His new one, 'Send Help,' is out this week, but where does it rank against 'Evil Dead,' 'Spider-Man,' and others?

For fans who grew up on the early 2000s superhero boom, Sam Raimi is a name that carries serious weight. The filmmaker behind Spider-Man helped redefine what comic book movies could be, blending sincerity,

To be sure, Zainab Azizi isn’t overselling Send Help as a supernatural gorefest led by Bruce Campbell, but everything he says about the movie could easily also apply to at at least 1981’s The Evil Dead, and possibly also Darkman and A Simple Plan, just to round the bases. As Azizi put it to SFX:

The gory comedy thriller debuted to a near-perfect 93% on the review aggregator this week, matching Spider-Man 2's score from 2004. Other titles of Raimi's that linger around the 90% mark include Evil Dead 2 (88%), A Simple Plan (91%), and Drag Me to Hell (92%). In short, Send Help is in good company.

Send Help was initially imagined as a full on psychological thriller, as that’s exactly how screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift originally wrote it. But once Sam Raimi got involved, things took a very Raimi turn.

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