{"id":361564,"date":"2026-04-03T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:20:07","slug":"marriage-is-messy-murder-in-the-red-band-trailer-for-over-your-dead-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361564\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage is messy murder in the red band trailer for Over Your Dead Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

We weren\u2019t necessarily huge fans of Jorma Taccone\u2019s new bloody dark comedy\u00a0Over Your Dead Body<\/a>, with\u00a0A.V. Club\u00a0Film Editor Jacob Oller giving the Lonely Island veteran\u2019s marital murder flick a C review. And, honestly, you can see some of our issues with the film\u2014which stars Samara Weaving and Jason Segel as a married couple who have the bad fortune to plan each other\u2019s murders for the same weekend getaway\u2014right there in its latest trailer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like, even in a two-minute promo, you can sort of see how the film seems to lose interest in that original premise pretty early, with a group of criminals played by Keith Jardine, Juliette Lewis, and Timothy Olyphant suddenly barging into the initial \u201cdueling murders\u201d idea about a minute into the proceedings. At the same time, it\u2019s hard to deny that there\u2019s at least some energy\u00a0to the thing, as the new red band trailer hints at some fraction of the (apparently pretty extensive) violence that Taccone puts his cast\u2019s bodies through. (In fact, YouTube\u2019s squeamish enough about it that it won\u2019t let us embed the trailer here.) If nothing else, Olyphant and Weaving\u2014the latter getting to go darker after playing a distressed but fundamentally goodhearted heroine in the Ready Or Not\u00a0films\u2014seem to have some fun cutting loose with their murderous impulses.<\/p>\n

Over Your Dead Body\u00a0is adapted from 2021 Norwegian film\u00a0The Trip, with Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney handling the script. The film arrives in theaters on April 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We weren\u2019t necessarily huge fans of Jorma Taccone\u2019s new bloody dark comedy\u00a0Over Your Dead Body, with\u00a0A.V. Club\u00a0Film Editor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-361564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}