Dead Lover

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Dead Lover

2025

1h 19m

Horror

Romance

Comedy

Sci-Fi

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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.

Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Dead Lover is pure DIY, playing like low-budget experimental theater with striking gel lighting and sharp contrasts, and minimal set design that lets its wacky characters shine.

Mar 28, 2025

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Murtada Elfadl

Variety

“Dead Lover” revels in its macabre inventions. Shot entirely on a soundstage, it uses practical effects and visual illusion to create its ghostly world. There’s ingenuity in all creative aspects, from makeup to production design to sound and lighting."

Feb 7, 2025

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

Glowicki’s film is a singular, strange concoction very much the unique product of its delightfully deranged creatrix

Feb 6, 2025

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Joshua Polanski

Rue Morgue Magazine

Even without the scratch-off cards that the audience can scratch and sniff during a film, the on-screen images are pungent on their own.

Sep 27, 2025

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Jonathan DeHaan

Nightmare on Film Street

Dead Lover is like a German Expressionist film with silly voices, color gels, and fart jokes. It's hilarious, it's bizarre, it's 100,000 watts of weird beamed directly into your skull from the mind of an artist that it completely unrestrained.

Rated: 95%

Sep 20, 2025

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Eddie Harrison

The List

Dead Lover uses deliberately retro visual stylings, aggressive strobe lighting and dollar-store puppetry to create a seedy love affair that’s willing to delve into body horror and outright necrophilia.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 21, 2025

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Ben Petrie

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Grace Glowicki
Producer: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Yona Strauss
Screenwriter: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie
Production Co: Featured Creatures
Genre: Horror, Romance, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 19m