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This Disgustingly Fun Horror Romance Gives Frankenstein a Truly Twisted Upgrade [Exclusive]
They say there’s someone out there for everyone. That sentiment rings grossly and carnally true in Grace Glowicki’s sophomore feature-length production Dead Lover. Straight from the graveyard and onto your screen, today Collider is excited to exclusively debut the first look at the helmer and scribe’s newest project, which also sees her step into the starring role. Blending horror with comedy and using German expressionist cinema as its north star, the grotesque project follows a kooky beyond-the-grave love story and darkly depicts the lengths we’re all willing to go to in order to find and hold onto that special someone.
Known only as Gravedigger (Glowicki), the very first seconds of the trailer set the tone and mission of the main character behind Dead Lover. Stinking of the rot of the corpses that she buries, Gravedigger longs for someone to take her as their own. Eventually, her wishful thinking ends up paying off when a man known as Lover (Ben Petrie) shows her that there are other folks out there who are just actually into that deadly stink. Quickly becoming enamored with one another, the pair feels they’ve finally found their match, but soon, tragedy strikes and Lover is killed in a boating accident. With only the severed finger of her beau left, Gravedigger goes to grotesque lengths to hold onto the love that she’s unwilling to lose.
Dead Lover is far from the first time that Glowicki and Petrie have worked alongside one another, with the pair first joining forces for Petrie’s Sundance Film Festival entry, Her Friend Adam. In the time since then, the duo have starred in four feature films together, including Glowicki’s SXSW-debuting title, Tito. Most recently, ahead of their work in Glowicki’s new darkly comedic, neon-drenched, and brutal film, the two actors worked alongside folks like Jason Isaacs and Kate Dickie in Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s thriller, Honey Bunch.
Who Else Is Behind ‘Dead Lover’?
In addition to starring opposite one another, Petrie and Glowicki worked behind-the-scenes in multiple roles to bring Dead Lover to vibrant life. For starters, they co-penned the script and additionally served as producers alongside Yona Strauss. Filling out the lineup of executive producers are Rhianon Jones, Tristan Scott-Behrends, Matthew Miller, Lexi Tannenholtz and Olivia Niuewland. Allowing Dead Lover to jump off the screen, grab on and not let go is the title’s director of photography, Rhayne Vermette, who previously found success through her debut feature, Ste. Anne, which celebrated its premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival followed by additional screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.
Check out the exclusive first look at the trailer for Dead Lover above.
- Release Date
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January 24, 2025
- Runtime
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82 minutes
- Director
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Grace Glowicki
- Writers
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Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie
- Producers
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Ben Petrie, Yona Strauss, Tristan Scott-Behrends, Rhianon Jones
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Grace Glowicki
Uncredited
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