Send Help (2026)
Send Help is a 2026 horror movie directed by Sam Raimi, with a running time of 1h 53m. It stars Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien and Edyll Ismail.
A plane goes down and leaves two coworkers, an employee and her boss, as the only survivors on a deserted island. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien play the stranded pair, whose office grievances curdle into something far more dangerous once food, water, and trust run short. Sam Raimi directs, and the setup strips the horror down to two people, one shoreline, and a slow reveal of what each will do to get off the island alive. The tension is less about the wilderness than about who can be trusted when the rules of civility fall away.
Quick answers
What is Send Help about?
A plane goes down and leaves two coworkers, an employee and her boss, as the only survivors on a deserted island. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien play the stranded pair, whose office grievances curdle into something far more dangerous once food, water, and trust run short. Sam Raimi directs, and the setup strips the horror down to two people, one shoreline, and a slow reveal of what each will do to get off the island alive. The tension is less about the wilderness than about who can be trusted when the rules of civility fall away.
When was Send Help released?
Send Help was released on 22 January 2026.
How long is Send Help?
Send Help runs 1h 53m.
Who made Send Help?
Send Help was directed by Sam Raimi.
Where can I watch Send Help?
Send Help is available on Hulu, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Send Help
Stream: Hulu
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: AppleTV, Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Rachel McAdams as Linda Liddle
- Dylan O'Brien as Bradley Preston
- Edyll Ismail as Zuri
- Dennis Haysbert as Franklin
- Xavier Samuel as Donovan
- Chris Pang as Chase
- Thaneth Warakulnukroh as Boat Captain
- Emma Raimi as River
- Kristy Best as Polly Perera
- Francesca Waters as Barbara
- Olivia Sawyer as Applicant
- Brad Flett as Trainer
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A few thoughts on Send Help
For survival that hinges on a fraying bond, play The Last of Us, where staying alive and staying human pull in opposite directions. On film, Cast Away sits with the loneliness of the stranded, while 127 Hours turns a single trapped body into unbearable, intimate suspense.
Stranded somewhere remote where the real threat is the person next to you
Send Help strands two coworkers on an island and lets the real danger turn out to be each other. Spell drops its plane-crash survivor into a community that turns dangerous, The Hunt makes a stranger's motives the real monster, Wrong Turn sends its group into wilderness where people are worse than the terrain, and The Last of Us keeps reminding its survivors that other people are usually the real threat.
Office grievances that curdle into something genuinely dangerous once the rules disappear
Send Help turns a boss-and-employee dynamic into a fight for survival once civility stops applying. American Psycho hides its own workplace psychopath behind a spotless suit, Bugonia lets a grudge against a corporate target spiral into captivity, Unknown traps two people in a tense standoff, The Final flips a school's social hierarchy into a night of payback, and Locked turns a parking-garage grudge into a fight nobody walks away from.
Surviving someone else's game means playing by rules you did not choose
Send Help's island becomes its own kind of forced contest once trust runs out. The Long Walk turns endurance itself into a lethal competition, Saw and Saw II strip survival down to a series of impossible choices, The Institute follows kids who have to learn a facility's rules just to get out, and Future Diary hands its cast an explicit rulebook for staying alive.
Deserted and remote places where the environment might kill you first
Send Help starts as a survival story before it becomes something else, stranding its pair somewhere the setting alone is dangerous. Dead Sea and The Last Breath both trap people against merciless water, Predator drops soldiers into jungle that hides a hunter worse than any of them expected, and 28 Years Later isolates its whole community on an island where every supply run is a gamble.