SXSW 2026 Review: OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, A Couple Retreats To The Woods To Kill Each Other. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Every year the SXSW Film & TV Festival Headliner section gets more and more genre film-centric, and the 2026 edition is no different. Among this year’s big ticket selections is Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body, an English-language adaptation of Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 black comedy, The Trip. The story of an adversarial couple whose country vacation hides secrets plans that each has to murder the other, Taccone takes the main storyline of the original and tweaks it just enough to make this one a must-see and a rare remake worthy of your attention. Commercial director Dan (Jason Segel) and his struggling actress wife Lisa (Samara Weaving) are going through a rough patch. Dan’s professional dissatisfaction with the banal nature of his job, and Lisa’s inability...

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