An employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. Here, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, will they make it out alive?

Every so often you see a movie that completely floors you in the best possible way. For me it happens a couple of times a year where a movie subverts your expectations, the themes or narrative are new and true, or there is something fresh here that just completely captures your attention for the entire running time of the film. Send Help was one of those kind of movies for me in 2026, only a few weeks in. Blood splattered, thrilling, and uproariously hilarious, Send Help is one of the most unique films you will see this year with a star performance from Rachel McAdams. Get to the cinema and see it. 

Send Help is a survival horror thriller about two colleagues, Linda and Bradley, who become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it’s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

The narrative premise is simple: Linda survives a plane crash with her awful, humiliation-inducing boss Bradley on a desert island where the tables are turned: she, as a keen survivalist, is the one with all the power now.

What could have played as simply a revenge piece is way more nuanced here in Send Help. Rachel McAdams' Linda is more complex than just wanting simple revenge for the way Bradley treated her. She wants to both take her pound of flesh, very slowly, but she also seems to want to woo and control him too. It’s complicated and messy and all so very human. 

Send Help is also damn funny too. I can’t remember the last time where the whole cinema was in an uproar of uncontrolled laughter, clapping in sheer delight at this almost gallows humour. 

Rachel McAdams is perfection here and plays Linda, in spite of all the awful things she does, with a broken humanity that is endearing. The way in which she morphs into this character is astonishing both from a personality and a physical point of view. 

Blood splattered, thrilling, and uproariously hilarious, Send Help is one of the most unique films you will see this year with a star performance from Rachel McAdams. Get to the cinema and see it.

★★★★★