I don’t know if anybody was asking what The Blue Lagoon would look like in the hands of Sam Raimi, but we’re quite fortunate that he decided to show us anyway. It’s been a long time since Raimi has directed outside of the typical Hollywood franchise bubble -the last movie to truly be called his own was 2009’s Drag Me to Hell . In fairness, he did have a hiatus of about a decade before Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022, during which he time he produced a fair number of weird genre projects for other directors. And maybe something rubbed off on him, to a small degree on his Marvel film -which is at least aesthetically more weird and compelling than a lot of its cohorts- but especially so on his latest movie, which seems to prove he doesn’t just have superhero films to offer anymore. And Send Help is refreshingly free and loose and twisted in a way that we both haven’t seen from him in a while and has just in general been missing from mainstream c...
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