For the first time since Drag Me To Hell, Sam Raimi is set to direct a brand horror film himself: Send Help.
Even though he’s been producing and overseeing a host of films and shows, Sam Raimi hasn’t stepped behind the camera for a horror movie for over a decade now. That’d be the movie Drag Me To Hell, that came out all the way back in – yikes – 2009. In fact, he’s only directed one movie in the last decade, the not particularly strong Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness.
The horror bits of that particular film were good to be fair, and it made a lot of money. Still, would the father of The Evil Dead be lured back to direct a fresh horror film?
Yes. Yes he would.
The movie in question has got to the point where it’s about to get a greenlight at Disney’s 20th Century Studios, and it goes by the name of Send Help. It’s been penned by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, who wrote the Baywatch movie that came out a few years ago (they’ve also worked on Friday The 13th movies, which might be a bit more tonally on the mark!).
It’s sounding like quite a lean thriller this too, with a small cast and an island setting. The report over at Deadline says that the film is basically going to be a two-hander. With a bit of luck, it shouldn’t take too long to turn around.
No word yet on the casting for the movie, nor when production is likely to get underway. Promisingly though, it sounds as though the film will be getting a cinema release.
More news on Send Help when we hear it. Raimi has a couple of other horror projects he’s produced heading our way, as well as a new Evil Dead film he’s going to have some involvement with. More on those as we hear more things.
