‘Send Help’

Send Help is a survival horror. When an overlooked female office worker, in a male dominated workplace, survives a plane crash and wakes up on a Pacific island with her douchebag boss, she sees the opportunity to take revenge and regain control of her life.

The story combines office politics with the outdoors, island survival narrative. The tone is a mix of horror thriller and dark comedy. The comic element is critical in binding the story together. It adds an extra dimension to the story as well as providing a framework that excuses the plot extravagances as well as the protagonist’s dubious morality. In terms of the one line pitch it’s Cast Away meets Misery.

I enjoyed watching the film as a writer – seeing how the horror and dark comedy balanced and where the writers would take the story. The ending could have gone horribly wrong, but it manages to keep things together.