US EditionRestraint and Star Power Make the Horror Comedy Send Help Agreeably Disgusting
Sam Raimi’s horror-comedy Send Help features a CEO and employee stranded on a remote island, blending gore and dark humor to showcase Rachel McAdams’s comic range.
- On Jan. 30, Sam Raimi releases Send Help in theaters, a horror-comedy about a CEO.
- Drawing on decades of craft, Sam Raimi, director, favored a small-cast approach blending laughs, heart, action and gore in his signature horror-comedy style.
- A storm causes a plane crash that leaves Linda, character , and Bradley, character , as the only survivors, with Linda brutally killing a CGI boar.
- Critics describe Send Help as a return to form for Raimi, praising its blend of directing craft and star power that thrills longtime fans.
- Raimi's decades-long career includes hits and misfires that inform this return, as his poor reception of Oz the Great and Powerful led him to pause feature films for almost a decade.
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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…
The psychological thriller "Help" (Send Help) by director and producer Sam Raimi, known for the horror film "The Evil Death" from the eighties, which later received its sequels, will premiere in domestic cinemas from Thursday, January 29.
"Spiderman" director Sam Raimi sends Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien into a conflicting survival struggle in the wilderness.
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