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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Erik Piepenburg

New York Times

3d

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

4d

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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Vikram Murthi

IndieWire

5d

C+

Its prolonged, forced zaniness unfortunately taints everything it touches. With that said, there are definitely people who will take to this kind of film like a duck to water.

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Jared Mobarak

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2d

6/10

I’d be lying if I didn’t say my overall feeling was more appreciation than enjoyment. Its ingenuity, on-screen excitement, and comical depravity ensured that I was never at risk of stopping altogether, though.

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Gregory Nussen

Screen Rant

2d

8/10

At once wretched, beguiling in its vileness, hopelessly romantic, and fascinatingly disgusting, Dead Lover cements Glowicki as one of Canada's most exciting voices.

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Mark Dujsik

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3d

2/5

As a fully developed story and comedy ... its one note becomes repetitive quickly.

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BC

1d

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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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