US EditionRestraint and Star Power Make the Horror Comedy Send Help Agreeably Disgusting
Sam Raimi returns to his signature horror-comedy style with Send Help, starring Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams, featuring a CEO and employee stranded on an island.
- On Jan. 30, Send Help opens in theaters as Sam Raimi directs a horror-comedy about CEO Bradley and employee Linda stranded after a plane crash.
- After a tense conversation, Bradley invited Linda on a corporate jet bound for a Thailand meeting, while Raimi, Shannon, and Swift framed the story as a nightmare of double crosses and violence.
- Hunting and survival scenes reveal Linda's practical skills, as Survivor experience helps her build shelter, gather rainwater, hunt a boar with a wooden spear, and endure a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation sequence.
- Amid critics' reviews, Send Help is being framed as a Raimi return to form that highlights Rachel McAdams's comic range and star power, making it a wildly entertaining crowd-pleaser.
- Gross-Out moments in Send Help make viewers laugh or puke, as Sam Raimi uses restraint and sharp editing to deliver stylized gore beyond his superhero projects.
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Royal Oak native Sam Raimi’s new film, ‘Send Help,’ opens this week
Opening Friday, Jan. 30, “Send Help” is the latest film from director Sam Raimi, the Royal Oak native who’s best known for his “Evil Dead” series and “Spider-Man” trilogy. The movie stars Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams (“Spotlight”) and Dylan O’Brien (the “Maze Runner” trilogy). “Send Help” marks Raimi’s second collaboration with “The Notebook” actress McAdams. The two previously worked together in 2022’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madne…
Chef (Dylan O'Brien) and Schani (Rachel McAdams), stranded on a deserted island: this nightmare scenario becomes bloody reality in Sam Raimi's new thriller – and the film can also be read politically.
The new film by the director of ‘Evil Dead’ facilitates his reunion with terror, but in a limited way
Restraint and Star Power Make the Horror Comedy Send Help Agreeably Disgusting
As the entire D.C. area lays under a thick layer of ice, the opening of Send Help may feel like a welcome reprieve, set on a sunny remote island in the South Pacific where the beaches are pristine and the vegetation is abundant. But along with his screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, director Sam Raimi has little interest in a calm travelogue; his latest is a nightmare full of double crosses and exaggerated violence. Rather than a straig…
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