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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Entertainment
Clarisse Loughrey

Send Help review – Sam Raimi’s return to horror is absolutely disgusting and completely brilliant

Sam Raimi’s first horror movie since 2009’s Drag Me to Hell happily fulfils its goop quota. Stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien find themselves, at various points, drenched in vomit, burst eyeball, bug innards, fish innards, and, of course, several power showers’ worth of splattered blood.

Send Help is another “eat the rich” parable, in which nepo baby CEO Bradley Preston (O’Brien) and Linda Liddle (McAdams), the employee he cruelly passed over for promotion, end up as castaways on the same Thai beach. Yet it’s been told with enough wit and viscera to outpace many of its competitors.

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