5 Best Movies Like Send Help

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"Send Help," Sam Raimi's bloody scary drama featuring a delightfully unhinged Rachel McAdams, is now connected VOD. It marks Raimi's large return to nan scary genre and serves arsenic a awesome showcase for McAdams, 1 of nan champion actors moving today. McAdams plays Linda Liddle, a mousy agency drone who sees her dreams of promotion dashed erstwhile her institution is taken complete by spoiled rich | kid Bradley (Dylan O'Brien). The tables are turned, however, erstwhile Linda and Bradley past a level clang and lavation up connected a tropical island. Bradley has nary endurance skills whatsoever, while Linda, an avid scholar and instrumentality of nan reality show "Survivor," finds herself thriving. A bloody conflict of wits and power ensues betwixt nan 2 of them, pinch delightfully wicked results.

If you're a instrumentality of nan flick and craving thing akin to watch next, I've rounded up 5 films that fresh nan bill. There were galore options I could slot successful here, but I tried to make judge nan films were scary aliases horror-adjacent while still maintaining a playful consciousness of fun. 

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Obviously we needed different Sam Raimi movie connected this list. The closest point Raimi has done successful reside to "Send Help" is "Drag Me to Hell," his wacky, over-the-top horror-comedy from 2009. Alison Lohman plays Christine Brown, a slope indebtedness serviceman who finds herself cursed erstwhile she refuses to thief an aged Romani female (Lorna Raver) having owe troubles.

While "Drag Me to Hell" isn't cleanable — Alison Lohman is simply a alternatively anemic lead, and she retired from acting not agelong aft this came retired — it's truthful gleefully nasty and silly that it's difficult not to person nosy pinch it all. This is Raimi successful axenic "Looney Tunes" mode, dropping anvils connected heads and sending eyeballs flying into people's mouths. And you simply can't hit nan movie's wonderfully twisted ending.

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Want much beach-set horror? Then look nary further than nan formation that makes you aged successful "Old"! M. Night Shyamalan's bonkers horror-thriller sends a group of families to a seemingly idyllic formation only to observe that they're trapped location and the spot had immoderate benignant of magical powerfulness to velocity up nan aging process. Adults go elderly, kids go adults, and dormant bodies go skeletons successful nan blink of an eye!

Like astir of Shyamalan's modern films, there's a existent strangeness to "Old" that's very difficult to pin down. The filmmaker seemingly has nary much liking successful thing approaching realism and alternatively prefers to make movies group successful heightened realities wherever everything and everyone is conscionable a small (or a lot) off-kilter. You're either happy pinch that (as I am) aliases you're utterly baffled. 

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J. D. Dillard's "Sweetheart" premiered astatine Sundance but ne'er sewage a due theatrical release, going alternatively consecutive to streaming services and VOD. That's a shame, because it benignant of sewage mislaid successful nan shuffle and deserved better. A crackling bully monster movie, "Sweetheart" stars Kiersey Clemons arsenic Jennifer, a young female who washes up connected an land and has to past some nan elements and a scary monster lurking about.

"Sweetheart" has much than a fewer tricks up its sleeve, and there's much to nan communicative than conscionable "woman vs. monster," but I don't want to springiness excessively overmuch away. I will opportunity that nan segment that introduces nan monster is beautiful damn great, though.

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Ultimately, "Send Help" belongs to nan "Good For Her!" subgenre. That is, it's nan type of scary flick wherever nan lead characteristic is simply a tormented female who has to conflict her measurement done unlikable characters to travel retired connected top. One of nan champion caller examples of this subgenre is "Ready aliases Not," and while a caller sequel — "Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come" — is presently successful theaters (read our caller reappraisal here), nan original is nan amended of nan two.

Samara Weaving delivers a star-making move arsenic Grace, a young female marrying into an obscenely able family. Unfortunately for Grace, these rich | snobs are besides homicidal and they walk nan wedding nighttime trying to hunt her down and termination her successful a deadly crippled of hide-and-seek. Funny, bloody, and highly entertaining, "Ready aliases Not" is simply a full blast.

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