A marriage getaway is supposed to fix things. Maybe there’s a little awkward small talk, some forced eye contact over wine, and a tense walk in the woods before both people agree they’ll at least try to act normal for a weekend. Over Your Dead Body is not doing that. The new Red Band trailer for the upcoming action comedy thriller takes that familiar couples-retreat setup and gleefully throws it into a blender, with Jason Segel and Samara Weaving playing a deeply miserable husband and wife who each show up to a remote cabin with the exact same idea: murder the other one first.
The trailer also makes room for Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis, which only adds to the sense that this movie knows exactly how much fun it wants to have with its twisted premise. Over Your Dead Body comes from director Jorma Taccone, with a screenplay by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney.
The film’s official synopsis reads, “When miserable couple Dan and Lisa retreat to a remote cabin for a romantic reset, each arrives with a secret plan to murder the other. Their carefully plotted traps and counterplots quickly unravel when a dangerous crew crashes the weekend with plans of their own. As the toxic getaway spirals into chaotic carnage, Dan and Lisa must survive the intruders, each other, and figure out if they want to save their marriage or survive it.”
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Is ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Worth Watching?
Collider’s review stated that Over Your Dead Body starts with a clever setup and two strong lead performances, but it falls apart once it moves away from its best idea. The film begins as a dark comedy about a miserable married couple who both secretly plan to kill each other during a trip to a cabin. That setup gives the movie a fun, nasty energy early on, and for a while, it feels like it could become a sharp twist on the killer-couple formula.
Over Your Dead Body proves that it’s hard to make a film like this work, balancing the stakes of the very real threat of death with a charming romantic comedy. It’s a hard mixture to thread, and with its strange shift in tone fairly early on, Over Your Dead Body can’t maintain that balance for long before veering completely off the rails. What starts as a more violent Mr. and Mrs. Smith takes an unexpectedly brutal turn, becoming borderline unamusing. Taccone pushes himself to try and break from his usual comic mold, but with Over You Dead Body, he ends up pushing too far.
Over Your Dead Body will open in theatres on April 24.
Release Date
April 24, 2026
Runtime
105 minutes
Director
Jorma Taccone
Writers
Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney
Producers
Aram Tertzakian, David Leitch, Guy Danella, Kelly McCormick, Lee Kim, Nick Spicer