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19. The Island Isn't Deserted - Send Help
Sam Raimi's Send Help is a glorious sick puppy of a movie, centered around Linda Liddle (an amazing Rachel McAdams), an underappreciated corporate strategist who ends up stranded on a desert island with her a**hole boss, Bradley Preston (Dylan O'Brien).
With Bradley being gravely wounded by the plane crash that stranded them, their workplace power dynamic is suddenly flipped on its head.
But these circumstances don't merely showcase Bradley's vulnerability - they also reveal Linda to be a far more twisted individual than anyone could've ever anticipated.
For one, she kills Bradley's fiancee Zuri (Edyll Ismail) and the boat captain she arrives on the island with in search of him, and because that's not heinous enough, she also found a luxurious beach house on the other side of the island early on and simply decided not to tell Bradley.
Considering that the marketing sold Send Help as a more straight-forward black comedy about a put-upon woman getting revenge on her awful boss, just about nobody expected Linda capable of cooking up such an unhinged scheme.
That's without getting into the fact that she eventually kills Bradley at the end of the movie, too, and then enriches herself off the whole situation.