Sam Raimi Send Help starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien may sling past Spider-Man 2 to become his highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes

Friday’s “Send Help” strands a truly odd and very antagonistic couple on an anything but idyllic deserted South Pacific isle following a harrowing plane crash.

Send Help is the upcoming horror thriller film directed by Sam Raimi. It is written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, while Raimi has produced it with Zainab Azizi.

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.

Here’s our review of Sam Raimi’s Send Help, which sees Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien warring on a desert island.

Discover everything about Send Help (2026), Sam Raimi’s new horror-thriller starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien. Get the release date, full cast list, plot details, and find out where to watch this intense survival movie hitting theaters January 30.

With Sam Raimi’s Send Help inching toward its wide release, here’s everything you need to know before it hits theaters.

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: