Key Points
Jason Segel and Samara Weaving play a couple plotting each other’s murder.
Timothy Olyphant plays a convicted murderer who escapes prison and hides out in the unhappy couple’s house.
Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone directs the dark comedy.
When it comes to lasting relationships, even psycho killers need to keep things fresh.
Such is the case for serial murderer Pete (Timothy Olyphant) and his prison guard girlfriend Allegra (Juliette Lewis), who has helped him escape confinement and joined him on the run. In Over Your Dead Body, the new action-comedy from Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, the lovebirds encounter an equally complicated and bloodthirsty couple, Samara Weaving‘s Lisa and Jason Segel‘s Dan, while hiding out in their isolated lake cabin.
At first, Pete and Allegra think the place is empty, so when Lisa and Dan later show up for a weekend getaway, the intruders take refuge in the attic. Little do they know, the unhappily married duo is planning on killing one another.
Jason Segel and Samara Weaving in ‘Over Your Dead Body’
Credit: IFC Films /Courtesy Everett
When stray bullets from Lisa and Dan’s battle to the death spray into the attic, Pete, Allegra, and their accomplice Todd (Keith Jardine) come tumbling out of their hiding place and take their unwilling hosts hostage.
From there, Lisa and Dan are tied up and subjected to various forms of torture as their captors attempt to extort them for cash. Plus, it turns out that tormenting this helpless couple helps Pete and Allegra rediscover some of the missing sparks from their own relationship, which has fizzled since the excitement of the prison escape.
“You kill enough people, it honestly starts to get a bit boring,” Pete opines as he prepares to feed Dan’s face to a lawn mower, as seen in Entertainment Weekly‘s exclusive preview (above).
“Like in a relationship, the key is finding ways to keep things fresh. Isn’t that right, honey?” he adds, directing the question towards Allegra, who’s holding Lisa at gunpoint.
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“I’ve stabbed, choked, smothered, melted my old scout master with acid,” he continues. “But one thing I’ve never done is shove someone’s face into a lawn mower. So, thank you for this.”
Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis in ‘Over Your Dead Body’
Credit: IFC Films
“Oh, shut up and watch,” Allegra snaps at Lisa as she begs for Dan’s life. “Go ahead, honey.”
“Isn’t this fun? Trying something new together?” Dan asks sadistically as he lowers Dan’s head into the whirling blades.
See how both couples fare from here when Over Your Dead Body slices into theaters on Friday.
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