The Lonely Island's Jorma Taccone turned a Norwegian thriller into this comedy turducken

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Published Apr 2, 2026, 11:07 AM EDT

Watch the first trailer from the 'tonal turducken' Over Your Dead Body, starring Jason Segel and Samara Weaving

Maried couple Lisa (Samara Weaving) and Dan (Jason Segal), both disheveled and wearing all black, lie on the floor wrestling each other for a shotgun in Over Your Dead Body

The press kit for Jorma Taccone's upcoming horror-comedy Over Your Dead Body calls the movie a "tonal turducken" — basically a horror movie stuffed into a thriller stuffed into an action flick. That's a lot to cram into one film, but the red-band trailer — which is age-restricted and only viewable on YouTube — suggests that the Lonely Island member and director of MacGruber and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping has a clear idea of a throughline that connects all these different genres. Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) and Samara Weaving (the Ready or Not movies) star as Dan and Lisa, a couple who head to a remote cabin for a vacation, each planning to murder the other. Those plans are interrupted when a pair of escaped convicts (Juliette Lewis and Timothy Olyphant) and a prison guard break into the cabin.

The film is based on the 2021 Norwegian film The Trip, from Dead Snow writer-director Tommy Wirkola. (Who, incidentally, has a survival-thriller of his own, the shark movie Thrash, hitting Netflix on April 10.) But fans of this specific kind of feuding-couple thriller-comedy might also see some similarities to the standout 1994 action-comedy The Ref, starring comedian Denis Leary as a cat burglar who unwillingly becomes a marriage counselor when he takes miserable rich couple Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis hostage during a home invasion.

Timothy Olyphant , Juliette Lewis, and Keith Jardine, all holding guns, cross in front of a lit-up house at night in Over Your Dead Body

Over Your Dead Body seems to veer away from marital intervention and toward comedic violence, though — there's a lot of blood in the initial trailer, and a lot of body parts getting slashed, smashed, or perforated in various ways as the characters enter what looks like a multi-sided free-for-all.

"I feel really proud, because it’s a difficult tone to thread,” Taccone says in a press quote. “It’s so many different movies. It’s almost like three movies in one, actually. The first half is this sort of suspenseful, almost thriller of ‘What’s going to happen?’ The second is home invasion, and then it just becomes a full-out action movie. There are points where even horror meets comedy, and the two genres can be very similar in terms of editing for a punchline or a gory moment or a jump scare.”

Over Your Dead Body will open in theaters on April 24.

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