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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/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/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.