Should Sam Raimi send help?
You’ve got to love Sam Raimi. He’s given us a great horror franchises with The Evil Dead, his original Spiderman trilogy is hugely entertaining and his stand alone films ‘A Simple Plan’ and ‘Drag me To Hell’ are great fun. And it’s that last film that ‘Send Help’ is perhaps closest to in terms of gross out moments, effective jump scares and a roller coaster ride of just where exactly is the story going.
Send Help here….
Initially the story is one of office politics that gets inverted with Linda (Rachel McAdams) a hard working but socially a bit too on the nose to have colleagues that like her but with her having been promised by the company president ( which seems a bit of a leap as we see her working in the office pool of partitioned desks) and it’s likely only her that sees her in such a role. But promotion hopes come to a definite when the company president dies and his fratboy son Bradley (Dylan O’Brien) takes over and has no qualms in telling her so. In fact she’s going to have trouble even keeping her job as far as he’s concerned. But to placate her he agrees to take Linda on a business trip on the company’s private jet to Thailand on the proviso that once again she does all the work, writes it up so that he can take all the glory.
When all goes awry
It all changes when the plane hits turbulence and crashes but not before some gleefully gruesome death – this is Sam Raimi after all! The only survivors are Linda and a heavily injured Bradley. And now the power dynamic all changes with Linda, with survival credentials glimpsed in her Survivor TV show audition tape that the execs snigger at, now man’s up building a shelter, finding food and nursing Bradley back to health on the desert island. That power dynamic changes back and fore as the film goes along to hugely entertaining effect with amusing twists.
So……….?
McAdams and O’Brien are immensely entertaining in an inventive script chock full of Raimi trademark flourishes ( and yes, his occasional penchant for characters vomiting in the face of another a la Evil Dead 2 and Drag Me To Hell makes an appearance here to its usual half comic – half ‘Ewww’! effect). Send Help is part horror, part morality tale but all fun.
related feature : Sam Raimi brings ‘Send Help’ to London with a load of Dad jokes as Rachel McAdams & Dylan O’Brien hit the red carpet
related feature : Evil Dead 2 – DVD / BLU RAY review
Here’s the Send Help trailer……
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