Send Help - The scoop and digest

Sam Raimi's psychological horror thriller is scored by Danny Elfman and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift.

Rachel McAdams - Linda Liddle

Dylan O'Brien - Bradley Preston

Edyll Ismail - Zuri

Xavier Samuel - Donovan Murphy

Chris Pang - Chase

Dennis Haysbert - Franklin

Summary

After becoming the new president of his late father's company, Bradley Preston invites survival enthusiast Linda Liddle to Bangkok to help finalise the company's impending merger.

En route, the plane suffers engine failure and crashes into the sea, killing everybody except Linda and Bradley.

Lowly employee and sexist boss must put their differences aside and work together to survive on remote island.

At first, things aren't too bad, but as time goes by - tensions run high.

No help is coming

 

Welcome back Sam Raimi.

Office Space, Cast Away, Triangle of Sadness and Misery? Yes to all.

Amidst the blood and vomit cannons, leads embrace unhinged mania with gusto, and benefit from a script that revels in pitch black humour.

Signature splatstick is handled with aplomb and a nightmare delivers a ghoulish jump scare. 

Linda goes hunting and kills a boar, covering her in blood.  Rest assured, quality of CG beast is way better than The Strangers: Chapter 2.

Here's the killer twist.

Linda claimed her husband was killed in a drink-driving accident, but she actually murdered him.

After adding Bradley's fiancée Zuri and hired boat driver to the body count, Bradley finds Zuri's corpse and hand exposed on the beach (a clever nod to Chrissie in Jaws).

R.I.P. Susan Backlinie.

Climax

Bradley flees to a deserted beach house that Linda took over weeks ago and takes a shotgun from her, which is unloaded.  She then plays golf with Bradley's head, thinking she's fucking Abby from The Last of Us Part II.

We smash cut nearly a year later to Linda being interviewed at a celebrity golf tournament about the upcoming film adaptation of her best-selling memoir.

She drives off in a flash car singing to her favourite Blondie song One Way or Another, giving the camera a chilling glance.

Ending is bound to polarise, but just go with it.