"When it comes to director Sam Raimi's films, you have to go into the theater understanding that you're about to experience a piece of cinema that vacillates between being absolute batshit and utterly sublime. Though Send Help is much more grounded than the projects he's best known for, like The Evil Dead or Drag Me to Hell, it's a quintessential Raimi film that makes no pretense of hiding how unhinged and disturbing its story is going to be."
"On more than one occasion, Send Help almost feels like a live-action cartoon. Its heavy-handed foreshadowing and ridiculous set pieces are meant to leave you wincing in horror before making you laugh at how ridiculous they are. But for all of its outlandishness, there's something deeply relatable about the conflict that sets Send Help into motion and message and the way it depicts the horrors of working for a terrible boss."
"Though most of Send Help 's story unfolds on a glamorous, deserted island somewhere in the middle of the ocean, the movie opens in a joyless office where Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) works as the head of planning and strategy. After dedicating years of her life to the company and saving it untold amounts of money with her expertise, Linda and one of her kinder coworkers, Franklin (Dennis Haysbert), know that she has been promised a much-deserved promotion by their boss."
Send Help balances unhinged horror and sublime moments with dark comedy reflective of Sam Raimi's style. The film alternates between cartoonish set pieces, heavy-handed foreshadowing, and genuinely disturbing shocks while grounding its conflict in relatable workplace abuse. Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) heads planning and strategy and has spent years saving the company money through her expertise. After the elderly founder's unexpected death, the business passes to his boorish son Bradley (Dylan O'Brien), who awards himself the executive role Linda was promised. Heartbroken but tenacious, Linda confronts Bradley, and he agrees to consider her if she accompanies him and several male executives.
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