ROMANCING THE DEAD
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.
Only Lovers Left Alive
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Director: Jim Jarmusch Run Time: 123 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 2014
Cool people never die.
Thirst
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Fri, Feb 6 @ 11:55 pm: Seating begins Friday at 11:55; movie starts after midnite
Director: Chan-wook Park Run Time: 133 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 2009 Language: Korean with English subtitles
Lusting after sinful pleasures
Dead Lover
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Director: Grace Glowicki Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
A tale about the limits one Gravedigger will go to hold onto love
Nekromantik
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Fri, Feb 13 @ 11:55 pm: Seating begins Friday at 11:55; movie starts after midnite
Director: Jörg Buttgereit Run Time: 71 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 1988 Language: German with English subtitles
The notorious necrophilic West German exploitation film.
Bride of Frankenstein
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Director: James Whale Run Time: 75 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1935
Warning: The Monster demands a Mate!
Near Dark
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Fri, Feb 20 @ 11:55 pm: Seating begins Friday at 11:55; movie starts after midniteSat, Feb 21 @ 11:55 pm: Seating begins Saturday at 11:55; movie starts after midnite
Director: Kathryn Bigelow Run Time: 95 min. Format: 35mm Rating: R Release Year: 1987
Pray for daylight
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
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Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Run Time: 104 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 1947
THE SPIRIT... so willing! THE FLESH... so weak! THE ROMANCE... so wonderful!
Return of the Living Dead III
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Director: Brian Yuzna Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 1993
Love never dies
Habit
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Fri, Feb 27 @ 11:55 pm: Seating begins Friday at 11:55; movie starts after midnite
Director: Larry Fessenden Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 1995
It can catch up to you
