{"id":14364,"date":"2026-04-25T19:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=14364"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:20:07","slug":"over-your-dead-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2026\/04\/25\/over-your-dead-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Your Dead Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Over Your Dead Body<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IFC\/Comedy-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 105 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody violence and gore, sexual assault, pervasive language, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jorma Taccone\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Matthew Compton\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Matt Weston\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: April 24, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Paul Guilfoyle, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Keith Jardine, Jake Curran, Danusia Samal, Cha Yoon Lee, Robert Goodman, Andy Cohen.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0I went to AMC\u2019s Early Access screening of Over Your Dead Body<\/strong>. I wasn\u2019t planning to, but my movie buddy Chris reserved a seat for me. Since I had nothing better planned, I went. I figured if nothing else, I could check it off my list. I didn\u2019t expect what happened next.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Going by the trailer, I assumed Over Your Dead Body<\/strong> would be a variation of The War of the Roses with yet another twisted tale of an unhappily married couple who go to extremes to end their union. I thought to myself didn\u2019t we just go through this with the last summer\u2019s lame remake The Roses? Why are we getting another one already? But you know me, I\u2019ll give almost any film a fair shake. I\u2019m glad I did in this case because the film exceeded my expectations. It turns wildly in an unexpected direction and becomes a (very) bloody black comedy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Jorma Taccone (MacGruber), Over Your Dead Body<\/strong> starts off by introducing us to the main characters, a highly dysfunctional couple who can barely stand to breathe the same air as each other. Dan (Segel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is a once-promising indie filmmaker reduced to directing commercials. His wife Lisa (Weaving, Ready or Not 1 & 2) is a mediocre-at-best actress who lives to criticize her husband. They set off on a weekend trip to his father\u2019s remote cabin in the woods supposedly to reconnect. What neither one of them realizes is that their plans involve more than hiking or fishing. They\u2019re secretly planning to kill each other.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Over Your Dead Body<\/strong> plays out like this for a little while with each partner trying to gain the upper hand. Then we get a real game changer. Three fugitives- escaped cons Pete (Olyphant, Scream 2) and Todd (Jardine, Love Lies Bleeding) and corrections officer Allegra (Lewis, Natural Born Killers)- literally crash the party. That\u2019s when things get truly nuts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I like to be surprised by movies. It doesn\u2019t happen often, but when it does, it\u2019s sweet. Over Your Dead Body<\/strong> did NOT go where I thought it would and I admire Taccone and the writers Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney for it. What\u2019s even cooler is how they managed to change my perceptions of the main characters. Initially, I found them annoying and quite irritating. Dan comes off as a big man-child and Lisa an emasculating bitch. It\u2019s easy to understand why they hate each other. Why don\u2019t they just get a divorce, you ask? Two words, insurance pay-out. They\u2019re in tremendous debt; the insurance would be a big help. All one of them has to do is die. But I digress. The point is I couldn\u2019t stand either one of them at first. That changed. I still didn\u2019t love them at the end, but I didn\u2019t want them both dead. That has to count for something, right?<\/p>\n

\u00a0Over Your Dead Body<\/strong> benefits from a more than game cast. The two leads go a great job as both a couple and as individuals. Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner they\u2019re not, but Segel and Weaving have combustible chemistry. They really sell it as a dysfunctional couple and individuals. You believe it when they hurl insults at each other like throwing knives. Weaving is especially good as an ice-cold blonde bitch. Her Australian accent is the icing on the cake. Segel\u2019s goofball persona should get in the way, but it doesn\u2019t. It actually makes him seem more dangerous. It\u2019s a perfect contrast to the dark, sometimes disturbing things going on. Lewis brings a lot of her character from NBK to her character here. Like Mallory Knox, Allegra reacts with unbridled glee to terrible violence. Olyphant\u2019s villain here might not rank as high as the ones he played in Scream 2 and Live Free or Die Hard, but it\u2019s still solid work. Jardine, a former MMA fighter, capably plays the psychotic muscle of the team. Paul Guilfoyle (CSI) is the wild card of Over Your Dead Body<\/strong>. He plays Dan\u2019s father, a cranky old guy living in an assisted care facility. Assisted care is the last thing he needs. He still has a few moves left in him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Talk about OTT, the second half of Over Your Dead Body<\/strong> is just that. I don\u2019t want to reveal too much, but the violence is extremely graphic. Members of the audience actually gasped. Here the thing about it though, it\u2019s all for exaggerated comic effect. It\u2019s supposed to be funny. We are talking about a black comedy here. They don\u2019t come much blacker than this. Personally, I\u2019m pleased to see a movie that doesn\u2019t hold back for the more sensitive viewers. They have no business seeing a movie like Over Your Dead Body<\/strong> anyway. It\u2019s not a film for the after church crowd. If you have a warped sensibility, it\u2019s definitely for you.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over Your Dead Body (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IFC\/Comedy-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 105 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody violence and gore, sexual assault, pervasive language, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jorma Taccone\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Matthew Compton\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Matt Weston\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: April 24, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Paul Guilfoyle, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Keith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/over-your-dead-body.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14367,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14364\/revisions\/14367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}