By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Come aboard for more bad behavior from Sam Raimi’s latest.
SEND HELP debuts today on digital platforms (including Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home) and April 21 on physical media (4K UHD + Blu-ray + digital code in the U.S. and on-line only; DVD in the U.S. and Canada). Raimi directed from a script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, with Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien, Edyll Ismail, Dennis Haysbert, Xavier Samuel and Chris Pang starring. The synopsis: “When two business colleagues become stranded on a deserted island as the only survivors of a plane crash, they must overcome past grievances and work together to stay alive. But they’re not in the office anymore, and an unsettling, wryly humorous battle of wills and wits begins in this original, darkly comedic psychological thriller.” (See our review here.)
Special features for both the digital and physical releases are:
- Audio commentary by director Sam Raimi and producer Zainab Azizi
- Bloopers: Check out hilarious outtakes from the making of the movie
Deleted & Extended Scenes:
- Bradley’s Office
- Franklin at Coffee
- Linda in Car
- Airplane Intro (seen below)
- Plane Scene Version 1—Storyboards
- Plane Scene with Pre-vis
- Plane Scene with Stunt-vis
- Finding Water and Bradley
- High Ridge 1 and Bamboo
- Night of Horror Day of Hunger
- Boar Scene Stunt-vis
- Boar Scene with Puppet
- Waterfall
- Long Goodbye
- Teaching Montage
- Extended Campfire and Bradley Bathing
- Extended Cave
- Walk and Talk and Dinner
- Castration Scene—Storyboards
- Bee Cave
- Franklin Returns
- Audition Tape
Featurettes:
- Constructing the Boar Hunt: Sam Raimi offers a deep dive into the creation of SEND HELP’s epic boar hunt scene and the intensive creative process that amplifies the scene’s visceral impact
- From the Office to the Island: Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien detail their transformative filming experience, moving from controlled studios to open beaches
- Becoming Linda Liddle: Rachel McAdams, along with the costume and makeup designers, describes the unique journey of creating Linda Liddle’s unpolished office appearance and developing her striking, unpredictable survivalist transformation
- Survival Instinct: Follow Rachel McAdams as she learns the fundamentals of surviving in the wild with the help of survivalist expert Ky Furneaux
- SOS: Sounds of Survival: Danny Elfman details his creative process and collaboration with Sam Raimi to write a score that elevates the emotional and atmospheric landscape of SEND HELP
