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Send Help was a darkly funny, scary and gross return to form for Sam Raimi, with powerhouse performances by Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien. >!It had a brutal climax culminating in Linda swinging the golf club onto Bradley's cranium… and then it jarringly swerves to a sudden return to civilization with Linda becoming a celebrity, having somehow cleaned up the mess left in the mansion plus fully healed from her injuries (including a partially gouged out eye and partly scalped). It could've been a dream, but it nonetheless feels incongruous with the gory grand finale built up until that moment. The film could've wrapped up with her tapping Bradley out and still felt complete. !<

A good comparison for how the ending of this film could've been resolved would've been taking a few cues from the ending of David Cronenberg's visceral and disgusting The Fly. >!Many possible epilogues were discussed and pitched after Brundlefly's put down, but none of them felt complemented the film's tragic and despairing finish. Everyone involved felt closing the film with Brundlefly's death was the best decision for the film. !<Similarly, just closing this film with a violently hilarious flourish would've been best for it.