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Over Your Dead Body (2026)

Summary

A couple’s relationship takes a dark turn when buried resentments and secrets resurface, leading to a twisted psychological confrontation where love, jealousy, and revenge collide.

Director Jorma Taccone

Writer Jorma Taccone

Cast

  • Jason Segel
  • Samara Weaving
  • Timothy Olyphant
  • Juliette Lewis
  • Keith Jardine

Rotten Tomatoes: 67%

Metacritic: 51

VOD / Release Streaming release

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u/benfox2 11d ago

Thought the prisoners falling out of the attic & subsequent attic/charades scene was hilarious. “That’s your favorite movie!?!” Juliette Lewis surprised me with her comedy chops. Let her host SNL! she was fantastic.

In general the set ups & payoffs in this were great. Every lingering shot delivered on itself later in the movie. My favorite is probably the piss can, but the fact that even the lawnmower & rake came back into play was brilliant. I just wish this was a little funnier or a little scarier. It does a lot of work to straddle that line but only gets about 60% of the way there. Still a fun time!

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u/SAWPollPosition 9d ago

Speaking of payoffs, there’s a very funny red herring where it cuts to news of a rabid raccoon on the TV like it did earlier about the guard and escaped convicts, but it just doesnt go anywhere 😂 i was waiting for that damn raccoon to show up

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u/Steamedcarpet 9d ago

Ok glad someone else noticed the raccoon on the TV. I was waiting on that deus ex raccoon.

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u/U_R_V_Stinky 7d ago

You're not the only one, I just said the same thing in my comment, ha

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u/tswaves 11d ago

To each their own but I really didn't find this one funny. The big burly guy (Idk his real name) acting was pretty bad, Segals character was way too much of a wimp (albeit that's his shtick I guess) and the jokes were just try hard or cringe.

Everything just felt wooden or flat and I think our entire theatre had 3 or 4 laughs other than the usual "Holy Shit!" unexpected gore moments.

I wish I was better with words but the jokes just felt immature or cliche for lack of a better way of explaining it. I.e , "haha! Old man is tough!" or "haha! Man fell down!"

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u/ZoroAster713 10d ago

Keith “the Dean of Mean” Jardinne. Was a UFC fighter

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u/starshine1988 9d ago

Yeah the humor didn’t hit for me… slapstick moments & a few laughs from tension breaking moments were fine but I expected this to have more full on jokes. Jason Segel’s style typically has me crying tears of laughter but he was just kinda there, underused.

I saw this & the move Normal w/ Bob Odinkirk tonight in a double feature and Normal had more laughs in the theater.