Rachel McAdams & Dylan O'Brien Defend 'Send Help's Ending

20th Century Studios

The survivalist horror-comedy Send Help goes in a ton of wild directions. And of course, the final twist is the most jaw-dropping of all. It’s so charged, that audiences are split in their opinion on it — should we feel happy, or is it meant to be upsetting? For Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien, the answer is kinda both.

Spoiler alert: Don’t read on if you haven’t seen Send Help yet.

The two leads discussed Linda Liddle’s unnerving victory in Send Help’s final act. After O’Brien’s character Bradley discovers that Linda has gone so far as to murder his fiancée in order to keep him trapped on an island, he and Linda have their climactic final battle. It ends with Linda killing Bradley with a golf club, and later returning to society to take over his high-powered job.

But because Linda has been such a sympathetic character the whole rest of the ...