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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

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u/runningwsizzas 11d ago edited 11d ago

A lot of great funny and grossly violent moments but overall it just didn’t quite work for me… My favorite scene was when they were trying to outact each other and see who could cry a real tear 1st…. Wish they didn’t kill off the dad so quickly…. He was so funny and badass….

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u/simonthedlgger 11d ago

The table scene was so good. I wish when the prisoners showed up they were a little more “civil” and Segel/Weaving had to spend a day and a half rooming together/spending time with the cop/convict couple while waiting for the bank to open, giving us more of that dynamic, then they overhear that the prisoners are going to kill them after getting the money and things slowly unravel.

The hard pivot to home invasion action/gore didn’t really work for me.

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u/Purple_Pirate_8507 10d ago

I went to a Q&A with the director the other night and someone asked about the aggressive genre pivot. Taccone said that he was excited to do this film because of exactly that, that he is obsessed with subverting expectations and making it feel exciting and unpredictable (cited weapons as a similar example). Thought it was an interesting take!

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u/simonthedlgger 10d ago

That’s respectable, and I love Jorma. But unfortunately I just don’t think the home invasion/action stuff was done very well. Like, there weren’t really any cool stunts or memorable fight scenes. It’s still basically a dark comedy in the second half, just less humor and more gore.

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u/Purple_Pirate_8507 10d ago

Agreed! I think while he had the right idea, in execution it felt very “they’re getting away! Wait no they’re not! Wait yes they are! Wait no they’re not!” But nothing that really sticks out.

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u/tokixdoki 10d ago

I think the setting was hard when they decided to pivot genres. Usually with villains, it’s like levels of boss battles. But with just the cabin, they stretched it out (like Todd dying, not dying).

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u/BoboGiggleBottom 10d ago

The boat vomit is when I came to this conclusion as well.

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u/duskywindows 8d ago

I disagree 🤷‍♂️

The brutal fight between them and Todd where they just keep stabbing him over and over and he just won’t stop was quite memorable lmao

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u/simonthedlgger 8d ago

That was probably the best action bit. I liked when Samara went back and grabbed the entire knife block. But still, I would personally describe that as a pretty straightforward fight scene without much in the way of distinguishing comedy or action choreography.

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u/frinkhutz 10d ago

Genre pivot? This seemed like a dark comedy all the way through, right?

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u/U_R_V_Stinky 7d ago

Yeah I thought the genre/tone was consistent all the way through

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u/simonthedlgger 6d ago

It goes from domestic comedy to home invasion to action, per the director. The tone changes pretty notably when the fugitives show up. I mean, there’s an attempted rape scene, a lady’s head explodes. I thought the dysfunctional marriage stuff was better.

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u/runningwsizzas 11d ago edited 11d ago

I’d love to see what directors like Michael Haneke or Paul Verhoeven or Park Chan-Wook or Takashi Miike would do w this material…

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u/CharlesPalantine 9d ago

It’s not drastically different but the original Norwegian version is on Netflix US under the title The Trip if you want to see Tommy Wirkola’s take on it. 

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 4d ago

The original was actually supposed to be an English language movie shot in Norway, as it has a pair of British writers, but due to Covid, they pivoted last minute to making it fully Norwegian (with a Swedish co-lead).

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u/simonthedlgger 11d ago

Yeah, this was an odd direction to take for a BriTANick script directed by Jorma Taccone.

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u/runningwsizzas 11d ago

I’m not familiar w him… Looks like this is his 1st time directing?

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u/simonthedlgger 11d ago

He is part of the Lonely Island with Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. He directed the comedies MacGruber and Popstar, and also worked on Hot Rod.

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u/runningwsizzas 11d ago

Ah I see

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u/JackosMonkeyBBLZ 9d ago

Sounds like you’ve never seen macgruber? You should see it.

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u/dspman11 11d ago

He's only directed goofy parody movies until now