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Dead Lover



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2025
Runtime: 1h 24m
Country: Canada, USA
Language: English
Genre Tags: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Plot Summary: 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 experiments.

Poster - Title Card


phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Maybe not really a horror movie, though it's Frankenstein-y, and certainly grotesque. I'll allow it. Has a very "Let's put on a show!" theater vibe. Filmed in a black box with garish lighting. Stars only 4 actors playing 18 characters. Visually clever and creative. They milked every penny from their limited budget and made it a flex instead of a detriment. It's a hilarious, cartoonish, gender-bending double-Frankenstein tale featuring a stinky gravedigger and the reanimated finger of her dead lover. A tale of true love!


Outside Reviews:

Katie Rife
3 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

It's like "The Mighty Boosh" staged a performance of "The Bride of Frankenstein," with an interactive element—select theatrical screenings are enhanced with potent "Stink-O-Vision"—and an earnest, open heart. Viewers will have to let their guards down to engage with this film, both comedically and on a deeper level. One can be seen as a defense against the other, and indeed, the utter silliness of the film's setting and performances does serve as a barrier to entry. Only the truest, most faithful, most committed lovers are invited into the film's inner sanctuary, where they will be initiated into the mystery of the most romantic words in the English language: Don't wash.