Screening times:
Sunday, June 21, 7:45 PM
Friday, June 26, 9:00 PM

Grace Glowicki | Canada | 2026 | 84m

A lonely gravedigger (played by director Grace Glowiki) who reeks of death is unlucky in love until she meets a poet named Lover at the funeral of his sister. He can’t get enough of her enchanting odor but their passionate romance ends in tragedy; he drowns at sea and only his severed finger remains. Maybe true love can’t die if science intervenes! Experiments ensue, but if you’re going to play Frankenstein, you need to be prepared for unintended consequences….

Glowiki has cited Monty Python, Mel Brooks, Kenneth Anger and community theatre as influences on the film (written with her partner, Ben Petrie, who also plays the titular Lover) Made on a dirt-cheap budget with the cast playing multiple roles and featuring practical effects that utilize dollar store lights and kiddie pools, this demented and horny horror comedy was an audience hit at Sundance, TIFF and Halifax’s own beloved Hellifax Horror Fest.

“By asking the actors to play both male and female characters, the film playfully pokes fun at gender and sexual norms. Desire is foremost on these characters’ minds. Everyone wants to sleep with someone, even if they have to re-create them from a severed finger.”- Murtada Elfadl, Variety

“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.” - Katie Rife, RogerEbert.com

$12.00 ($11.40 at the door if available)