It’s been fifteen years since Sam Raimi directed a proper horror flick, 2009’s Drag Me to Hell, but now he’s finally coming back. Deadline reports Raimi will direct Send Help, a horror-thriller set up at 20th Century Studios.
The report describes Send Help as “a two-hander horror thriller set on an island. The story is said to fall somewhere between Rob Reiner’s Stephen King adaptation Misery and Robert Zemeckis’ classic Castaway.” Sounds like some kind of kidnapping movie set on an island, which could be interesting. Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the duo behind Freddy vs. Jason and the Baywatch movie, wrote the original script, which has yet to be given the green light by the studio.
Raimi has spent the last decade in blockbuster territory. He directed Oz the Great and Powerful in 2013, and then Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022, and has been rumored for more Marvel stuff in the future. But he will always be known as the director of the Evil Dead franchise and the Tobey Maguire Spider-man movies.
This is still early days, but when Send Help is ready to go it’s expected to get a full theatrical release. Expect casting news soon.
