MOViES FOR MANiACS and “Get Off the Internet Film Festival” are thrilled to present a “Stink-O-Vision” screening of DEAD LOVER at The Balboa Theater – 3630 Balboa St (@ 37th Avenue), complete with limited edition scratch and sniff cards. The “Get Off the Internet Film Festival” showcases Radical Cinema unavailable to stream online and can only be experienced in a theater.
“Get Off the Internet Film Festival” presents DEAD LOVER (“Stink-O-Vision” Screening)”
April 3, 2026
Dead Lover
7:30 pm
Directed by Grace Glowicki
Written by Grace Glowicki
Cinematography by Rhayne Vermette
Containing Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie
Writer-director-producer-star Grace Glowicki is hilariously unhinged as she inhabits a lonely gravedigger who, not only stinks of corpses, is desperate to find the man of her dreams. Playing four separate characters, Glowicki is somehow magically matched by her co-stars Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow, and Ben Petrie, who are each as equally bizarre as she.
Gorgeously shot on 16mm by Rhayne Vermette using both an Arri SR3 & a Bolex camera, this transgressive tour-de-force is a non-stop laugh-out-loud, absurdly lo-fi, horror camp-fest, inspired by Mary Shelley, German Expressionism, and seemingly, The Kuchar Brothers. What’s most impressive is how this homemade homage to avant-garde cinema manages to achieve its very own surreal uniqueness, and should be placed alongside the outsider films it is honoring. Throw in a brand-new soundtrack by legendary Toronto pop project U.S. Girls (aka Meghan Remy) and you’ve got one of the best films of the year.
Hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, 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.