Film Review - Send Help (2026)

Send Help is the new horror movie by Sam Raimi and stars Rachel McAdams as Linda from Strategy and Planning in her company which gets a new boss Bradley (Dylan O’Brien) who also plans to fire her after a business trip in Bangkok but en route their plane goes down and the two end up on a Desert Island and for Linda all that time watching Survivor starts to pay off as she finds a way to survive.

Send Help like 2009’s Drag Me to Hell feels like the kind of movie Sam Raimi would’ve made in the 90s but whereas Drag Me to Hell could’ve been made in between Darkman and Army of Darkness this movie feels like it could’ve been made after Army of Darkness but before Spider-man and I had so much fun watching this movie.

Firstly Raimi balances horror and comedy extremely well and the film gets great laughs from both its comedy moments and its horror moments which really worked for me, they felt fun and gooey but also tangible which unlike so many horror movies nowadays doesn’t use the red cordial looking digital blood which many horror films use nowadays and to recreate that earlier style of filmmaking is very hard but Raimi has done it twice and very very well.

Both McAdams and O’Brien also play off each other very well, McAdams is hard not to love as she can often be a bouncing ball of joy and energy and she brings those qualities to Linda as well along with a darker side that she brings to life well also, O’Brien is also very good as the smarmy young office bro promoted way above his station because Daddy built and ran the company and at times I thought Linda trusted him a little too much given how dismissive he was towards her at the beginning of the film but the film does a good job with how that plays out.

And so that was Send Help and this is vintage Sam Raimi like Drag Me to Hell and like that film this is terrific fun, 4 and a half out of 5.