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If I could only recommend that you stream one movie right now, it'd be "Send Help," which recently came to Hulu and Disney+. I've already watched dozens of new movies in 2026, but I think Sam Raimi's thriller/horror-comedy is still hands down one of my favorite new watches of the year so far.
If you didn't catch it earlier this year, "Send Help" is a survival thriller with Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, and it is brilliantly entertaining. Twisty, surprising and very funny. I think "Send Help" is an absolute riot; as long as you've got the stomach for its grosser moments, I'm confident you'll have a great time if you stream it on Hulu.
What is 'Send Help' about?
"Send Help" revolves around Linda Liddle, a reliable, overlooked corporate strategist (and "Survivor" megafan), and her arrogant new boss, Bradley Preston (Dylan O'Brien).
En route to a business meeting, their plane crashes over the ocean, and the two wash up on a deserted island as the only survivors. Stranded, the pair are forced to set aside their differences and work together in order to stay alive... but out in the wild, that devolves into a devilish battle of wits between the two as they fight for their lives on their new island home.
In addition to McAdama and O'Brien, "Send Help" also features Edyll Ismail, Dennis Haysbert, Xavier Samuel, Chris Pang, Thaneth Warakulnukroh and Emma Raimi.
'Send Help' is a gnarly, gloriously fun horror/comedy
I saw "Send Help" not long after it hit the big screen, and my full showing was soundtracked with gasps, laughs and the odd wince in one of the film's grimmer moments. And that's understandable, because this is a truly wild film in every sense of the word.
Sam Raimi's latest is a gnarly, unpredictable thrill ride set in an unforgiving setting, and it just works. It's sharply written, pacy, has a great sense of humor, turning even a fraught struggle with a boar or the grim spectacle of a plane crash into wickedly entertaining moments, yet still manages to maintain that tension.
It wouldn't work without two very game leads in the mix, and thankfully, Raimi has exactly that with McAdams and O'Brien. The film puts them through the wringer, and they bring so much energy to every single scene. All in all, it's just delightfully entertaining, both as a survival thriller and a horror comedy.
You don't just need to take my word for it, either, as "Send Help" comes well recommended. At the time of writing, it's still sitting at 93% from critics over on Rotten Tomatoes (from more than 280 accredited reviews), and it has an audience score that's not much lower (87%). It also narrowly missed out on third place when we asked our readers to vote for the best new movie of 2026 so far back in March.
Reviewing for RogerEbert.com, Richard Roeper gave the film a 3.5/4 star rating, who said McAdams delivers "what just might be the best performance of her career" and summed the film up as an "R-rated, Sam Raimi thrill ride with projectile vomiting, flying ropes of blood, and a handful of scenes that fly so off the rails that you wonder if we’re in the middle of a dream sequence, or the mayhem is real."
At Time Out, Phil de Semlyen gave it four stars, calling the film "a major return to form for the 'Evil Dead' man" and "a gloriously over-the-top battle of wits that plays out like a violent mix of 'Cast Away,' 'Misery,' 'Lord of the Flies,' and a day out with Bear Grylls."
It also earned the same rating from Empire's Helen O'Hara, who pitches it as "exactly the kind of Sam Raimi film his fans have been waiting for."
Simply put, if you're looking for something for a feral survival thriller to stream this week, you're going to want to add "Send Help" to your watchlist.
Stream "Send Help" on Hulu or Disney+ now
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