Hold Your Nose: ‘Dead Lover’ Delievers Stink-O-Vision to UK Cinemas

Lightbulb Film Distribution has announced that festival hit Dead Lover will be wafting into select UK & Irish cinemas in Stink-O-Vision from March 20.

The film centers around a smelly gravedigger who craves love and, after she’s found it, refuses to let it go – even in death.

“A lonely gravedigger, who stinks of corpses, finally meets her dream man – but their romance is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, the gravedigger goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.”

In Dread’s Josh Korngut’s review out of Sundance 2025, he called Dead Lover, “[a crunchy, stylish, and radical shadow play] centered on the classical themes of love, death, and transformation.”

Following its World Premiere at Sundance, the film played at SXSW, Night Visions, TIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Soho Horror Festival.

Directed and co-written by Grace Glowicki, the film stars Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz and Lowen Morrow, each playing multiple parts.

Dead Lover is a deliciously dark horror-comedy, for fans of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Death Becomes Her, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Trailer above.