Dead Lover (in Stink-O-Vision!)

Special Screenings

OT: Nonstop mit Aufpreis von 5€ gültig
Grace Glowicki | CA 2025 | 84 min | OV
Mit: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow
Kinostart 31.5.2026

Presented in Stink-o-Vision! Scratch-and-sniff cards will be provided (included in ticketprice) — and be warned, the smells are pungent.
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A wily gravedigger (Grace Glowicki) falls for the one man who is attracted to her fetid funk (Ben Petrie), but when fate doth conspire, she takes drastic measures to preserve their love in this camp phantasmagoria.

Writer-director Grace Glowicki stars as a wily gravedigger whose stench has left her bereft of amorous suitors. That is, until a horny dandy (co-writer Ben Petrie) with a penchant for her fetid funk enters this vibrantly chiaroscuro picture. The two consummate their love, but when a misbegotten voyage reduces the gravedigger’s lover to a mere severed finger, she feverishly turns to unnatural sciences to concoct a means of literally resurrecting the relationship. And if you know your Mary Shelley, you know that such Promethean malpractice can only go so right, before going so very wrong.

Dead Lover (2026) Trailer | Horror | Stink-O-Vision

From Sundance to Rotterdam, Glowicki’s wonderfully wackadoo Dead Lover has enjoyed a robust film festival run as one of the year’s most quintessential midnight movie experiences. Concocted from a delightfully campy witches’ brew of influences, from British pantomime to German Expressionism, this madcap gothic comedy wears its bleeding, beating heart on the pointy end of its proverbial shovel as it volleys a cavalcade of impish slapstick and DayGlo splatter upon a romantic parable of love conquering over petty inconveniences like body odour, impotency, and rigor mortis.

Dead Lover is vividly photographed on 16mm by Rhayne Vermette within Becca Brooks Morrin’s handcrafted theatrical sets. These are endearingly enlivened by a small but dexterous cast of a mere four players (including Leah Doz and Lowen Morrow) juggling a dozen roles, making Dead Lover one of the great Canadian phantasmagorias following Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century. This is a magnificent monument to the brilliant ingenuity of Glowicki and Petrie’s continued partnership… ’til death (and beyond) do they part.


Dead Lover (in Stink-O-Vision!)

Special Screenings

OT: Nonstop mit Aufpreis von 5€ gültig
Grace Glowicki | CA 2025 | 84 min | OV
Mit: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow

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