Panic Fest 2025: Dead Lover is the latest Grace Glowicki body-horror bash

Dead Lover — Grace Glowicki [Overlook '25 Review]

Writer-director-actress Grace Glowicki hasn’t yet ascended to the same level of indie prestige as Kate Lyn Sheil, Deragh Campbell, or (now mainstream power player) Greta Gerwig, but if there’s any justice in this world, she soon will. After co-starring in a number of low-budget, resolutely small-scale films, she’s now released her second directorial effort. Her debut, 2019’s Tito, was a disturbingly odd bit of provocation, a sorta-cringe comedy …

Panic Fest 2025: Dead Lover is the latest Grace Glowicki body-horror bash

The Panic Fest horror/genre film festival is currently running in KC for its 2025 season at Screenland Armour. These film reviews are from indie and studio horror/comedy/sci-fi features premiering right now in the Northland, or hitting major theaters/VOD soon. Catch up with all our coverage here and there’s still time to get tickets for individual screenings at the Panic Fest 2025 website. If I tell you the new film Dead Lover is essentially Gar…