{"id":141957,"date":"2025-11-19T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:12:07","slug":"sam-raimi-describes-his-horror-thriller-send-help-as-really-outrageous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141957\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Raimi describes his horror thriller Send Help as “really outrageous”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last October, we heard that Rachel McAdams was in talks to reteam with\u00a0Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u00a0director Sam Raimi on the 20th Century Studios horror thriller\u00a0Send Help, which Raimi would be producing and directing. McAdams was quickly joined in the cast by Dylan O\u2019Brien (The Maze Runner), Chris Pang (Interior Chinatown), and Dennis Haysbert (24). Filming began in early February, putting the film on track for a\u00a0January 30th, 2026\u00a0theatrical release, and last month the trailer dropped online. Now, during an interview with Empire<\/a>, Raimi has described the project as \u201creally outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2007, it was rumored that Sam Raimi would be producing a fantasy film with a screenplay written by\u00a0Freddy vs. Jason<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Friday the 13th\u00a02009 writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. That didn\u2019t pan out, but a decade later Raimi considered directing a Bermuda Triangle project that once had Shannon and Swift working on the script. Again, that didn\u2019t pan out, with Scott Derrickson and more recently\u00a0Marc Webb<\/a>\u00a0picking up the project after Raimi dropped it. In 2019, it was announced that Raimi would be directing an untitled island horror thriller, working from a script by Shannon and Swift. Then the pandemic hit and Raimi went on to direct\u00a0Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u2026 but\u00a0now he has circled back to the island horror thriller,\u00a0and\u00a0A Quiet Place\u00a0writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have done a rewrite of the script. They\u00a0previously worked with Raimi on the Adam Driver dinosaur movie\u00a065\u00a0and the anthology series\u00a050 States of Fright. They also wrote and executive produced the Stephen King adaptation\u00a0The Boogeyman\u00a0for 20th Century Studios.<\/p>\n

Raimi is producing\u00a0Send Help\u00a0alongside Zainab Azizi, the President of his company Raimi Productions.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0Send Help\u00a0was first announced, it was said to be like \u201cMisery\u00a0meets\u00a0Cast Away\u201d in tone. That\u2019s still the description being given, as Deadline mentioned, \u201cthe film is described as a two-hander horror thriller set on an island, falling somewhere between Rob Reiner\u2019s Stephen King adaptation\u00a0Misery and Robert Zemeckis\u2019 classic\u00a0Castaway.\u201d They report that the film is\u00a0a survival horror thriller about two colleagues who become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it\u2019s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.<\/p>\n

Film scooper Daniel Richtman recently\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Send Help\u00a0has the following logline:\u00a0Comedy-adventure horror about a female put-upon employee and her jerk boss. On a business flight together with their company, the plane crashes on an island and only those two make it. She has serious survival skills which means she\u2019s his only hope.\u00a0Richtman also shared character details:\u00a0LINDA: Smartest person in the room, but no one takes her seriously. Actor can\u2019t be overly comedic, has to be believable in serious office setting. Eyed Sandra Bullock.\u00a0BRADLEY: LINDA\u2019S misogynistic boss.<\/p>\n

Raimi told Empire that the story is \u201ca battle of wills. Its theme is that of power dynamics being turned on their head. The fellas [writing duo Damian Shannon and Mark Swift] pitched the story, and I laughed and couldn\u2019t believe they were doing this. It was really outrageous, even for me, who makes outrageous horror films.\u201d He acknowledged \u201cThere is a similarity\u201d to his Evil Dead work, \u201cBut it\u2019s not some outside force they\u2019re dealing with here. What they\u2019re coming to terms with is who they really are. And as the layers start shedding, we see certain conflicts emerge.\u201c<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really looking forward to this one, and \u201creally outrageous\u201d is exactly the sort of description I want to hear for a Sam Raimi horror thriller. Will you be watching Send Help? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n

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