Over Your Dead Body Movie Review

​Samara Weaving is everywhere these days. She was in “Ready or Not 2,” which is still in theaters, and is also in “Carolina Caroline,” being released in the theaters on June 5 of this year. It’s still in the film festival circuit. The woman is on a hot streak. I’m sure it won’t be her last.

With this new film, she signed on to present to her fans an absurd, gross film, appropriately titled “Over Your Dead Body.”  It’s based on the Norwegian-language film “I Onde Dager,” aka “The Trip,” written by Tommy Wirkola, Nick Ball, and John Niven. The screenplay for this film was written by two SNL writers, Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney. Look up all of the work these writers have previously done. If you like dark comedy, they know how to present it to you. Was this movie perfect, no, but it was damn good and I really enjoyed myself. I assume everyone else did, as well, because the theater was filled with laughter. I had a blast with this deranged story.

Director Jorma Taccone, who directed over twenty episodes of SNL and worked on Parks and Recreation, as well, doesn’t have many features under his belt, but with this script, he will be given more opportunities to do just that very thing. The trailer had me interested, and I was expecting a lot from this cast. They didn’t let me down. They were crazy good, went to emotional and physical extremes to let this intense, purely insane story play out. The timeline is all over the place.

This couple, Dan and Lisa, played by Jason Segel and Samara Weaving, hate one another so much that they want to kill one another. They have both planned it to a tee, and they have flawless alibis. They’ve perfected the stories they’ll tell the police, even managing the emotions they’ll need to sell the deception. They are constantly arguing about who’s better than who, even debating about who would excel in the department of getting away with it. Who can manage being sad best? Dan releases one little tear down his cheek. He wins! They didn’t count on one thing: the escaped prisoners living in the attic.

Dan’s grumpy pop makes an appearance. He may be the best part of the unnecessarily long, over-two-hour movie. The worst part was the man-on-man rape. It was a total gaffe. It isn’t good no matter what it’s use, just wrong, but selling it to try and get a laugh, is not what you want to see out of a comedy.

There’s not much to dislike, outside of it starting out dreadfully slow, but when you meet Dad, the wait is worth it. It’s not worth going to the theater. Visuals can be seen from your home television just fine. You’ll have a bloody good time, though. “Over Your Dead Body” was entertaining. I could have done without so much gore, so I’m warning you that it’s there the entire movie. But to end this, you know how characters in a big horror franchise kill, kill, and kill some more? This has that. It’s a comedic slasher flick, almost. The death keeps going and going and going…