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Send Help (2026)

Send Help poster
Directed by
Sam Raimi
Genre
horror film, survival film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
R
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1,971 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two coworkers crash land on a desert island and must work together to survive. As their situation becomes more desperate, the tension between them grows.

tensesurvivalclaustrophobicdesperateisolatedfrayingvisceralunpredictable

What happens

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. Send Help premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California on January 21, 2026, and was released in the United States by 20th Century Studios on January 30. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $94 million against a $40 million production budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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