Send Help is a jet-black comedy horror that pits Rachel McAdams against Dylan O’Brien on a desert island, and the way their conflict concludes couldn’t be more perfect.
Director Sam Raimi became a horror icon due to the Evil Dead movies, but Send Help is his fully-fledged foray back into the genre since 2009’s Drag Me to Hell.
But it was worth the wait, with our four-star Send Help review calling it “a riot from beginning to end.”
The climax also also delivers a powerhouse payoff to something that’s setup by writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift earlier in the movie, so as we explain why it’s so glorious, beware of SPOILERS AHEAD…
Why that death is the ideal ending for Send Help
Rachel McAdams plays downtrodden office worker Linda Liddle in Send Help, while Dylan O’Brien is her cruel boss Bradley Preston.
At the start of the movie, he passes Linda over for a promotion she’d been promised, then takes her to Bangkok to help get a merger over the line.
But their plane crashes, they both become stranded on a seemingly uninhabited island, and suddenly the tables are turned, with Linda’s survival skills giving her the upper hand.
But while he’s a bona fide bully, as proceedings progress, it becomes clear that Linda has a dark side through the reveal of some skeletons in her closet.
And while Bradley is desperate to leave the island, it’s slowly revealed that Linda is keen to stay put. First when she sees a boat, and rather than shout for help, hides behind a tree. Then when Bradley’s fiancee locates them, and Linda flat-out murders her.
As tensions mount between the pair, truces transform into standoffs, and Send Help explodes into violence when Bradley learns about said murder, and discovers there’s a house on the other side of the island – filled with supplies – that Linda kept secret to prolong their stay.
They come to blows in that house, and it becomes a fight to the death, one that ends with Linda killing Bradley by reigning blows on him with a golf club.
Which is the ultimate irony, as Linda lost that promotion to one of Bradley’s golfing buddies, and he even tells her that she won’t make it because she doesn’t play the sport.
Send Help being a black comedy, the climax then cuts from Linda clubbing Billy, to smacking a golf ball at a tournament.
During an interview on the course, we learn that Linda has developed a love for the sport, while she’s also become a celebrity, writing a book about her island experience, that’s being turned into a movie. All of which gives Linda Liddle a happy ending that’s as sick as it is twisted, and the perfect way to conclude Send Help.
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