Over Your Dead Body

A remote cabin, a struggling couple, and a weekend billed as a chance to reconnect: the joke is that both parties have arrived with murder on the agenda. That symmetry is the whole design, and it is a good one, turning every loaded silence and every offer of a drink into a possible move. The tone sits in the pitch-black comic register where a bad marriage and a crime scene become hard to tell apart, and the isolation guarantees that neither of them has anywhere convenient to hide a mistake.

It suits viewers who like their comedy mean and their thrillers domestic, the sort who enjoy watching two people be appalling to each other with impeccable manners. Expect a contained cast, a tight running time and plotting that keeps flipping the advantage. Fans of dark relationship comedies and cabin-set two-handers will find plenty to enjoy, provided the humour of mutual loathing appeals. Sharp, nasty fun for a night with a low tolerance for sincerity.