Dead Lover
Directed by Grace Glowicki
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love. From TMDB
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 87% of 47 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "A bonkers riff on the lengths people will go to for connection, Dead Lover's singular sensibility can be an acquired taste but writer-director Grace Glowicki's vision is admirably one of a kind." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 77 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Josh Korngut of Dread Central gave the film four out of five stars and called it "an outrageously comedic and transgressive love story" that "blurs the lines between beauty and grotesqueness, life and death, crafting a…
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60 of 108 · most liked firstAll the best movies of the year are Canadian! BLUE HERON, MILE END KICKS, NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, DEAD LOVER (Heated Rivalry…). Everyone say thank you Telefilm Canada!
neutral · AI labelView post →So stoked the newest issue of Fango is making its way out into the wild where you can read my profile of Grace Glowicki and her great new film, Dead Lover. Had such a blast talking to her, big fan of everything she does.
neutral · AI labelView post →Had a fun night, went to see Dead Lover, a film by Grace Glowicki, presented in STINK-O-VISION!
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve been loving the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival. Seven films in: Four Mothers, Sally, Secret Mall Apartment, The Shrouds, Dead Lover, Vulcanizadora, Move Ya Body. All recommended…though Vulcanizadora is SUPER messed up
positive · AI labelView post →Closing out Pride month with a nice provocative uncomfortable lineup for my letterboxd #LastFourWatched this week. Fassbinder could really pick THE most beautiful and interesting looking people. Dead Lover creator Grace Glowicki and her co-lead/ partner Ben Petrie are my new #couplesgoals
neutral · AI labelView post →In this #Sundance2025 dispatch @812filmreviews.bsky.social writes about two midnight selections: Grace Glowicki’s exquisitely crafted Gothic comedy-horror DEAD LOVER and Addison Heimann’s psychosexual Sci-Fi-horror film TOUCH ME
neutral · AI labelView post →THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM at Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival ! Screening Nov 26th at 7pm before the feature film MARAMA. You can also catch our co-star Ben Petrie elsewhere in the festival in DEAD LOVER which is also playing! Tix at www.skfilmfest.com
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn't make a top ten for 2025, but DEAD LOVER was my undisputed favorite film I saw last year. Absolutely singular cinema. Perfectly bizarre and grotesque. Grace Glowicki is like a cross between Guy Maddin and Kenneth Anger but more focused and cohesive than either. I'm a devotee for life
positive · AI labelView post →Just saw an advance screening of the movie Dead Lover, which I dead LOVED…in Stink-o-Vision, which I did not love…but I brought the card home to show to the cats. One was not having it (smart), the other one lost his little mind. Check it out if it comes to your theater, but not in Stink-o-Vision
positive · AI labelView post →Amongst our NSW premieres are Lucile Hadzihalilovic's The Ice Tower, Grace Glowiski's Dead Lover, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's A Useful Ghost, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Amanda Kramer's By Design + Charlie Shackleton's Zodiac Killer Project etc @sxswsydney.com
neutral · AI labelView post →So far, my favorite horror movie of 2025 remains* DEAD LOVER. *see what I did there
positive · AI labelView post →The new episode of Feeling Seen has someone I’ve wanted to interview since LAST YEAR’S SUNDANCE! It’s the super talented, super delightfully Canadian indie artist Grace Glowicki! We discuss the impact of BARTON FINK, her amazing movie DEAD LOVER, and more! m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DY...
neutral · AI labelView post →When you still have a wee lingering cold but you really want to see ‘Dead Lover’ at Belfast Film Festival… 😭🤣 #FilmSky belfastfilmfestival.org/whats-on
neutral · AI labelView post →In Grace Glowicki’s “Dead Lover,” a grave digger goes to outrageous lengths to resurrect her lost love in a scrappy DIY theater world. 🪦 Premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Now in select theaters via Cartuna x Dweck. Read more: sndnc.org/3PdXE33
neutral · AI labelView post →U.S. Girls shares the theme for Grace Glowicki's new film Dead Lover 🧟💔 Watch the music video now usgirls.ffm.to/youvegotever...
neutral · AI labelView post →Take a look at Grace Glowicki’s “Dead Lover,” which premiered in the Midnight section at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. In select theaters starting March 19—and yes, it’s delightfully unhinged. 🪦
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Dead Lover at Milwaukee Film Festival. Mixed opinion. On one hand it's insanely funny and the film looks beautiful with its lofi expressionist aesthetic. On the other hand it seems long despite being under 90 minutes and while individual scenes work, I wish they all worked together.
neutral · AI labelView post →MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM 12pm Egyptian EYES WITHOUT A FACE 35mm 1pm LF3 NO HOME MOVIE 2pm Aero AMÉLIE 4pm LF3 ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW intro 4pm Egyptian DEAD LOVER 7pm LF3 KANSAS CITY / PETE KELLY’S BLUES 7pm Egyptian MATADOR 7:30pm Aero PALESTINE 36 10pm LF3 americancinematheque.com/now-showing/
neutral · AI labelView post →Lightbulb Film Distribution have announced that festival-hit Dead Lover wafted into select UK & Irish cinemas in Stink-O-Vision March 20. Check out our review via the link below. mybloodyreviews.com/dead-lover-2...
neutral · AI labelView post →“A loony, earnestly delirious dark romantic film with a handmade quality” (@ebertvoices.bsky.social), DEAD LOVER is a brassy, sassy, macabre story of a lady gravedigger who will stop at nothing to revive the corpse of her deceased boyfriend. Now playing!
neutral · AI labelView post →Love conquers death in director Grace Glowicki's deliriously dark new film DEAD LOVER, opening up for a special two night run at The Frida Cinema on April 3-4 🪦 Just added: both screenings of DEAD LOVER will be presented in scratch-and-sniff Stink-O-Vision! 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/dead-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I've received a scratch and sniff in today's post for a movie I'm to review which is released tomorrow in the UK called Dead Lover which is presented in Stink-O-Vision. Its been years since such a gimmick has been employed, I think it was a John Waters flick that last did it.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just saw Dead Lover and immediately had to rearrange my letterboxd favorites
positive · AI labelView post →And Sunday August 3 will feature screenings of DEAD LOVER, FANBOY, genre & experimental shorts block in STRANGE VISIONS, and the latest Kiyoshi Kurosawa film CLOUD. More info on screenings are available at our website!
neutral · AI labelView post →We're sharing some romance-filled selections premiering at #SXSW Film & TV Festival this March 😍👇 ❣️ The Ballad of Wallis Island 💞 Boxcutter 💘 Dead Lover ❤️🔥 The Threesome Catch more premieres, and feelings, here: ow.ly/lYoC50UUipY
neutral · AI labelView post →"reveals the drives of sex and gender as something beyond all understanding": Grace Glowicki’s camply mannered comic take on the Frankenstein myth DEAD LOVER (2024) screens 1.45pm today at International Film Festival Rotterdam #IFFR projectedfigures.com/2025/02/02/d...
neutral · AI labelView post →DEAD LOVER | Lightbulb unveils digital release date for film festival favourite - Click on the link below for more details mybloodyreviews.com/dead-lover-l...
neutral · AI labelView post →At @projectionbooth.bsky.social, friend of the Gutter Mike White interviews actor/writer/director Grace Glowicki about her new film Dead Lover! culturalgutter.com/2026/04/25/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Grace Glowicki’s outrageous, campy new horror film Dead Lover is now playing in Toronto theatres. It’s at Revue Cinema April 3-9 and at The Fox on April 11 & 12. Select screenings are in Stink-O-Vision and with filmmaker Q&As.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good morning chums! We were lucky enough to see a Grace Glowicki's new film, Dead Lover - in UK cinemas this Friday! If you love gross, raunchy, over the top, theatrical horror shenanigans, this one is for you! Check out our review here! livefrommanchestermorgue.blogspot.com/2026/03/dead...
positive · AI labelView post →DEAD LOVER. The funniest and most inspiring movie I’ve seen all year. I think about it constantly.
unlabelledView post →MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "We’re lucky to live in a world where DEAD LOVER exists—a film disgusting, hilarious, heartfelt, and entirely itself." #DeadLover premiered at #TIFF2025 and will screen @brooklynhorror.bsky.social October 18.
unlabelledView post →EIFF Review 2025: Dead Lover – “The lo-fi sets and sheer sense of fun here were a delight.” Read it here https://bit.ly/4fYJHiM by @LordWoolamaloo #DeadLover #film #indiefilm #EIFF #EIFF2025 #GraceGlowicki
unlabelledView post →Milwaukee Film Festival SFF Roundup: Sally - A biopic about Astronaut Sally Ride Dead Lover - Zombie romance Monster - Creature-among-humans Playing God - A clay sculpture comes to life Eclipse - A fantasy animated feature The Notorious Network - Animated Au Revoir Mon Monde - Apocalypse story
unlabelledView post →Something is in the air… we added one more show of indie scent-sation DEAD LOVER on May 25th! 730pm at NW Film Forum presented in Stink-O-Vision! “…a camp classic in the making.” Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com grandillusioncinema.org/film/dead-lo...
unlabelledView post →#CurrentlyWatching DEAD LOVER It's not often one gets to see a movie filmed in Glorious John Waters-style Stink-O-Vision. I have no idea what I'm in for, but I'll be damned if l miss out on the opportunity to scratch that SNIFF #horrormovies #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →One could go their life never making a film NYT calls “a darkly comical B-movie fantasia on Bride of Frankenstein as directed by a Sapphic theater collective discovering Pink Narcissus during a workshop taught by the maverick Canadian director Guy Maddin” But not DEAD LOVER!
unlabelledView post →Glowicki’s films show little regard for delicacy or gender roles, and are filled with intense and messy feelings. With her latest, Dead Lover, she is turning heads around the world, Alisha Mughal writes.
unlabelledView post →NO WAYYYY I DID TOO! Mine is specifically for the new movie "Maigret an the Dead Lover". I'm going to see it next Saturday with English subtitles < 3
unlabelledView post →We were incredible excited to host the London Premiere of DEAD LOVER, alongside screening the film in very unique and particularly stomach churning stink-o-vision 🤢
unlabelledView post →A round-up of films out of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival -- including Dead Lover, It Needs Eyes, and Camp! bsidesbadlands.com/dead-lover-i...
unlabelledView post →My Brooklyn Horror Film Festival round-up includes mostly not good films! Dead Lover ⭐⭐⭐ It Needs Eyes ⭐⭐ Parasomnia ⭐⭐ Camp ⭐⭐1/2 bsidesbadlands.com/dead-lover-i...
unlabelledView post →I may be at TIFF, but that doesn't mean I can't talk about a Sundance movie. And a Sundance movie as wild and strange as #DeadLover definitely needs to be talked about! youtu.be/4fNqu3bULY8
unlabelledView post →🏆 NEON (@neon-rated.bsky.social) Auteur Award for Uncompromising Visionary in the Visions Section: Grace Glowicki, director, writer, and star of "Dead Lover", which made its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. 📷: Robin Marshall/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival
unlabelledView post →Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) and Grace Glowicki chat with The Film Scorer Podcast about scoring 'Dead Lover' and the film itself 🎵 Listen here thefilmscorer.com/an-interview...
unlabelledView post →"reveals the drives of sex and gender as something beyond all understanding": Grace Glowicki’s camply mannered comic take on the Frankenstein myth DEAD LOVER (2024) screens 1.15pm today at International Film Festival Rotterdam #IFFR projectedfigures.com/2025/02/02/d...
unlabelledView post →Unique, original, weird and gross, words you'll hear no shortage of when it comes to chatting about Grace Glowicki's DEAD LOVER, an outrageous outing "destined for cult film status" (Bloody Disgusting) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxoY...
unlabelledView post →DEAD LOVER Stink-O-Vision screenings turn cinema into a full-body experience. A Stink-O-Vision card created by scent artists unleashes a carefully choreographed bouquet of aromas that sync with key moments in the film. Encore screening tomorrow at NWFF! grandillusioncinema.org/film/dead-lo...
unlabelledView post →DEAD LOVER returns to the big screen & your nostrils on 5/25 at NW Film Forum! Everyone receives a Stink-O-Vision card created by scent artists, unleashing a carefully choreographed bouquet of aromas that sync with key moments in the film. grandillusioncinema.org/film/dead-lo...
unlabelledView post →“…an already ingenious work elevated by [Glowicki’s] enlivening performance… DEAD LOVER is a camp classic in the making.” Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com We present DEAD LOVER in Stink-O-Vision next Monday at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social! grandillusioncinema.org/film/dead-lo...
unlabelledView post →When you think you've seen all possible riffs on Frankenstein, a movie like Dead Lover rocks up - complete with Stink-O-Vision - to completely shake you from that notion. #review Read more from @autistichorror.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/dead-lover-2...
unlabelledView post →A really fantastic and weird and special movie is out now, and it’s called DEAD LOVER! I had its star and writer director on Feeling Seen, and we talked about things like the artistic intersection of clown theater and BARTON FINK in her life as an artist. Check us out! m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DY...
unlabelledView post →Day 3 - Film 15 - Dead Lover Final screening of the live in person 2025 @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social !
unlabelledView post →EIFF Review 2025: Dead Lover – “The lo-fi sets and sheer sense of fun here were a delight.” Read it here bit.ly/4fYJHiM by @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social #DeadLover #film #indiefilm #EIFF #EIFF2025 #GraceGlowicki
unlabelledView post →Unmissable in its next few Edinburgh Film Festival showings: DEAD LOVER
unlabelledView post →A lonely gravedigger attempts to resurrect her lost love in Dead Lover eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/dead-... #KVIFF59 #EdFilmFest #EIFF25 #FilmSky🎬
unlabelledView post →2025 Milwaukee Film Festival ranked thus far, roughly: 1. SLICE OF LIFE: THE AMERICAN DREAM. IN FORMER PIZZA HUTS. 2. HARVEST 3. DEAD LOVER 4. THE UGLY STEPSISTER 5. THE SHROUDS 6. CLOUD Highly recommend hitting the final SLICE OF LIFE screening this afternoon if you can. Very charming!
unlabelledView post →'Dead Lover' Review: This Surreal, Sordid, and Smelly Romance Is an Acquired But Fun Taste of Frankenstein | Sundance 2025 collider.com/dead-lover-r... it's the worst film i've seen at this year's festival by far
unlabelledView post →the ever-erudite Philippa Hawker reviews Pascal Bonitzer's MAIGRET AND THE DEAD LOVER in the ABR australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts-rev.... Out Thursday across Aus!
unlabelledView post →For tonight's Midnight Movie Madness -- haven't done it in a while because it's been too damn cold to stay up late -- I've been going into yearly catch-up mode with this horror flick. I present to you DEAD LOVER by Grace Glowicki.
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