Sam Raimi’s

 Rarely has an onscreen “Directed By” credit felt less necessary than Sam Raimi’s on Send Help. Obviously Raimi directed this thing; his fingerprints are all over every image; the extreme close-ups and gliding POV shots, the cartoonishly gloppy violence, the cheerfully sadistic sense of humor. No one else could have directed this movie — at least like this.

In many ways, Send Help is the spiritual sequel to Drag Me to Hell that Raimi fans (this one included) have been waiting for since 2009. Like its predecessor, Send Help is a small-scale moral fable about how quickly the dog-eat-dog world of capitalism can escalate into a full-blown horror. Both movies even share an inciting incident: A fight over a coveted job promotion, which frumpy Linda Little (Rachel McAdams) was promised by her company’s founder.

Unfortunately for Ms. Liddle (pronounced like little for maximum thematic resonance), said founder died before he could make good on his vow. And when the founder’s casually cruel son Bradley (Dylan O’Brien) takes over the company, he sees no reason to honor his father’s wishes. Bradley immediately hands Linda’s vice president position to one of his old fraternity brothers. Then he pours salt in the wound by openly mocking Linda’s disheveled appearance and “noxious” tuna breath.

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