Dead Lover

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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.

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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.

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Katie Rife

RogerEbert.com

4d

3/4

It’s an absurd film, but also a romantic and quietly radical one.

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Erik Piepenburg

New York Times

Mar 19

God bless Glowicki for pushing ahead as a genre leading lady who isn’t scared to tackle oddball characters in nutty films.

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Mike McCahill

Guardian

Mar 17

3/5

It is perhaps too much the acquired taste (and smell) to appeal to everyone, but it’s distinctive, never dull and -- much like its most noxious niffs -- difficult to shake.

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Simon Miraudo

Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1)

19h

4/5

Ew Canada.

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Alex Southey

That Shelf

20h

Dead Lover is a concoction so enchantingly, joyfully repulsive it is destined to become, at minimum, a cult classic.

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

2d

Whether one finds it audacious and hilarious, or too mannered or too something else to be any fun, this much is certain: there’s nothing else out there quite like it.

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6d

By far the strangest film us black box theater weirdos needed. However you end up feeling about it, it will surprise you in new ways every 20 seconds. Loved it

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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
Distributor: Cartuna / Dweck Productions
Production Co: Featured Creatures
Genre: Horror, Romance, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 20, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 19m