As the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) grows closer, more first looks and trailers for titles premiering there have begun to drop. It’s building up the anticipation and excitement, and the announcement of today’s release is an especially exciting one for fans of horror comedies.
Today, IFC released the trailer for Over Your Dead Body, directed by Saturday Night Live alumnus and Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone (Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping, MacGruber). It will have its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday, March 14.
“Jorma Taccone stands as one of the most creative and reliably brilliant voices in comedy and we are delighted to collaborate with him and our friends at 87North, XYZ, and Resolute Films on Over Your Dead Body,” said Head of Independent Film Group Scott Shooman. “The film is a dark, twisted, and riotous action comedy, with a killer cast – a perfect recipe to delight audiences on the big screen.” Indeed, this is also the perfect kind of film to premiere at SXSW.
Starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Paul Guilfoyle, and Keith Jardine, the film follows a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.
A remake of the Norwegian cult thriller I Onde Dager (The Trip), Taccone brings Segel and Weaving together at odds with each other. It isn’t an expected pairing for a couple at odds with each other trying to commit murder, but after seeing the trailer, there is some energy that is matched there. Helping, undoubtedly, is Taccone, whose last film was 2016’s Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping.
Check out the trailer below!
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY | TRAILER
Over Your Dead Body will make its world premiere at SXSW on March 14. It hits theaters April 24.
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