Warning: This post contains spoilers for Send Help.By the savage final act of the blood-soaked cinematic thrill ride that is Send Help, now in theaters, the relationship between nepo baby CEO Bradley Preston (Dylan O'Brien) and his long-suffering employee Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) has been turned so far inside out, the characters we were introduced to at the start of the battle-of-wills horror-comedy are pretty much unrecognizable.After getting marooned on a desert island when their private plane crashes somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand on the way to a business trip, the dynamic between the adversarial pair is quickly flipped on its head. Linda was already harboring a grudge against Bradley as he had passed her over for the VP position promised to her by his late father in favor of promoting one of his undeserving former frat brothers. But while slick C-Suite executive Bradley was in control in the real world, Linda, the woman he thought of as a mousy nuisance of a subordinate, turns out to be a self-trained survival expert with an unexpectedly vindictive nature. Here, Linda holds all the power. And she leverages it fully, forcing Bradley into submission as her (nearly quite literally) neutered companion.Directed by horror legend Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Drag Me to Hell) from a script by screenwriting duo Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (Baywatch, Friday the 13th), Send Help has been touted as a combination of Misery and Castaway kicked into overdrive by Raimi's signature
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