DEAD LOVER (2025) in Stink-O-Vision!
April 10 : 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
“One of the grossest, most absurd love stories you’ll ever have the pleasure of seeing!” – Geek Vibes Nation
A hit on the festival circuit—including at Hysteria Fest, hosted here at Arkadin!—Grace Glowicki’s DEAD LOVER is an aromatic horror-comedy treat full of wit, weirdness, and delightful disgust. Glowicki herself stars as a lonely gravedigger, perpetually stinking of corpses, who 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 scientific experiments involving his severed finger, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love. A deliciously strange riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, DEAD LOVER is what we like to call “a very Arkadin kind of movie.”
WHAT IS STINK-O-VISION?
The DEAD LOVER Stink-O-Vision screenings turn cinema into a full-body experience. Each audience member receives a scratch-and-sniff card created by scent artists, unleashing a carefully choreographed bouquet of aromas—funky, foul, seductive, and downright unholy—that sync with key moments in the film. From grave-dirt rot to dandy cologne, ghost puke to BBQ stank, the smells guide viewers through a journey of fetid, funky love where romance and revulsion collide.
DEAD LOVER is screening twice: a standard showing on April 9 and a STINK-O-VISION showing on April 10. Choose your preferred screening at checkout.
WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING…
“It’s such a bizarre experience that you might wonder, ‘WTF is this?!’ (complementary) You’ll be so invested, you won’t care.” – B-Sides & Badlands
“As a piece of genre Midnight mayhem, Dead Lover delivers… For those drawn to the bent…they just might fall in love with Dead Lover for all of its foul, fecund, and farcical facets.” – Collider
“Dead Lover is like a German Expressionist film with silly voices, color gels, and fart jokes. It’s hilarious, it’s bizarre, it’s 100,000 watts of weird beamed directly into your skull from the mind of an artist that it completely unrestrained.” – Nightmare on Film Street
“A loony, earnestly delirious dark romantic film with a handmade quality.” – RogerEbert.com
“Grace Glowicki’s ‘Dead Lover’ is a scrappy and transgressive unearthing of the fine line between beauty and the grotesque. It’s the punk kid sibling to recent Gothic revivals like ‘Nosferatu’ and ‘Poor Things.'” – Dread Central
Why should Jessie Buckley have all the fun? We’re celebrating brides, monsters, mad doctors and more this month with our FEMALE FRANKENSTEINS series, featuring thrills, chills, dark laughs and twisted loves, all culminating with our screenings of the widely-acclaimed new horror-comedy DEAD LOVER!
Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.
Theater Policies
- All seats are first-come, first-served.
- The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.
- All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.
- Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter.
- If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in.
- Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.
- When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.
- All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.
- Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.