Dead Lover

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Dead Lover

2025

1h 19m

Horror

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.

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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Wendy Ide

Screen International

With its blend of lurid camp and twisted romanticism, its embrace of gleefully lo-fi special effects and a twangy electro-retro score, Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover, a singular spin on the Frankenstein story, sets its sights firmly on cult status.

Jan 31, 2025

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Rendy Jones

Rendy Reviews

Grace Glowicki's Dead Lover is a delightfully silly and erotic take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with a Monty Python edge. If you're a big fan of the macabre and the absurdist, this one's for you.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 13, 2025

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Jason Gorber

Collider

As a piece of genre Midnight mayhem, Dead Lover delivers. For hungry audiences at the likes of Montreal’s Fantasia or other genre fests around the world, there will be hoots and hollers from a hungry audience wanting every gloriously zany moment.

Rated: 7/10

Jan 31, 2025

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Brittany Patrice Witherspoon

Pop Culture Reviews

Say what you will about its execution, but conceptually, Dead Lover is as wild and creative as it gets.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 30, 2025

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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, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 19m