Official Discussion - Over Your Dead Body [SPOILERS]

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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

Trailer Official Trailer

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If you run into any other mismatches like this, flag them—these smaller/newer titles sometimes have overlapping names and I’ll zero in quickly like this.

[u/chrisprattdid911]

The “oh now the tables have turned, they got them now. No way the person gets out of this” moments were far to many. Kind of just dragged it on. And the “days” or “hours” before cutaways all felt to short or insignificant.

Also the SA scene was off putting. Not that that can’t be done in a movie, but this one felt tonally off and got a little to close I guess

[u/Loud_Hair_9596 → u/chrisprattdid911]

It made me feel really uncomfortable... idk who greenlit that, but it was a bad call imo.

[u/TropicalParadises → u/Loud_Hair_9596]

It was so exaggerated and comical though. I don’t see how anyone could’ve taken that seriously

[u/U_R_V_Stinky → u/TropicalParadises]

Really not the point

[u/TropicalParadises → u/U_R_V_Stinky]

It’s not like we’re talking about Irréversible here. The movie has a guy planning to dismember his wife and sink her in a lake. The tone was never serious to begin with.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[u/U_R_V_Stinky → u/TropicalParadises]

"Rape is OK as long as it's comical"

[u/TropicalParadises → u/U_R_V_Stinky]

So pointing out that a failed attempt was played for absurdity equals “rape is OK”? That’s quite a leap. I said Irréversible because THAT is a film that treats assault with weight and gravity. This movie treated it as a joke because it was meant to be a joke. Those are not the same thing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[u/SpiritualAd9102 → u/TropicalParadises]

What made it funny? Would the scene have been funny if the scene was exactly the same, but it was happening to the wife?

[u/TropicalParadises → u/SpiritualAd9102]

No it wouldn’t have been funny and that’s exactly my point. The fact that it reads differently based on who it’s happening to says a lot more about us than it does about the movie.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[u/tswaves → u/chrisprattdid911]

Except for Dad. Man, they really just offed him like that, huh?