Here on , it’s always encouraged to let your freak flags fly, and Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover is flying it loud and proud. “The sickos are gonna love this,” Cob writes of the film, which follows a lonely, corpse-smelling gravedigger who meets her dream man before tragically losing him just as quickly. That’s okay though, she’s got a plan to make it all better, and it involves… erm… madcap science experiments to resurrect him from the dead. If that sounds familiar, Glowicki knows exactly what she’s pulling from. “Only one filmmaker made a delectably gory, disarmingly horny, Frankenstein riff in 2025 and it wasn’t Guillermo Del Toro,” Justin declares. Dead Lover is all about that midnight madness squirming and squealing, with the film having been presented in some theaters in scent-o-vision to really give you that corpse stank.
Sadly, our at-home premiere will require you to conjure up smells at your own discretion, but that’ll put you right in line with the textured, handmade feel of Glowicki’s work here, as she puts that blood and sweat into directing, writing, producing and starring as the film’s lead. “Forever in awe of Grace Glowicki,” gushes Mile End Kicks and Roommates filmmaker Chandler Levack, who also promises, “This movie is for the freaks, the weirdos, the Guy Maddin heads, the black box theatre troupes, the ladies who wanna get fingered by a disembodied finger, the perverts who like to scratch and sniff.”
