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00:00A new Sam Raimi horror movie is always exciting, and Send Help is the first since 2009's Drag Me to Hell.
00:07So it's only been 17 years?
00:11Send Help stars Rachel McAdams as Linda Little, a socially awkward employee from strategy and planning.
00:18She's great at her job, and her boss has promised her a promotion soon.
00:21Except that boss dies, and his son Bradley Preston, played by Dylan O'Brien, takes over and has other priorities in mind.
00:31Skill, talent, and experience? Pshaw!
00:33Instead, he promises the promotion to an old frat buddy, Donovan.
00:38Also, Linda is annoying, so Bradley makes arrangements to have her transferred far away from him.
00:44When she protests his promotion decision, he invites her on a business trip to Bangkok.
00:49He says it'll be a chance to prove herself.
00:52In reality, he just needs her to get some documents done, and after that, it's off to the satellite office for her.
00:59Except, their plane hits a storm, they crash, and everyone aboard dies except Linda and Bradley.
01:06Can the two survive on their own wits and grit?
01:10Well, it just so happens Linda is a big fan of the show Survivor.
01:14She's studied all the techniques, she's practiced, and even submitted an audition tape.
01:20Surviving on this island is not the problem.
01:23The problem?
01:24Once again, Bradley and Linda's priorities might not be fully aligned.
01:29Namely, he wants to get the hell off this island, and she?
01:33She kinda likes it here.
01:35McAdams and Preston both play their roles to perfection.
01:38Him with confidence, charm, smarm, yes it's a word, and an obnoxious everything, especially that laugh.
01:45And McAdams is so good as the cheery yet downtrodden, self-unaware awkwardness, like Michael Scott, but less offensive and less everything.
01:56Raimi chose McAdams for the role after the great experience he had working with her on Multiverse of Madness.
02:01In his IGN interview, Raimi specifically talks about the scene of her fighting ghosts, and just how game she was to go with the absurdity of it all.
02:10Now you're gonna hit a ghost, and that ghost's gonna throw you a right jab.
02:15You go back and hit the couch, and now it leaps upon you.
02:18I love how she doesn't question the absurdity of it, she's trying to make it real, and trying to make it look great.
02:25And, um, I thought this is the actress I gotta work with again.
02:29The best part of Send Help? It's all captured in Sam Raimi vision.
02:33You can feel his hands behind the camera.
02:36Every awkward close-up on the tuna sandwich she hastily throws in a drawer,
02:40or the piece of said sandwich stuck to her cheek when she meets Bradley.
02:44The absurd focus on that tuna.
02:47The camera zooms in on Bradley's eye, then on it, as though to tell us he is seeing something as unholy as a deadite.
02:54It sets the comedic tone, balanced by the real frustration around Linda's plight, and Bradley's unfair treatment of her.
03:02It tells you this is gonna be a fun ride, but not without stakes.
03:07There's also Bruce Campbell, or at least a portrait of him hanging on Bradley's wall.
03:12So presumably, that's a painting of his late father.
03:15It's not a Sam Raimi movie without at least one Bruce Campbell cameo.
03:19And does anybody else get annoyed with those cameos?
03:23Not because I don't love him, but because I want more Campbell.
03:26And it's like, is a cameo the best we can do with this guy?
03:30Can we not have another Raimi-directed movie with Campbell in a prominent role?
03:34No, we cannot.
03:36But Send Help is a good consolation prize.
03:39The plane crash is a great sequence.
03:41When it falls apart, there's more Raimi absurdity.
03:44Anyone not buckled gets sucked out of the plane.
03:47But Bradley's buddy Donovan holds on to Linda's seat, and like a monster, keeps yelling at her,
03:53Give me your seat!
03:55And she's forced to fight him off with a fork.
03:57Homer, use the fork.
04:00The forks?
04:01The forks.
04:02Use the forks.
04:03Oh.
04:04It would be a harrowing scene, if not for the Looney Tunes-esque absurdity.
04:09Like how once Donovan is sucked out, his tie gets caught on something, so he's left dangling
04:14on the side of the plane outside Linda's window.
04:17While he yells at her to do something, she quietly closes the window shade.
04:22And finally, the shot of Linda in her broken piece of fuselage, surrounded by darkness.
04:28Then Raimi zoom on her screaming face.
04:31The perfect transition into Act 2.
04:34Love her disappointment when she finds the one person who washed up on shore, she flips
04:39him over and sees, damn, it had to be Bradley.
04:43But you can also sense her excitement.
04:46This is what she's always dreamed of, using her wits to survive on an island.
04:51She quickly builds a shelter, sets up a system to catch rainwater, and yes, takes care of
04:56the still unconscious Bradley.
04:57It takes him a day and a half to wake up, and he does throw her a cursory thanks for
05:02saving his life once he does.
05:05How about food?
05:06Linda builds a fire and cooks some fish.
05:08It's really fun to watch all her survival tactics.
05:11They brought on Kai Furneau, a survivalist and stunt performer who has worked on a ton of
05:16movies to help ensure all the techniques we see are grounded in reality.
05:21I'm Kai Furneau.
05:23I'm a stuntwoman and a survival expert.
05:25It doesn't take long for tensions to brew.
05:28Right now, Bradley is at Linda's mercy.
05:31Not only is she the one with survival know-how, but his leg is hurt, so he's immobile for the
05:36time being.
05:37He asks if Linda has set up a distress signal, a big fire, or maybe spelling help out of bamboo
05:43sticks.
05:44That's where their focus should be right now, but Linda disagrees.
05:48Their priorities are food, shelter, and water.
05:51Survival.
05:52But her palpable enthusiasm makes it obvious.
05:56Those are her only priorities.
05:58She's got no interest in rescue.
06:00And there's a lot of humor in that disparity.
06:03Her enthusiasm at finding the conch?
06:05Totally at odds with his deadpan, we gotta get out of here attitude.
06:09We have this!
06:12How can that possibly help us?
06:14Squidward!
06:15We must never question the wisdom of the magic conch!
06:18And I found it very stressful watching Bradley and seeing how much he gets in his own way.
06:24After a lifetime of everything he wants and needs handed to him on a silver platter, he
06:29can't appreciate what it means to depend on another person's willingness to help.
06:33So you watch him insult her, and condescend to her, and you want to shake him?
06:39You idiot!
06:40If you push her away and she decides to stop putting up with your crap, you're gonna die!
06:44When those tensions boil over, and he tells her to watch how she speaks to him, you work
06:49for me!
06:50That's what does it.
06:52She leaves.
06:53Cue a hilarious montage of the camera panning across his face over and over, with him becoming
06:59more disheveled and less confident with each pan, culminating with him dehydrated and half
07:05dead on the sand when Linda finally comes back the next day.
07:09Moments like this are where you feel Raimi's unique flavor of horror comedy.
07:14In someone else's hands, this could have been a humorless story.
07:18Dehydration is no joke, but when it's shot in his unique manner, it is funny.
07:24Showing Bradley rapidly deteriorate, we know it's montage, so time is passing, but as a
07:30viewer, it feels much faster, and that exaggeration undercuts his whole, I don't need you, I can
07:36survive on my own, act.
07:38Upon Linda's return, she finally gives Bradley water, and he's revitalized with a new, more
07:44appreciative attitude.
07:45As for Linda, she's ready for level 2 in this survival game, hunting.
07:50She sharpens a makeshift spear, and kills a boar in Raimi vision, which means gratuitous
07:56blood and fluids.
07:58And it means the boar is unlike any animal I've ever seen.
08:01It's a monster.
08:03Like something Ash would fight in Evil Dead, except a lot more CGI, but I didn't really
08:08mind.
08:09Raimi even brings back the Evil Dead shaky cam, when he shoots from the evil forces perspective.
08:14Except this time, that evil force isn't something born of the Necronomicon Ex Mortis, but instead,
08:21a boar.
08:21A monster boar.
08:23More exaggeration, which is key to much of Raimi's style and humor.
08:27That night, they cook the boar over a fire, and Linda laughs.
08:31While you were sitting there like a lump on a log, little old me was bringing home the
08:36bacon.
08:36Bradley kind of fake laughs at first, and then really gets into it.
08:40But you can detect the insecurity.
08:43And it gets at the theme of this movie.
08:45How much of power is artifice?
08:48Back home in their cushy office, Bradley was the boss, because people said so.
08:52But out here, power is not given by fiat.
08:56It's earned through skill and ability.
08:58It takes time to wipe away that artifice, for Bradley to not just see the truth rationally,
09:03but internalize it, that truth, he is not in charge anymore.
09:08Also, you know it stings twice as bad for Bradley, because it's said in that Linda little way.
09:14You are sitting here like a lump on a log.
09:16Her folksy way of speaking is an extra ingredient that makes her feel like an outsider in a modern
09:22office setting, and definitely next to Bradley, who is decidedly not folksy.
09:28One day, on a hike, Linda finds a waterfall and catches a glimpse of her reflection.
09:34She sees someone she's never met before, a confident and comfortable Linda.
09:38She lets her hair down, literally and figuratively.
09:42McAdams goes through an impressive transformation in this movie, with her performance changing
09:47drastically from painfully awkward to someone totally comfortable in her own skin.
09:52A lot of that is performance, some of it is wardrobe and makeup.
09:56She dances under the waterfall to a whimsical tune when she spots it.
10:00A boat.
10:01Close enough, if she yelled and waved, they'd certainly spot her.
10:05She raises her hand to do just that, until she thinks twice.
10:08And decides, not yet.
10:10She'd rather stay on the island a little while longer.
10:13She's not ready for rescue, even if that means Bradley has to stay too.
10:18Of course, when she returns to camp, she doesn't tell Bradley about the boat she saw, but he
10:23can definitely sense that she loves it here, and isn't really thinking about finding a
10:28way home.
10:29He can sense it in her plucky attitude, and her new backpack.
10:34Yes, she's been playing arts and crafts when they should be playing floats and rafts.
10:39He confronts her.
10:40It's been two weeks out here.
10:42They need to act.
10:43She's her usual evasive self.
10:46Sure, a raft is an option, but it's really a last resort.
10:50He's had enough.
10:51He limps off to make his own camp, which goes poorly.
10:54All the more hilarious, as the movie contrasts his bungled attempts, against Linda's homemade
11:00life of luxury.
11:01Comfortable shelter, handcrafted sun hat, an outside observer would think she's on a beach
11:06vacation, versus Bradley, trying to choke down an insect as a desperate meal.
11:11And it's disgusting in ways only possible with Raimi at the helm.
11:16Finally, Bradley comes crawling back and begs for a taste of her homemade sushi, the sort
11:21he'd have paid a small fortune for back home.
11:24And he notices her knife, the one she used to prepare this meal.
11:29It isn't a sharp rock or anything crude, but an actual, honest-to-God knife.
11:34He asks where she got it.
11:35She says it simply washed up on shore.
11:38But, after a heavy dose of starvation, dehydration, and attempted entomophagy, the word for eating
11:44bugs, I looked it up.
11:46All he can look at is the delicious meal in front of her.
11:49He apologizes.
11:50He begs.
11:51And she relishes it, making him say all the things she's wanted to hear.
11:56How great she is at her job.
11:58How important she is for the company.
12:00Eventually, she stops messing with him and shares the food and water.
12:04The dynamic between Bradley and Linda is one of the unique elements of this movie.
12:09At the start, he's the unequivocal villain.
12:12The A-hole boss.
12:13The Wall Street D-bag.
12:15We've all met that guy and thought, boy, if I had him on an island, I'd make a sun hat
12:19out of leaves and make him jealous.
12:21But, at a certain point, natural human sympathy comes into it.
12:25The guy's on the brink of death.
12:27Now, she very literally holds his life in her hands.
12:30At the office, he also depended on her for work only she could do, but he didn't really
12:36appreciate that.
12:37Now that he depends on her for his very survival, he's starting to get it.
12:41Is she due some revenge?
12:43Definitely.
12:44But, if she drags it out too long, even if he deserves that karmic justice, relishing in
12:50human misery, schadenfreude, still isn't the best look.
12:53So, the clean hero-villain dynamic flips and deteriorates, complicating their relationship
12:59in really fun ways.
13:01In terms of the movie's themes, flipping the power dynamic, a moment which pointedly
13:05captures it is in this scene.
13:08Linda asks Bradley how, above and beyond, he's willing to go for her.
13:12Earlier in the movie, she witnessed Bradley asking that of a woman in his office, with
13:17the implication being obvious.
13:19Now, in this scene, when she asks that question, Bradley starts to take his shirt off.
13:23Until she tells him, she's just kidding.
13:25She would never do that because she isn't like him.
13:29More of stripping away artifice.
13:31Back in the office, Bradley could decide a person's upward mobility at the company based
13:36on what they could offer him.
13:38Now, he sees what that really means.
13:41Controlling someone's destiny at the company is, to some extent, controlling their livelihood,
13:46which is a fancy way of saying their ability to live.
13:50Taken to its extreme, logical conclusion, it becomes a threat of life.
13:54Right now, his life is fully in Linda's hands, and he sees what cruelty that could enable
14:00in the wrong hands.
14:02Most of all, he sees what it's like to be on the other side of it.
14:06Sam Raimi told MovieWeb that one thing which attracted him to this story was the way it
14:11had the potential to swing audience allegiance multiple times.
14:15Make the audience like her and maybe even love her if we're successful, and then can we change
14:22allegiances so that the audience suddenly needs to go to the antagonist as their hero.
14:27Sure.
14:28And then can we bring them back, and then can we switch one more time?
14:32It may have been an exercise in stupidity.
14:34After lunch, Linda suggests a walk.
14:37It's tough for Bradley, his leg is still hurt, but he makes do with a walking stick.
14:42She takes him up a mountain with a dangerously narrow ledge, and she teaches her new student,
14:47Survival 101, never eat the yellow berries, they're poisonous.
14:51And see those rocks over there in an X formation?
14:54Do not go to that part of the island.
14:56It's all thorn bushes and poisoned vines.
14:59Do not go there, ever.
15:02Hmm.
15:03On their way back, loose rock gives way, and Linda falls, just barely catching herself on
15:09the ledge.
15:10Bradley helps her back up.
15:12That's an important moment for the movie, for a couple of reasons.
15:16One, it's set up, so we know this ledge is dangerous.
15:19But two, for the first time, it lets Bradley save Linda's life.
15:24It shows finally that he has some value on the island, too.
15:27And adds to the complexity in their relationship.
15:31After that, things are smoother than ever between them.
15:34She shares snacks and even pruno, an alcoholic beverage made primarily of fermented fruit,
15:40what some call toilet wine.
15:42It's what they drink in prison.
15:43So they sit by a fire under the moonlight, get drunk, and a man, a woman, alone on an island,
15:50drunk, you do the math.
15:52No, not that, don't be gross.
15:54I'm saying they share their feelings.
15:56She tells him about her drunk, abusive ex-husband.
16:00He tells her about his father that wasn't there, and the mom that was, the one who abused him.
16:06Linda tells him how her ex-husband died.
16:09Usually when he drank too much, she hid the keys.
16:12But one night, when the abuse was really bad, even for him, she handed over those keys,
16:18after pouring him one last drink.
16:21Then, two plus two equals fatal car accident.
16:24In her drunken stupor, she says to Bradley,
16:28You know what?
16:29I don't think we should ever leave here.
16:32This movie has had a lot of fun playing with our allegiance,
16:35and who we'd consider the good guy or bad guy.
16:38Now, it strips all that away,
16:41and lets us look at these two, not as protagonist or antagonist, but just as two people.
16:48Both flawed, though neither excused for their behavior.
16:52When Bradley talks about how his mother was abused by her own father,
16:56Linda makes the remark that monsters create monsters.
16:59You see how both of them, from very different backgrounds,
17:03might have a little monster in them, thanks to the monsters in their lives.
17:07The next morning, Linda catches a glimpse of Bradley bathing nude.
17:12Then, a rainstorm forces them to shelter in a cave, where they share body heat.
17:17Why haven't they just been staying in this cave the whole time?
17:20My brother actually said that to me during the movie,
17:23and apparently it was a fairly common remark at test screenings,
17:27which is why, at the start of the scene,
17:29the camera initially focuses on spiders and spider webs,
17:33before closing in on the characters.
17:35It's nasty in there, folks. You don't want to stand there.
17:39In that same interview with ComicBook.com, by the way,
17:42Ramey also mentions he'd love to make a Batman or Superman movie,
17:47and he's been trying to get a Darkman remake done.
17:50And his interview with MovieWeb reveals it's a sequel,
17:53with a script already written, and a couple of directors lined up already.
17:57Hollywood, what the hell is going on with you?
17:59Give this man more movies!
18:01This whole sequence is also just a testament to how you just don't know which way this movie is going to go.
18:07A man and woman trapped on an island?
18:10Cliché says romance is afoot.
18:12But, from the beginning, this movie tells you it's not that kind of movie.
18:17Then suddenly you have them sharing feelings, sharing body heat,
18:21and you wonder, maybe.
18:23Except the unspoken tension is always there.
18:26Back at the campfire, when she says,
18:28I don't think we should ever leave.
18:30We see the look on Bradley's face, and know he's biting his time.
18:34He is dependent on her to stay alive.
18:37So he can't kill her or anything.
18:39At the same time, she is an impediment to actually leaving the island.
18:43When the sun returns, Bradley offers to make Linda dinner tomorrow night.
18:48You know, give her a little rest.
18:49Show her how grateful he is for all she's taught him.
18:52She takes a few bites of his dinner, and once the poison hits, he makes a break for it.
18:58Sets out on a raft he's built in secret, before the waves quickly destroy it.
19:03He's only saved thanks to Linda dragging him out of the water while administering CPR,
19:07while vomiting partially digested yellow berries on his face.
19:11Some gets in his mouth.
19:13Yes, this was definitely directed by Sam Raimi, which almost adds a meta element to the humor.
19:18It's no longer just funny because bodily fluids.
19:22It also has the same energy as a cameo or Easter egg.
19:26The same way you go, hey, Bruce Campbell.
19:28You also go, hey, gratuitous vomiting.
19:31It's just expected by Raimi at this point, no matter the movie.
19:34So you're waiting for it to show up.
19:36Daylight comes.
19:38Bradley profusely apologizes and swears he really was just trying to knock her out,
19:43not kill her or anything.
19:44She believes him, but also sees there's a problem here that needs to be fixed.
19:50So she feeds him some blue-ringed octopus to cause temporary paralysis,
19:55and she fixes their little problem by fixing him.
19:59It's just like the disobedient dog she had as a kid.
20:03Wasn't so disobedient after the neutering.
20:06Bradley cannot move his head or eyes, so all he can see is what she shows him.
20:12The removal of his pants and undergarments, the knife lowering, she cuts,
20:17blood splatters while only moans and groans escape his lips and tears escape his eyes.
20:23It was getting sweaty in my feeder during this scene.
20:27The magic of sound design, pacing, and imagination.
20:30It already starts on an uncomfortable note.
20:33Bradley has just escalated things significantly.
20:36Up to this point, Linda has threatened to withhold care, but neither has done anything outwardly
20:42violent toward the other, until Bradley and his poison berries.
20:47So we're left to wonder, how does Linda respond to that escalation?
20:51And we know what she's capable of, thanks to the earlier scene of her slaughtering a CGI
20:55monster boar.
20:57It's not out of the realm of possibility she'll do something violent.
21:00With all that pre-established tension, the scene itself is built with more stages of escalation.
21:06The realization he's consumed something poisonous, and the realization that she's about to remove
21:12his, yeah, made all the more powerful by her not outright saying it, but instead implying
21:19it through all her talks of fixing.
21:21It allows for that, wait, is she saying, oh my god, she is, gasp from the audience.
21:27And finally, the act itself is off-camera, making it almost worse.
21:33When the gore isn't on screen, it has no place to live but inside your mind.
21:39Imagination is a powerful thing, which contains more than just sounds and visuals, but feeling
21:44too.
21:45So it is quite an uncomfortable scene.
21:48Until she holds it up.
21:49The results of her handiwork.
21:51The rat she cut open.
21:52Yes, that's where the blood came from and all those sounds.
21:55It was all a ruse.
21:56His genitals are intact, but the lesson is imprinted on his soul.
22:02You are not in charge here.
22:04Over the next two days, Bradley is a gloomy Gus, barely saying a word, just working and
22:10obeying.
22:11To cheer him up, Linda promises to gather some treats.
22:14And while she cuts fruit from the trees, another boat arrives on the island, this one containing
22:19Bradley's fiancee, Zuri, and the guide she hired to help search Bradley out.
22:24Such great news, they found Linda.
22:27She shows them the way to Bradley.
22:29Just follow me on this narrow ledge.
22:31The one where Linda knows exactly where not to step.
22:35Where it'd be easy for someone to have a little accident.
22:38Zuri falls and catches herself.
22:40The guide tries to help her up.
22:42They scream for Linda's help.
22:44She closes her eyes.
22:46Some tears fade to black.
22:48Linda returns to camp alone.
22:50She tells Bradley nothing.
22:51Even in a harrowing scene like this, Linda murdering two people, the movie scrunches the
22:58line and never loses its sense of humor.
23:00She's obviously up to something in this scene, but the guide is hilariously oblivious.
23:06While she hesitates, he just asks a couple of times, should we follow you?
23:11And when she grabs her backpack of mangoes, he tries to tell her, you don't need those,
23:15we have plenty of food on the boat.
23:16But she's very insistent on taking that backpack, so he's like, oh, you really like mangoes.
23:23And we're like, she's gonna kill you.
23:25That night, Linda hears something in the water.
23:28It's Zuri crawling onto the beach.
23:31Then her accusing voice, Linda, you tried to kill me.
23:36She gets close until Linda swings her torch and the ghost disappears, before reappearing
23:41once more, this time as a living corpse with a mangled face.
23:45And Linda wakes up from her nightmare.
23:48Yes, one side effect of murder and guilt, nightmares, and I thought my melatonin dreams were bad.
23:54Another side effect of murder, dead bodies.
23:57And the thing about dead bodies, they are not invisible.
24:00When Bradley heads out into the wilderness on his own, he finds Zuri's very visible body,
24:06her arms sticking out of the sand with a familiar engagement ring on her finger.
24:10This movie never goes supernatural, but it does borrow from the world of supernatural horror
24:16to create a vibe, like Linda's nightmare, introducing the Sam Raimi-esque undead into this movie,
24:22or Zuri's hand, grotesquely sticking out of the sand, as though showing off that ring for Bradley to find.
24:29Moments like these add to a surreal feeling, pushing the movie from tense survivor thriller
24:34to tense survivor horror, with comedic elements.
24:39Bradley screams.
24:40He runs back to camp and shows Linda the ring.
24:43Did you kill her?
24:44Linda makes excuses.
24:46Zuri slipped.
24:47I tried to help her.
24:48I only didn't tell you she was here because I knew you wouldn't believe me about what happened.
24:53But I swear, it was an accident.
24:55Then the words that cut like a knife.
24:58Just like your husband's death was an accident?
25:01You know what else cuts like a knife?
25:03A knife.
25:04She reaches for it, but Bradley already has it.
25:06He chases her into the woods, where it's an all-out brawl.
25:10She bites off a chunk of his shoulder.
25:12He gouges her eye, and it squishes, and it's gross, but stays intact.
25:17She smashes his head with a rock, eats the diamond ring.
25:20That'll show him.
25:21He nearly drowns her in a shallow mud puddle until she stabs him in the side.
25:26He runs, and this time she chases him.
25:29Where to?
25:30How about that X rock formation where she warned him not to go?
25:35There, we all guessed it, he finds a house.
25:38A beautiful, rich person island getaway that's been here the whole time.
25:43Linda's little secret.
25:45More of the surreal imagery.
25:46The dark sky.
25:48The X in front of it.
25:49Feels like something from Army of Darkness.
25:51As though Ash has come upon a strange foreign land marked by an X, where he needs to retrieve
25:57something.
25:57And those movies always end with Ash covered in blood.
26:01And now, Linda's face is splattered in blood, both her own and Bradley's.
26:06Speaking of Bradley, he breaks into the house while she speaks to him over the speakers and
26:11reveals all.
26:12Remember that boat she spotted?
26:15Not Zuri's, but the one before that?
26:17The people on that boat were caretakers for this house, belonging to some Wall Street guy
26:22who rarely visits.
26:23After they left, she broke in, shut down the security system, and got rid of all the knives,
26:29except that one.
26:30The one that, quote unquote, washed up on shore.
26:33Also, she killed Zuri and the guide by smashing his head with a rock when he tried to help
26:38her from the ledge.
26:39And now, Bradley's turn.
26:41She approaches him with a gun.
26:43He gets on his knees and begs.
26:45She was right.
26:46He was a terrible person, but he's changed.
26:49They can be happy together, the two of them.
26:51He sees it now.
26:53He tells her that he loves her.
26:55She says it back.
26:56And she buys it all, until she notices one horn missing from the bull statue.
27:01It's just like that scene from Breaking Bad with the piece of plate missing.
27:05Now she knows he means to attack her.
27:08He gets the gun, points it at her, and pulls the trigger.
27:11But no bullets.
27:12The upper hand is hers again.
27:15Now she attacks him with a golf club.
27:17Once he's on the ground, she swings at his skull, cut to her, hitting a golf ball.
27:22It's a year later.
27:24She's on a golf course at the Celebrity Golf Invitational.
27:26She was found a year ago on a raft as the sole survivor of a plane crash.
27:32Now she's famous as a real-life survivor.
27:35She wrote a book about her ordeal, which is getting turned into a movie.
27:38Next, she's writing a self-help book, because she wants people to know,
27:43no help is coming.
27:44So, you better start saving yourself.
27:47A happy ending.
27:48She drives off with her pet bird, looks directly at the camera ominously as One Way or Another
27:54by Blondie plays, and fade to black.
27:57So, what should we take from all this?
28:00What is it really about?
28:02Producer Zainab Azizi tells MovieWeb, first and foremost, they want people to be entertained.
28:07I'd say job well done.
28:09But also...
28:10I want them to take away that every human is flawed, and we're all battling our own demons,
28:17and just to be kind to our peers.
28:19By the end of the movie, we certainly see that both characters, who seem at opposite ends of
28:24the spectrum, have a lot in common.
28:27Both have their own demons, and both, when put in a position to wield power, do choose
28:32to wield it, and do choose to act cruelly.
28:35Hell, by the end of the movie, she's racked up three kills.
28:38There's remorse after killing Zuri and the guide, or at least a physical reaction where
28:44she's despondent, and takes a couple of sick days.
28:47But by the end, she's clearly gotten comfortable with who she's become.
28:52Oh God, what have I become?
28:54What have I become?
28:55Send Help is the return to horror comedy so many of us have been waiting for from Sam Raimi.
29:01It blends the two genres perfectly, with a subtext that adds a unique layer to the movie,
29:06brought to life by McAdams and O'Brien giving it their all, and it's wildly entertaining,
29:12thanks to all the twists and turns.
29:14Not only do you never know exactly where it's going, you're not even sure where you want
29:19it to go, because you're not sure who to root for at a certain point, if anyone.
29:24Me, personally, I'm Team Bore.
29:26The poor guy was just minding his own business until they showed up.
29:29Anyway, how long will we have to wait for another Raimi horror?
29:34Well, drag me to hell with 17 years ago, according to the MovieWeb interview.
29:39So that was like 17 years ago or something like that.
29:43Tell me it won't be 17 more years till we get another...
29:4518.
29:45Well, I don't like that answer.
29:47Let's try the ComicBook.com interview.
29:50Please tell me it won't be like another 15 years for a Sam Raimi horror movie.
29:54It'll be 14.2.
29:56Well then, see you for another one of these movies sometime between 2040.2 and 2044.
30:02With that, thank you for watching, and see you on the next One Take.
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