Dead Lover review – go-for-broke grotesquerie promises fragrant filth in full Stink-O-Vision

Grace Glowicki’s microbudget Canadian horror follows a lovelorn gravedigger who salvages the corpse of her deceased sweetheart If memory serves, the last theatrical release to arrive with a scratch-and-sniff component was 2011’s Spy Kids 4, which invited its victims to huff the gastric emissions of a yapping robot dog voiced by Ricky Gervais. This microbudget Canadian horror curio offers more art than fart, although its Stink-O-Vision conceit is only one unusual element in what is an altogeth...

By Mike McCahill