Over Your Dead Body Review!

Añadido: 2026-05-04

[00:00:00]All right, I've done it, y'all. I've reached final white girl form. The basic white girl shirt. I just thrifted it.

[00:00:06]White baby tea, the three little monarchs. This is it. And why is it cute? Like, it's cute. I feel like I should be in a slick back bun and like stacked gold jewelry. But you know what?

[00:00:16]I'm embracing my roots. I am white.

[00:00:18]Okay, I'm white and I'm pro Wait, let me start with a different corny bit. Samara Weaving in another dark comedy where she screams and gets covered in blood.

[00:00:26]Likely place for her to be. Okay. Yeah, over your dead body. Let's get into it.

[00:00:32]This movie came out of nowhere, but so did I. If you're new here, so hi. How you doing, cutie? You want to start coming here often? Click that subscribe button and maybe we can grab a drink after the show. I am the Antichrist. I'm Satan's favorite daughter. It is great to meet you. So, if you could order me a glass of Jesus Christ's blood at the bar, that would be great. I love the idea of that waiting for me after I finish reviewing this movie. But I don't think I'll join you unless you also click the like button and the notification bell because how else do I know that you're going to come back? I'm needy and I'm a self-admitted tryhard with my YouTube intros. This is a horror review, not a stand-up routine. Am I right? Yeah, it is. I swear. Okay. Over your dead body just released this past weekend and I fear that it's going to be overshadowed by Michael the biopic that apparently no one has faith in its accuracy and yet they've sold out basically every showtime this weekend.

[00:01:16]So, today I'm here to make some noise for this dark comedy. Like I said, it came out of nowhere. I was at my theater one day just minding my big ass business when I saw the poster for this movie and I was like, "Huh?" My shoes screeched on the floor like a cartoon. What do you mean? There is what appears to be a dark comedy starring Samara Weaving and Jason Seagull as the leads and it's coming out soon. I had not heard hide nor hair of this film, but then again, I do tend to do things very old-fashioned. I typically discover movies via scrolling on my AMC app. So, I don't doubt that they've been doing marketing and interviews and stuff, but none of that had ever crossed my desk. And for this, I'm so glad. I never saw a trailer, but I actually very accurately guessed what the flavor and the plot of this movie was. I was like, "Okay, so just judging on the poster, they're holding weapons, looking at each other. It's called Over Your Dead Body." I thought, "All right, we've got Samara Weaving in yet another sham marriage of some kind, and at some point they're going to be trying to kill each other. Bring it on." And you'd think that that would start to feel oversaturated by now, but it really doesn't. This movie basically met my expectation exactly and I think that that is because of the casting of Jason Seagull. I was a big How I Met Your Motherhead in high school and I have still never forgiven the writers of that show. But the genius of Jason Seagull really can't be understated. Freaks and Geeks. Love that show. Love you man. I think that's kind of an underrated comedy. I don't know. I haven't revisited in a couple years but I remember loving his character. And Dispatch is from Elsewhere. Really weird show but it has huge names in it. He was one of the creators and writers of the show and it had me hooked for seven out of the eight episodes. They really kind of beefed it in the finale, but that's neither here nor there. I also hear that shrinking is great. I haven't seen that.

[00:02:49]The point is he doesn't just do mainstream comedy. He does more niche and serious kind of satire as well. He's a great dramatic actor. Samar Weaving does so much in the dark comedy subgenre that at this point her casting doesn't necessarily indicate that another banger is imminent. But Jason Seagal, okay, now we're talking. Now we know we got some budget. I also didn't know going in that Tommy Wcola was one of the uh story creators. He was one of the producers. I love his past stuff. So that probably would have gotten me more excited because I would have been thinking about his past stuff like Violent Night. But not knowing that I let my expectations get up to about like a 3.5. I never let myself get too too excited for things.

[00:03:30]It's very rare when you just hear that the buzz is so good. Like with Sinners, I was like, you know what? Let's let's just get hype with this. I was just expecting like a solid dark comedy. I didn't think that it was going to shoot for the moon or anything and it basically met that expectation if not slightly exceeding it. All the subject matter was more or less exactly what I expected. But there was a little chunk of the comedy that sucked the air out of the room for a quick second. The movie gets really weird for like a single scene where you're like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." And you may be thinking, "Well, that's good. It's about a married couple. They should do something grounded at some point to keep it relatable." That is not what I mean.

[00:04:04]There's some really aggressive rape jokes at a certain turning point of the film. And I think that it's there to do one of two things. Maybe my interpretation is that it's either there to one, go, "Hey, the the stakes are very, very real. It's time to lock in with your investment right now." Or two, it's supposed to be in line with the over-the-top absurdism of the comedy of the entire movie. In which case, I'm like, "Oh, no. Oh, that's not >> Oh, that's not >> in the sense that." And I think it leans towards the latter, unfortunately, which I'll expand upon those thoughts in the spoiler section. Sorry if that's a mild spoiler, but I feel like it's the kind of thing that you really only benefit from knowing going in. It was very uncomfortable for me personally, and I definitely could have done without. Most of the rest of the comedy of the movie I found to be either serviceable or great.

[00:04:50]There was like one or two lines of dialogue that were so corny and off-kilter that I was like, how did that material make it into this movie? You were doing so well in maintaining the tone. Like, how did that make it in there? So that and the really intense assault jokes were the only thing that I felt like were a complete misfire. But most of the time it's great. It's fine.

[00:05:08]Sometimes the comedy will even be like a little visual gag referring back to the first act of the film and filling in a story gap that I wasn't even thinking about anymore. And when it's filled in, it's like, oh, there's there's that. But what my audience probably cares about most is the horror. This isn't really a horror movie, so sorry, but sometimes I do review horror adjacent things here.

[00:05:28]Conceptually, a lot of the movie is horrific and people die. It's essentially a slasher. It just doesn't follow the masked killer structure. And there's some shockingly good gore.

[00:05:37]Actually, similarly to The Mummy, I actually had to like squint my eyes sometimes, shield myself of the horrors with my eyelashes. And that's saying something after The Mummy. But it's like I was saying in that review, when gore is used more sparingly, sometimes it's even more effective because it'll be more shocking, as was the case in Over Your Dead Body, I think. Now, in terms of the cast, I walked into this not knowing that it was also going to be starring Timothy Olafan and Juliet Lewis. And does the cast live up to their full potential in this movie? In my opinion, yes. Samaro Weaving isn't really doing anything that you haven't seen from her before. So, but you know, she she's not new to this. She's true to this. So, her performance is pitch perfect. Timothy Olant, he is doing what the role demands and it's it's fine.

[00:06:17]What I personally would have loved is to see his character get hammed up even a little bit more. kind of like how we saw him in Scream 2, but they reserve that for Juliet Lewis. She is seemingly an interesting character in the real world.

[00:06:30]I've never really deep dived into her.

[00:06:33]All I can say is I hope she's doing well after breaking free of Scientology a couple years ago. I just think in recent years she's been painted a little bit weirdly in the media. I think because of how she clashed with her storyline in Yellow Jackets and ultimately, well, I guess I probably shouldn't give spoilers for that, but I think that can kind of tend to give you misconceptions about a person, especially if you learn that they were active in Scientology. When she first pops up in this movie, I'll admit I had the thought like, "O, oh, I hope that she does all right. She doesn't take me out here." I feel like because her character got so derailed in Yellow Jackets and the subject matter was really difficult for her personally.

[00:07:07]I think that came through in the performance just a little bit. like it didn't seem fully committed. So, I was a little worried like, oh, is this going to be kind of the same thing where she's not fully here. But, no, she's brilliant in this movie. She's very committed to every moment. I feel like they really let her go off leash. But, I think my favorite performance almost by a country mile is Jason Seagull. Similarly, he gets to go off leash. He does all my favorite seagullisms. You see a lot of all of this in How I Met Your Mother, but you got screaming crazy seagull. The calm and measured yet sadistic line delivery seagull. the warm heart of the film. Seagull Paul Gilfoil was new to me. Also, hope I'm pronouncing that correctly, King. He was definitely another standout. His character really finds his way. I think initially in his earlier scenes, I found it to be like a little bit forced, which then eventually transitioned to me belly laughing at his line delivery. There also was a very surprising cameo that managed to be a standout performance. I cannot wait to talk about that in spoilers. Overall, is the movie amazing? No. It's a serviceable story about the woes of marriage in a very, very fun, over-the-top package. I saw somebody say on Letterbox that it should have been directed by Edgar Wright, and I was like, damn, they kind of ate with that.

[00:08:16]I think that more about the absurdism might have landed had he been directing.

[00:08:21]Plus, you know, hopefully he would have brought on like Bill Pope or David M.

[00:08:24]Dunlab, and the cinematography would have been dialed up to an 11. No sense bemoning what it could have been, though. It's fun. In fact, there was another girl in my theater who looked to be around my age, and she also was there alone, sitting in the same row as me, and she and I were both cackling at like all the same jokes. We were two of maybe only six people there in the theater at a Thursday afternoon matinea, you know, preview screening. So, our laughter was responsible for like filling the entire theater. After the movie, we both were in the bathroom and she looked at me and she was like, "That was really fun." I said, "I'm just glad I wasn't the only person cackling." and she said at a certain point I'm just having the time I'm having. You know, I do know and I hope that she's having a good day today.

[00:09:04]Go see this movie. You may connect with a cool girl in the bathroom afterwards.

[00:09:08]Heck, you might even find love. If I wasn't taken, I would definitely be hitting on the people at the matinea showtimes. Those are my people. I gave this one a four out of five on Letterbox, and I ended up kind of mocking one of the most popularly used phrases on that app. If Samar Weaving tries to kill me, she caught me slipping. Do not prosecute her. 16,048 likes on letter boxed. There's always one. So, I thought that I would get ahead of it this time and um [ __ ] on it.

[00:09:33]I guess I'm such a hypocrite, though, because whenever people say this happened to my friend John once, I still think it's hilarious. Realistically, I think this movie is more like a 3.75 out of five. For me, I was teetering between a three and a half and four stars, so I just decided to round up. I would watch it again for sure. Would like to own it. I recommend that you go see it and try your best to probably see it with a crowd. It might not blow you away, but it's a great popcorn flick.

[00:09:56]Now, let's talk spoilers. First of all, the premise of the movie. I walked into this super blind, only figuring, like I said, that this was going to be about them trying to kill each other. And indeed, that was the case. Dan has made plans to take his wife up to their cabin and kill her. Things obviously go ary and, you know, in the first 15 minutes or so, it gets turned on him. It's revealed that similarly, Lisa was planning on killing Dan. I'm so happy I walked in blind because even though I thought that initially, once the movie gets going, I kind of like release those expectations and then I'm just living in the moment. So, in that moment, I had forgotten that that was my assumption and I was genuinely very surprised by that turn. Every turn of this movie hits so hard because I just knew nothing. One of the biggest laughs for me early on was also in that moment when she tasers him and he starts drooling and she goes, "Ew, ew." I wasn't sure how I was feeling until she turns and then I'm like, "Okay, I'm in this. I'm invested." And I was so on board and in love with this movie basically like kind of until the prisoners showed up. Their conversation at the table is I think my favorite part of the movie. We can debate that later on. A few points about that. Number one, shout out them calling out the age gap and dynamic and the dialogue because I was like, hm, I guess we're like still doing the thing where they pair the older guy with the younger actress.

[00:11:09]Okay. But their age definitely provides context to their drama. I think it's important. the whole movie up till then she's being framed as this villain just like a hyperc critical condescending nasty person and they are both horrible but this conversation at the table illuminates that her behavior is in response to him basically being like a giant manchild. So you discover that their partnership is trapped in this death loop of him being really inadequate, her making him feel like [ __ ] for it and then him further receding into himself and pitying himself, thus perpetuating it. And this kind of couple drama is my bread and butter. The isolated couple drama does so much for me. Have you seen Honeymoon directed by Lee Jani of Fear Street Sleigh? I feel like I bring up this movie whenever I get the chance. Have you seen Sanctuary with Christopher Abbott and Margaret Quali? They're not out in a cabin, but they're like in a high-rise apartment. They're just locked in the whole time. There's What Keeps You Alive, their significant other.

[00:12:03]Those both also take place out in the forest. They're relationship dramas, but also horror movies. So, for this movie, I was so excited literally just to have these two characters back and forth the entire time. I would have been good with that because with strong dialogue and performances, an entire movie can be carried by that. I had completely forgotten that I had been surprised by Timothy Olant and Juliet Lewis's names being in the opening credits. Just forgot that they still had yet to pop up in the movie. I really would have been just good with them being at the table for like the entire rest of the runtime.

[00:12:30]And the best part of the table scene, of course, is when they're both trying so desperately to squeeze a tear out of their eye when they're acting like [ __ ] That was one of the scenes where I think I laughed the most. I thought that when the action moved to the basement and the two of them accidentally kill his friend Henry, who he was in cahoots with, that they were going to come together again in their marriage because they were going to try to cover up their murder of him. So then when they run upstairs and they're still fighting and stuff and they shoot these other humans out of the attic, I was like, "Oh yeah, right.

[00:12:59]Timothy Olant was supposed to be here."

[00:13:01]I also I I've yet to mention that I really enjoyed the plot device of the flashbacks because they really don't overstay their welcome. They're very quick to the point, explain how people got there. It doesn't slow any of the pacing down. It also provides some really funny context, some visual gags, like with the key on the door and with the snowflake sweater. But shortly after they show up, it wasn't long before I was like, "Oh, this is not really the movie I signed up for." I get why it was done. It's all absurd and it provides a lot more meat to the plot, a lot more carnage candy, more of a motivation for Dan and Lisa to fall back in love. they have something much more tangible to like fight against together. What a nice metaphor that it should not be you against your partner, but you and your partner against the problem. But like I said earlier, there just was that one extended really uncomfortable scene.

[00:13:48]This ex warden and these ex- prisoners make Dan play this game where they draw a circle and he and this giant prisoner guy have to try to enter each other.

[00:14:00]Whoever does first wins. And it's just like so it's so over the top. It's it's so something I like I don't want to see.

[00:14:08]The rest of the tone of the movie just feels so much more light-hearted than that. It was that's why I said like it just sucked the wind out of me for a minute. My ass was so clenched and I just was so worried that it was going to derail the vibes of the rest of the movie. Like oh you thought that you signed up for a really funny Edgar Wrightesque marriage dramdy. No, this actually is a deeply serious psychological thriller. I was like, "Oh, no. Please, no." But this is a real turducken of a cinematic experience. It definitely got back on track. Thank god the movie didn't fully take it there.

[00:14:42]And from that point on, we see Dan and Lisa team up. You start seeing Dan as an active protagonist in his life finally.

[00:14:49]Although, when he ballcks Todd in the head, he leaves Lisa tied up in the basement. But it's okay. She figures it out from there. It's mostly a lot of fighting that ensues. I don't think I need to break that down in detail. Just some highlights. I think Lisa bringing over the entire block of knives to like individually stab the the tiny little blades into Todd trying to slow him down from choking out Dan. I thought that was a good moment. I really did not like the line where Todd was like, "Dumbledore, I've caught the snitch." before he follows over and you presume that he's dead. With that, I was like, "What kind of millennial ass garbage line?" I I did not get that at I thought that it was really funny that these prisoners were referring to Dan and Lisa as Ron and Hermione to like dehumanize them a bit, but to have someone actively dying going Dumbledore, I caught the snitch. It's just it's just not funny, is it? It's just not Dan's dad coming back into the mix. I haven't even touched on him yet in the spoiler section, but Dan's dad, your generation needs a good warm Michael coming back into the mix. Oh my god, when he gives it to Kevin in the throat and then drops him, I was gofawing. At first, being really fed up with like the EDM music in Kevin's car and then going from that to actually singing along with it. Oh, that's just some good old man humor. But then when he shows up, I feel like he gets taken out too quickly and everybody just moves on and doesn't really address it. It's not until later you see like a newspaper clipping of, you know, war hero Michael whatever dies. But I guess that moment not really having any real acknowledgement kind of made it better because Dan and Lisa, they're not good people. You know, in the end of the movie, they're in an interview and they say that streaming movies might even be better than seeing movies theatrically.

[00:16:26]So, I don't know. It's It still works.

[00:16:28]The gore of Algra's foot falling apart after being shot with the shotgun.

[00:16:34]Juliet Lewis delivers this hilarious performance. It looks so painful. She really sells it. Trying to like tie her foot back together. It just looks like unimaginable pain. And then she finally can rest. She takes a breath once that's done only for it to be revealed that Dan is standing right there ready to shoot her in the face. The visual comedy of this I was like, "Thank God. Finally visual comedy is back." If we don't fully have slapstick back and and you know, actors doing physical comedy. At least we got some good ass visual gags in this movie. I feel like it's been a while since I've seen that. Again, like I said with the key and with the sweater, I just because I feel like comedy has not been super intelligent for a little while. Things are very much spelled out, especially with like streaming movies and stuff. So to have visual gags, I just feel like I have been trusted as an audience member of this movie. There are a lot of really great moments when they're fighting in and around the cabin, you know, and it takes up like the bulk of the third act, which is fine by me. I think all of that did a little more for me than the actual climax with the three of them on the boat. Dan Lisa end up fighting the only man left, Pete. And I would have really loved for this moment to have Timothy Olafant go fullon Scream 2 vibes, but we don't get that. It's okay. I just wasn't really on board with when, you know, they toss Pete over the edge and Dan is tied to him and so he's he's in the water and he's holding on to Lisa and he's like, "It's okay." Basically telling her that she can let him go. I just found that really corny because she decides to pull him up and it looks super easy. the idea of letting him go just didn't seem like it would be an option at all at that point because I feel like emotionally we'd already turned the tables with them. We had the sweet scene in the closet where he's like, you know, I don't care that you cheated on me and that the baby's not mine. Really, my first thought was just excitement. That was their emotional turn. So, I just found it like really corny and weird that they threw in that moment on the boat as well. But I loved the ending of them deciding to capitalize on their situation and fully just like grift it. the inmov movie I okay first of all the cameo of Kuml Noniani ripping off his shirt amazing especially because he is very self-aware about his physique it was like the entire topic of his last comedy special or something and it's kind of a running joke in the industry as well that just was like chef's kiss also why is dearly deblooded such a good name for a movie that should have been the name of this movie that's way better than over your dead body and now can it not be used as the title of a be movie slasher because it is in this movie. Is that a copyright issue? Does anybody know? What are the rules on this seriously? Because I will take that and run with it. And I know that there are going to be cynical takes that are like, well, if my husband tried to murder me, that would be a dealbreaker. That's just me. Okay, she had a plan to murder him, too. And also, it's a movie. Grow up. It's obviously obviously obviously obviously a highly dramaticized take on just marital problems. It's funny. Get a grip. Like, are people allergic to metaphors these days? I don't know. You do run across that a lot where people literally act like they need the characters to break the fourth wall and tell you that their actions are wrong so that you feel morally sound in consuming it. Not me, baby. I found their relationship in this movie to be adorable cuz it's stupid.

[00:19:41]It's supposed to be stupid. There's a moment where the two of them are trying to get away. They finally get in a car, but they end up crashing it and part of her ear gets taken off and like a bunch of her hair gets ripped off the side of her head. And he starts to appease her when she asks him, you know, does it look okay? and he's like, "Yeah, you you look fine." And then a beat later, he's like, "You know what? I'm not going to be holding things in anymore. If I have a contrasting opinion, I want to be comfortable sharing that with you." And so, there are these pockets of like very real moments that people have in like couples therapy and stuff, but framed in a really exaggerated and really funny way. That's the whole point of the movie. It's just I really cannot imagine getting offended by such a thing or not enjoying the movie because you're like, "Well, he tried to kill her. This is just so [ __ ] up." up. I think those kinds of people would have needed the entire movie to be framed in the way that Dearly Debblooded was. That's about all I've got. This is a real simple one.

[00:20:29]I don't think there's too much else that I didn't touch on. I guess, you know, him losing his fingers also made me a little bit queasy, but but she found them at the end. That also got a big laugh out of me. Yeah. So, shorter review for a simple good time. Did you enjoy this movie? What were your favorite parts? Let me know down below or we can talk about whatever. If you want more from me and you're new here, I have a huge playlist of solo reviews on this channel. I review basically every new major horror movie that releases.

[00:20:53]And if I don't give them dedicated reviews, I do monthly recaps as well.

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