Send Help (2026)

Linda Liddle is a talented strategist at the Preston company who has been promised a promotion by the founder. After he dies, his son Bradley Preston becomes the new CEO. Bradley mocks Linda and gives the job she earned to Donovan, a recent hire, then invites her on a business trip to Bangkok with Donovan and another colleague, mostly so they can laugh at her. On the private flight, Donovan plays her old audition tape for the TV show Survivor to humiliate her.

A storm knocks out an engine, and the cabin loses pressure. In the panic, Donovan tries to strangle Linda to take her seat, and she stabs him with a fork. Everyone except Linda and Bradley is pulled out of the plane before it crashes into the sea. The two of them wash up on a remote island in the Gulf of Thailand, and Bradley has an injured leg.

Linda's survival skills take over. She builds a shelter, finds fresh water, and hunts for food, while Bradley still orders her around like an employee. When he goes too far, she leaves him on his own for two days. When she comes back, he is close to death, and he slowly starts to accept that she is now in charge. The two grow closer, and Linda admits a painful secret: she let her drunk husband drive the night he died.

The balance keeps shifting. One night Bradley poisons their food with berries and tries to escape on a raft, but the raft is wrecked and Linda saves him. Later she paralyzes him with octopus venom and threatens to castrate him. Then a boat arrives carrying Bradley's fiancee, Zuri, and a boat captain. Linda leads them along a crumbling cliff path, and both fall to their deaths.

When Bradley finds Zuri's body, he attacks Linda and injures her eye, and she stabs him before he runs. He discovers a luxury beach house on the other side of the island, full of supplies. Linda follows him there, admits she caused the deaths, and faces him with a shotgun. He begs for his life, then grabs a hidden weapon, and Linda kills him with a golf club. A year later, Linda is a rich celebrity, famous for surviving the crash alone. She promotes a film of her life and a new self-help book, and drives off into the sunset.

The big twist is that Linda was never only a victim. She found the luxury beach house well before Bradley did, took supplies from it, and kept it secret. She also hid from at least one boat that could have rescued them. On the island she finally had the power and respect she never got at work, and a rescue would have taken it all away.

That is why Zuri and the boat captain die. Their boat was a way home, so Linda led them along a dangerous cliff and let them fall. Bradley wrongly blames her at first for killing them on purpose in a fight, but in the beach house Linda admits she caused their deaths. When he goes for a weapon, she kills him with a golf club, the same game he once used to shut her out of the boys' club at work.

In the final scene, a year later, Linda is a celebrity. The world believes she survived the crash alone and escaped on a raft, and nobody knows about Bradley, Zuri, or the captain. Her memoir has become a film, and her new self-help book carries the line "No help is coming, so you'd better start saving yourself." She drives away free, playing golf among the rich and powerful people who once ignored her.

So is Linda the hero or the villain? The film leaves that to you. Bradley was cruel and he did try to poison her, but Linda killed two innocent people to keep her power. Raimi's point is that power changes people, and the quiet worker everyone overlooked can become just as ruthless as the boss she hated.