20 Most Perfect Scenes In Recent Movies

20. Send Help - The Golf Club

What are some of cinema's best match cuts? Well, some great examples are: the match cut in Lawrence of Arabia, the bone turning into a spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey, a falcon turning into a WWII plane in Powell & Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale, the cut from the drain to Marion's dead eye in Psycho, the final cut of Saint Maud and now, it's time to talk about another match cut deserves to be discussed among the GOATs. 

This comes from Send Help, the long-awaited return to horror for the great Sam Raimi. This one sees two colleagues who loathe each other stranded on an island - an eccentric, downtrodden and possibly crazy strategist named Linda (Rachel McAdams) and her toxic, repulsive boss Bradley (Dylan O'Brien). As is generally the case in any horror story, things escalate more and more throughout, with it eventually turning out that the island isn't deserted after all and that Linda has actually been preventing them both from leaving, setting the stage for a gnarly showdown. 

This eventually ends when Linda kills Bradley with a golf club. And here, the amazing match cut is deployed. The movie jumps from Linda swinging the club into Bradley's head to her playing an actual golf at a celebrity golf tournament. Having capitalized on her survival story, Linda is now a celebrity and is living a life of success. This is visual storytelling at its best, and it's darkly hilarious to boot.