‘Send Help’ Almost Called On ‘Survivor’ Host Jeff Probst for a Cameo

Sam Raimi‘s Send Help marked a bloody entertaining return to horror on the big screen for the Evil Dead filmmaker. Between Rachel McAdams stunning turn as the unhinged Linda Little and loads of gross out gags, the film slayed at the box office. But it could’ve been even funnier, as we’re learning today that it almost featured a cameo from “Survivor” host Jeff Probst, reports Deadline.

Over on X, writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift confirmed as much, writing, ““FACT CHECK: True! We wrote a cameo for him at the very end. Playing himself. If you’ve seen it you know where. He says ‘Nice shot, Linda!’ and we see they’re on the same celebrity golf team. We couldn’t work out the schedule.”

That’s a shame, because that would’ve been a perfect capper on the outrageous survival horror comedy. Probst agrees.

On the red carpet recently, Probst mentioned the missed opportunity. “Sam Raimi offered me a small part in that, to play myself at the end, and we could not work it out schedule-wise, because we were shooting [Survivor 50]. Oh, I know. That’s Sam Raimi! I was like, ‘Wait a minute! He wants me to be in his movie?’ So, we did talk. We did some cross-promotion together—and I got to meet him over Zoom—and I was very enthusiastic to be a part of it.”

Alas, Probst was needed at the Tribal Council and missed the call to Send Help. File it under fun cameos that could have been.

Send Help stars McAdams as an employee pushed too far who finally flips the script on her boss, played by Dylan O’Brien, after they crash land on a desert island.

In his review, Dread’s own Josh Korngut wrote, “The best moments of are the ones that feel most like Sam Raimi: exciting, outrageous bursts of mayhem and cruelty that lean into the absurdity of survival. The film is at its best when it depends on the nastiness of revenge, sudden animal attacks, and the violence of an insane airplane wreck segment that is truly one for the books.”