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Over Your Dead Body

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When miserable couple Dan and Lisa retreat to a remote cabin for a romantic reset, each arrives with a secret plan to kill the other. However, their carefully plotted traps and counterplots quickly unravel when strangers crash the weekend with plans of their own. As the toxic getaway spirals into chaotic carnage, Dan and Lisa must soon figure out if they want to save their marriage or survive it.
Over Your Dead Body

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Critics Consensus

With Hitchcockian flair, inventive gore, and electric performances, Over Your Dead Body blends tense thrills and playful twists into a satisfying, if occasionally conventional, ride.

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Monica Castillo Little White Lies Mar 19
While not entirely flawless in its execution, Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body is a thrilling and hilarious horror movie that delivers plenty of plot twists and gruesome wounds. Go to Full Review
Zachary Lee TheWrap Mar 19
Taccone and his team have managed to take the existential and interior strife common in a marriage and transfigure it into a riotous and convivial physical battle for survival and sanity. Go to Full Review
Dex Wesley Parra Austin Chronicle Mar 18
In its best stretches a rip-roaring thriller comedy with satisfying savagery, Over Your Dead Body is ultimately undone by the flat script. Go to Full Review
Aaron Neuwirth We Live Entertainment 18h
6/10
There is enough to laugh along with, let alone root for and consider, as we see tables being turned in different manners throughout the feature. Go to Full Review
Meredith Jill Brown Upcoming Horror Movies 1d
9/10
Intense, gory, and startlingly violent, wow! Go to Full Review
Sharai Bohannon HorrorBuzz Apr 7
7/10
'Over Your Dead Body' feels like the spiritual successor to those dark comedies we don’t get as often anymore. As a millennial, it is hard to not have some fun with this one even while wishing a couple of different choices had been made. Go to Full Review
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Synopsis When miserable couple Dan and Lisa retreat to a remote cabin for a romantic reset, each arrives with a secret plan to kill the other. However, their carefully plotted traps and counterplots quickly unravel when strangers crash the weekend with plans of their own. As the toxic getaway spirals into chaotic carnage, Dan and Lisa must soon figure out if they want to save their marriage or survive it.
Director
Jorma Taccone
Producer
Kelly McCormick, David Leitch, Aram Tertzakian, Nick Spicer, Guy Danella, Lee Kim
Screenwriter
Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney
Distributor
Independent Film Company
Production Co
XYZ Films, Resolute Films, 87North
Rating
R (Sexual Content|Gore|Sexual Assault|Pervasive Language|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 24, 2026, Wide
Runtime
1h 45m