Dead Lover (2025)
Genre: Comedy / Horror
Duration: 82 minuten
Country:
Canada
Directed by: Grace Glowicki
Stars: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie and Leah Doz
IMDb score:
5,8 (459)
Releasedate: 24 January 2025
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Dead Lover plot
A lonely gravedigger meets her prince charming one day, but their romance comes to an abrupt end when he drowns at sea. Heartbroken, she goes to extremes to bring him back to life through science. This results in an unlikely love story.
Reviews & comments
Sepiroth
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- 136 messages
- 118 votes
Turned it off after half an hour. It feels like you're watching a theater performance in a retro style. Deadly boring for me.
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Collins
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- 7485 messages
- 4453 votes
“There is something at work in my soul that I do not understand.” With this quote from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus, the film opens ambitiously. It is immediately clear where director and writer Grace Glowicki drew her inspiration from.
Biting off more than they can chew, as it turns out. The protagonist (played by the director himself) manages to bring no more than one finger to life. A lame joke that is endlessly elaborated upon, and a joke that is also characteristic of the lame humor in this horror comedy. The humor is crude and occupies a corresponding place in the loud, obnoxious script. A script that gets lost in the search for and presentation of all kinds of absurdities and otherwise lacks any anchor whatsoever.
Overdone acting and unfunny humor. The fact that Glodowicki and her co-screenwriter Ben Petrie fill the lead roles themselves as untalented actors likely has more to do with a low budget than with dedication. Their exaggerated acting fits well into this annoying and loud horror homage, which derives its humor from body odor, coprophagia, and the relationship between lust and a corpse (or actually, a finger). That’s a laugh, man! I liked the jokes about bromidrophilia (getting aroused by rotting smells) best. Tears ran down my cheeks. However, the blatant overacting and the constant repetition of the jokes make the comedic aspect increasingly difficult to digest. The humor annoyed me. The film annoyed me.
Not everything is bad and tedious. The film does a good job with Victorian costuming, a few nice dialogues, and a playful vintage look. The references to genre classics from literature and film suggest admiration. Admiration that occasionally yields an uplifting moment. For me, these elements were insufficient reason to give the film as a whole the same expression of admiration. Afterwards, the term that prevailed was: Low-budget junk.
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