A series devoted to love stories that refuse to stay buried, ROMANCING THE DEAD spans decades, genres and tones—from swooning melodrama to punk horror to gothic art film. These films imagine intimacy between humans and spirits, vampires, reanimated bodies and beings suspended somewhere in between.

In GHOST, love lingers after death, desperate and tender; RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III turns devotion into body horror, asking how far love can stretch when flesh itself is failing; BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN reframes the monster as a tragic romantic, yearning not just for life, but for companionship; ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE offers an immortal love story worn smooth by centuries, sustained by art, memory, and blood; and NEKROMANTIK confronts romance stripped of metaphor altogether, pushing the idea of love beyond taboo and into the literal embrace of the corpse.

In anticipation of the upcoming release of Grace Glowicki’s DEAD LOVER, which you can catch special previews of with the bonus of “Stink-o-Vision” scratch and sniff cards, ROMANCING THE DEAD traces a lineage of undead desire—stories where passion survives decay, where longing outlives the body, and where love is powerful enough to cross the ultimate divide.

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