We’re just one month away from the release of the supernatural horror film Glorious, which is set in a rest stop bathroom. Starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), the film will be available to watch on the Shudder streaming service in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand as of August 18th. With that date so close, a teaser trailer for Glorious has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above. It’s quite short, but it shows enough to confirm that the horror found in this rest stop bathroom has a touch of Lovecraft to it.
This trailer has also been released because Glorious is set to have its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal tomorrow.
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.
Glorious was 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 adoration of Lovecraft, gore, absurdist humor, philosophy, and the type of transgressive movies that leave you thinking ‘I can’t believe I just saw that’ It is a wild mix of horror, humor, and heady moralistic concepts about our own existential realizations of who we really are, forcing each of us to stare into our personal abyss. And sometimes, the abyss stares back… and maybe has a favor to ask.”
Shudder’s Craig Engler said,
With Glorious, Rebekah brings Lovecraftian horror to a place it’s never been seen before: a rest stop men’s room. She and her all-star cast have created an inventive and original cosmic horror that manages to be both darkly hilarious and profoundly personal.”
Are you looking forward to Glorious? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I will definitely be watching this one.