It’s hard not to root for Linda Liddle, Rachel McAdams’s corporate striver turned deserted island survivor in Sam Raimi’s devilishly sharp film Send Help.
Even Raimi, as he reached into his bag of tricks for his return to horror, couldn’t help himself. “I mean, Sam always loves to root for the underdog,” says Zainab Azizi, Send Help’s producer.
For most of the horror film, we’re on her side, too. We want Linda to get the promotion she deserves, and we hate her boss, Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien), who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. We delight in the fact that, when the two are trapped on a deserted island together, she is thriving and he is hapless.
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