REVIEW: ‘Survivor’ meets workplace horror in Sam Raimi’s deliciously funny ‘Send Help’

DUBAI: Sam Raimi’s survival horror comedy “Send Help” finds the visionary director in fine form. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien star as beleaguered employee and passive-aggressive new boss respectively in a film that’s irreverent, camp and gruesomely gory — all trademarks of Raimi’s masterful touch. The premise is simple. Two colleagues — Adams’ Linda Liddle has been passed over for her long-overdue promotion, while O’Brien’s tyrant nepo baby Bradley Preston has just been named CEO. On a work trip, the two of them survive a devastating plane crash and wash up on a deserted island.

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