A (gory and festive) guide to ending your life

In one of the episodes of the animated series Adventure TimeFinn and Jake find a floating iceberg carrying zombie businessmen obsessed with efficiency and productivity. Sam Raimi, a filmmaker who has managed to build a career in the mainstream (the first trilogy of Spiderman) without ever denying its independent origins and its love for B-movie horror (Infernal possession), addresses in Send Help Another kind of corporate castaway. After a plane crash, Linda, a brilliant but socially challenged employee, and Bradley, her arrogant and misogynistic boss, arrive on a remote island.

Raimi, who hasn't seemed so comfortable with the material he's working with sinceDrag to hellIt makes enormous use of the few elements it has (two characters and one location), pushing its protagonists to the limit in a film that combines, in the purest Raimi style, black comedy, grotesque situations, and humor. cartoonish and one gore Exuberant and festive. The script may be a bit drawn out and the critique (corporate capitalism as a Darwinian struggle where only the strongest survive) a bit too obvious, but Raimi seems to have made exactly the film he wanted and also has an ace up his sleeve: a hilarious Rachel McAdams, ready to do whatever it takes, using methods that all of us who have had terrible bosses would approve of.