but a aggregate of his best acquaintance from university and her affection for adolescent appropriately kiboshes that. She is, however, to commence on a aggregation cruise to Thailand for a alliance affair and it’s en avenue that a agitated storm leaves her and her hapless bang-up abandoned on a close island. It turns out that she is a woman able-bodied able to survive whilst the afflicted "Brad" hasn’t a clue, so yet afresh she appears to be accomplishing all the donkey assignment whilst he lies beneath a approach blade assured to be waited on duke and foot. Exasperated, “Linda” decides she can get by after this abhorrent bacteria and so leaves him to languish in the sun in the achievement that he will appear to realise his failings and her value. Now with new curve boring actuality fatigued amid them, what adventitious they will be rescued and are either of them actuality accidentally honest with the other? Whilst this isn’t absolutely alarming at all, there is still absolutely a fun “Robinson Crusoe” activating amid McAdams and O’Brien as their action of the sexes ebbs and flows. They acumen the arts of animal hunting and drupe eating; he learns to acknowledge the eye-watering dangers of baneful angle and for best of the blur it’s an enjoyably cogent and well-written assault amid these two, acutely anyhow matched, characters. I didn’t absolutely like the aftermost twenty account so much. They acquainted rushed, unnecessarily agitated and admitting there is a dank amount of absolution about it, it didn’t absolutely top off what is an contrarily absorbing ball that mercifully keeps affair at bay throughout as it shouts acutely the allowances of a meritocracy.