Send Help Horror Movie First Reactions Call It Sam Raimi’s Best Film in Years
The first reactions to the new horror movie Send Help are calling it Sam Raimi’s best film in years.
Send Help will be released in United States theaters later this month from 20th Century Studios. Directed by Raimi, the film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien.
“Linda Liddle (McAdams) and Bradley Preston (O’Brien), two colleagues who find themselves stranded on a deserted island after they are the only survivors of a plane crash,” the official synopsis reads. “On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it becomes an unsettling and darkly humorous battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.”
Raimi is best known for making the first three Evil Dead movies — 1981’s The Evil Dead, 1987’s Evil Dead II, and 1992’s Army of Darkness — and the Spider-Man trilogy with Tobey Maguire. After Spider-Man 3, he then directed 2009’s Drag Me to Hell, 2013’s Oz the Great and Powerful, and 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
What are people saying about Send Help?
The first reactions to Send Help are overwhelmingly positive, with Next Best Picture’s Matt Neglia calling it Raimi’s best film since Drag Me to Hell.
ComingSoon’s Jonathan Sim said that the movie is “all-out insanity.” Sim continued, “A hilariously sharp film about the impossible task of climbing the corporate ladder. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien are a match made in hell. Bloody brilliance that pushes its characters to dark, hysterical places. An absolute blast.”
Forbes’ Jeff Conway noted that this is a “must-see movie in theaters” and said that McAdams “gives a career-best performance.”
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Send Help arrives on January 30, 2026.
Source: Comingsoon.net