Glorious: J.K. Simmons, Ryan Kwanten star in rest stop bathroom horror film

I’m not surprised there’s a horror movie in the works that is set in a rest stop bathroom and is called Glorious – taking its name, I assume, from the concept of rest stop bathroom gloryholes. We do live in a world where there’s a horror movie called Amityville Vibrator. I am surprised, however, that this rest stop bathroom horror movie happens to star Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash). And rather than being than being a down-to-earth story about gloryhole troubles, it’s actually a story of supernatural horror.

Directed by Rebekah McKendry (All the Creatures Were Stirring) from a script by Todd Rigney, Joshua Hull, and David Ian McKendry, Glorious is about

a young man (Kwanten) who is spiraling out of control after a bad breakup. His situation worsens after he finds himself locked inside a rest stop bathroom with a mysterious figure (Simmons) speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As he tries to escape, he realizes he is an unwilling player in a situation bigger than he could have imagined.

Details on the supernatural force at work in this rest stop were not revealed.

Deadline reports that filming on Glorious is already nearly complete. The movie is being produced by AMP’s Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh, Fallback Plan Productions’ Joe Wicker and Morgan Peter Brown, Jason Scott Goldberg, and Christian Armogida. This is a collaboration between Fallback Plan and Eyevox Entertainment. Eyevox’s Rick Moore from Eyevox serves as executive producer alongside AMP’s James Norrie and Nina Kolokouri, Barbara Crampton, Mark Cartier, Gaba Gavi, Kevin Kale, and Kwanten. Jessica Taylor is an associate producer.

Norrie promised that “Glorious is so deliciously bonkers that people are going to be talking about it for years.” The director added, “Glorious speaks to my love of cosmic horror, gore, absurdist humor, philosophy, and the type of transgressive movies that leave you thinking ‘I can’t believe I just saw that.'”

Hopefully it won’t be long before we have a chance to see it.