Before the cancellation of Sam Raimi‘s Spider-Man 4 years ago, a rumor floated around suggesting that Rachel McAdams was in discussions to play a villain, Black Cat. Now, many years later, Raimi has addressed the rumor.

His new one, 'Send Help,' is out this week, but where does it rank against 'Evil Dead,' 'Spider-Man,' and others?

The director’s best work doesn’t come from comic book adaptations, it comes from original gross-out thrillers like Send Help and Drag Me to Hell

For fans who grew up on the early 2000s superhero boom, Sam Raimi is a name that carries serious weight. The filmmaker behind Spider-Man helped redefine what comic book movies could be, blending sincerity,

Spider-Man trilogy director Sam Raimi has finally revealed whether there's any truth to rumours he was looking to cast a female villain in 2011's unmade Spider-Man 4.

To be sure, Zainab Azizi isn’t overselling Send Help as a supernatural gorefest led by Bruce Campbell, but everything he says about the movie could easily also apply to at at least 1981’s The Evil Dead, and possibly also Darkman and A Simple Plan, just to round the bases. As Azizi put it to SFX:

Send Help was initially imagined as a full on psychological thriller, as that’s exactly how screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift originally wrote it. But once Sam Raimi got involved, things took a very Raimi turn.

The movie stars Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams (“Spotlight”) and Dylan O’Brien (the “Maze Runner” trilogy). “Send Help” marks Raimi’s second collaboration with “The Notebook” actress