Most monster movies have always served as mirrors for society’s deepest fears and flaws, but Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover flips that metaphor on its head, turning the genre into a biting critique of the societal systems that perpetuate those very monsters. In this wildly inventive tale, co-written by Glowicki and Ben Petrie, who also star in multiple roles, the “monsters” aren’t stitched together in the laboratory — they’re stitched into the fabric of cultural norms and expectations, looming in the shadows of every corner of The Gravedigger’s world.
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