Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Send Help follows two colleagues — an employee and her boss — who are the sole survivors of a plane crash and wash up on a desert island. Past grievances between them don't disappear with the wreckage; staying alive means depending on the person they'd least choose. Directed by Sam Raimi, the film pitches physical survival against an equally fraught interpersonal battle, where the tension between the two characters rivals any threat the island itself can offer.
Send Help is a 2026 American survival horror thriller film directed and co-produced by Sam Raimi and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien as an employee and her boss, respectively, who become stranded on a desert island after a plane crash and attempt to survive while tension rises between them.
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Series
Survive
Two survivors of a mountain plane crash lean on each other to push through brutal wilderness and stay alive.
Series
The Wilds
Girls from clashing backgrounds survive a deserted island crash, their secrets and traumas surfacing under pressure.
Series
Flight 29 Down
Teenagers stranded on an island after a crash must navigate both survival and the social friction between them.
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Wrecked
Castaways on an uninhabited island discover their greatest threats are the ones they create for each other.
Series
Missing Nine
Nine people vanish after a plane crash, sparking panic as survivors struggle to piece together what happened.
Series
Dear Edward
A lone child survives a crash and must piece together meaning and connection amid grief and uncertainty.
Game
Paradise
After crashing on an island, survival means gathering resources and competing against others to find a way out.
Game
Help Will Come Tomorrow
Survivors of a catastrophe must endure a hostile wilderness together, managing conflict while waiting for rescue.
Game
Lost in Vivo
Claustrophobia and psychological dread drive this horror game, where the danger lies as much within as without.
Game
Awaria
A broken environment forces quick thinking and improvised fixes with unseen dangers lurking around every corner.
Game
Stranded Deep
A plane-crash survivor stranded in the Pacific must craft, adapt, and face life-threatening scenarios head-on.
Game
Disaster Report
Stranded on an earthquake-ravaged island, a reporter must improvise tools and navigate constant danger to escape.
Book
Cry for Help
A woman drawn into something dangerous through an ordinary commitment finds herself entangled in a murder.
Book
Stranded
A young girl with something to prove attempts a rescue mission, testing her self-reliance under real pressure.
Book
Ghost night
Murders on a remote island film set blur the line between fiction and real threat for a surviving witness.
Book
In a handful of dust
A teenager cast out into a barren world must search alone for safety, survival driving every decision.
Book
She Went All the Way
Forced into close quarters in Alaskan wilderness with someone she'd rather avoid, a woman must survive and adapt.
Book
The Dark Ground
A boy wakes alone after a plane journey with no crash in sight, isolation warping into something deeply unsettling.
Film
Island
A deserted island hides something ancient and malevolent, turning a carefree getaway into a waking nightmare.
Film
Self-Help
Psychological pressure mounts as a woman embeds herself in a controlling group with a dangerous, charismatic leader.
Film
Shelter
A man in island exile is forced out of hiding to protect a stranger, his past catching up in violent fashion.
Film
Survive
Two plane-crash survivors must navigate a snow-covered wilderness together, fighting both the elements and despair.
Film
Siren
A coastal retreat sours when a mysterious figure spotted offshore draws a group of friends into genuine danger.
Film
Survival Island
Teens stranded on a remote island for a scavenger hunt accidentally unleash a supernatural threat they cannot outrun.
If the island survival and interpersonal tension are what grabbed you, The Wilds is a strong next watch — it layers deserted-island survival with secrets and clashing personalities across a full series. Survive (2020) is a leaner, more intense two-person version of the same dynamic.
Stranded Deep puts you directly in a plane-crash survivor's shoes on a Pacific island, with the same resource-scraping tension. For a more social, conflict-driven spin on the same premise, Paradise adds other players into the survival mix.
The film roots its tension in an existing relationship — two people who already have grievances are forced to depend on each other. That pre-existing friction makes the island itself almost secondary; the real threat is the dynamic between the two characters.