Over Your Dead Body Trailer Turns Marriage Into Murder
If you have ever looked at your partner and thought “I could absolutely survive without you,” then Over Your Dead Body might be your new favourite date night film.
The red band trailer has dropped for the upcoming action comedy horror, and it wastes absolutely no time letting you know this is not your standard couples retreat. Instead, it is a full blown bloodbath where love, trust, and basic human decency are all optional extras.
Leading the chaos are Jason Segel and Samara Weaving, which is already a combination that should have people paying attention.
Segel, best known to many for his long running role in How I Met Your Mother, has spent the last few years shifting into more layered and dramatic territory. His recent work on Apple TV’s Shrinking showed a more grounded, emotionally complex side, while earlier roles in films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall proved he has impeccable comedic timing. Here, he gets to blend both sides again, except this time with significantly more attempted murder.
Opposite him is Samara Weaving, who at this point might be one of the most reliable names in modern horror. After breaking out in Ready or Not, where she turned a wedding night into an absolute nightmare, she has continued to carve out a niche in genre films that balance violence with dark humour. Between The Babysitter, Scream VI, and Azrael, Weaving has become very comfortable running, screaming, and usually surviving situations that would send most people straight out of the film within ten minutes.
Putting these two together as a deeply unhappy couple is already a strong hook. Giving them both secret plans to kill each other is even better.
The story follows Dan and Lisa, a couple whose relationship has reached that charming stage where communication has broken down completely and murder feels like a reasonable solution. They head to a remote cabin in an attempt to reconnect, which in horror terms is already a terrible idea. What neither of them knows is that the other has arrived with a carefully planned scheme to end the marriage permanently.
Naturally, everything goes wrong.
Before either of them can successfully carry out their plan, a group of dangerous intruders crashes the weekend, turning what was meant to be a private assassination attempt into a full scale fight for survival. From there, the film spirals into chaos, with Dan and Lisa forced to work together, betray each other, and try not to get killed by anyone else in the process.
It is a simple setup, but one that allows for plenty of twists, reversals, and very messy violence.
The film is a remake of the 2021 Norwegian movie The Trip, directed by Tommy Wirkola, which gained attention for its mix of brutal action and pitch black humour. This new version looks to lean even further into that tone, with bigger set pieces and a cast clearly enjoying the madness.
Behind the camera, the project is in strong hands. Jorma Taccone directs, known for his work with The Lonely Island as well as films like Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping and MacGruber. His background in comedy suggests the film will not just rely on gore, but will fully embrace the absurdity of its premise.
The script comes from Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, also with roots in Saturday Night Live, which again points to a sharp, irreverent tone underneath all the violence.
The supporting cast is stacked with familiar faces. Timothy Olyphant, who has built a career playing effortlessly cool and dangerous characters in projects like Justified and Deadwood, adds instant presence. Juliette Lewis, no stranger to intense roles thanks to films like Natural Born Killers and the series Yellowjackets, brings her usual unpredictable energy. Paul Guilfoyle, known from CSI, and Keith Jardine, who has appeared in films like Love Lies Bleeding, round out a group that feels more than capable of handling the film’s mix of action and chaos.
Production comes from 87North, the company behind high energy action films like Nobody and Bullet Train, alongside XYZ Films, which has a strong track record in genre cinema. That combination suggests the film will not be holding back when it comes to violence or spectacle.
Over Your Dead Body A Hit With Festival Goers
The film has already made a strong impression on the festival circuit, picking up the Audience Award at SXSW, which is usually a good sign for something designed to entertain a crowd. Additional screenings are lined up at Beyond Chicago, Overlook Film Festival, and RiverRun, building momentum ahead of its theatrical release.
Over Your Dead Body arrives in cinemas on April 24, carrying an R rating for strong bloody violence, gore, sexual content, and language, which feels about right given the premise.
If the trailer is anything to go by, this is less a story about saving a marriage and more about surviving one.
