US EditionDylan O'Brien on Playing Someone You 'Love to Hate' in 'Send Help'
Sam Raimi returns to horror with Send Help, a darkly comic survival story exploring class and power through a violent struggle between coworkers on a remote island.
- From 5 February, Sam Raimi returns to horror with Send Help, a 113-minute film marking his first since 2009's Drag Me to Hell.
- The film strands nepo-baby CEO Bradley Preston and employee Linda Liddle on a remote Thai beach, framing an `eat the rich` parable as workplace hierarchy flips into survival psychology.
- Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien deliver highly expressive performances while Sam Raimi's energetic camera work animates scenes, though critics note over-reliance on digital gore.
- Blending irreverent comedy and gore, the film generates empathy for both Linda Liddle and Bradley Preston, complicating whom audiences root for and prompting debate.
- With roots in Raimi's cult canon, Send Help reconnects to The Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell, while its ambiguous ending invites debate on class critique and craft.
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A bratty boss gets a dose of his own medicine in ‘Send Help’ : Pop Culture Happy Hour
In the new comic horror film Send Help, Rachel McAdams finds out the answer to the age-old hypothetical, “what if you were stranded on a desert island?” — except she’s stuck there with her terrible boss (Dylan O’Brien). The dynamic between them shifts and shifts again as they try to survive long enough to be rescued.Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at letterboxd.com/nprpopcultureSubscribe to Pop Culture Happy Hour Plus at plus.npr.org…
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Dylan O'Brien on playing someone you 'love to hate' in 'Send Help'
Dylan O’Brien as Bradley Preston and Rachel McAdams as Linda Liddle in ‘Send Help.’ (Brook Rushton/20th Century Studios) Dylan O’Brien isn’t afraid of playing somebody you’ll probably hate. In fact, he jumped at the opportunity. The actor stars in director Sam Raimi‘s latest thriller, Send Help, which crash lands into theaters everywhere Friday. O’Brien plays Bradley Preston, the newly appointed nepo baby boss to Rachel McAdams‘ Linda Little. Th…
This Wednesday in theaters, the director of the first trilogy, Spider-Man, returns to his first loves with a bloody confrontation between Rachel McAdams and Dylan O的Brien on a deserted island. ...
McAdams, O’Brien shine in Sam Raimi’s gonzo blast ‘Send Help’
The poster for “Send Help” advertises the film as “from the director of ‘The Evil Dead’ and ‘Drag Me to Hell’” — notably not “Spider-Man” or its two sequels. No, the kind of Sam Raimi film you’re getting here is irreverent, silly and very bloody; a character study that also features incredibly goofy scares. Written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, “Send Help” is a gonzo survivalist riff that works as well as it does because it features two incr…
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