It’s like being stranded on a deserted island without the inconvenience of sand in your shoes.
The movie Send Help is fun, but the new ScreenX theatre at Event Cinemas Loganholme becomes the star of the show.
Let’s start with the important part: the chairs.
ScreenX is the new jewel in the Loganholme set-up. These seats recline, and that’s where the journey begins.
There’s even a small table between chairs — a quaint but heroic platform for popcorn and a drink. Civilisation, at last.
Then the lights dim, the main screen flares to life, and just when you think you know where to look — bam — the walls wake up.
ScreenX projects onto the side walls as well as the central screen, and in the case of Send Help, those two side walls become an endless sprawl of island greenery and the surrounding ocean.
Sounds off-putting? Not really. Rather, it fulfils the promise of an immersive experience.
You’re not just watching characters get marooned — you’re peripherally checking for coconuts. The horizon wraps around you.
As for the film itself, Send Help is a survival thriller with a taste for psychological mischief.
It’s one of twists and turns — the kind where every alliance feels temporary and every smile looks slightly suspicious. Think “Misery” in paradise.
There’s sun, sand, and the creeping suspicion that the person helping you build a raft might later tie you to it. The island setting lulls you into postcard-mode, and then the plot politely shoves you off a narrative cliff.
At moments of tension, your eyes dart sideways, half-expecting something (or someone) to emerge from the palms. It’s not just a film; it’s a mild cardio workout for your peripheral vision.
And yet, despite all this technological wizardry, the experience remains oddly comfortable. You’re cocooned in a recliner, feet up, popcorn within reach, beverage secure on its noble table. You’re stranded — but luxuriously so.
The real twist may be this: I went in to review a movie and came out reviewing a chair, a wall, and an ocean that wasn’t technically there.
Send Help delivers its suspense, its shifting loyalties, and its sun-drenched menace. But ScreenX delivers an experience — the sense that cinema might still surprise us, not just with plot, but with space.
In the end, I wasn’t just watching people try to escape an island.
I was sitting in one.
With a drink.
Which, frankly, is the superior survival strategy.
