Check out this new teaser for Shudder-bound Lovecraftian horror Glorious, starring Ryan Kwanten and J.K. Simmons. This one is set to premiere at the in-progress Fantasia Film Festival in Canada and looks superb.
The film is said to mostly take place in a rest-stop bathroom with the two leads talking to one another from neighbouring stalls. Sounds simple, but there’s more at play here. Here’s the synopsis.
Spiraling out after a bad breakup, Wes (Ryan Kwanten) ends up at a remote rest stop miles away from civilization. His situation worsens after he finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure (J.K. Simmons) speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As Wes tries to escape, he finds himself an unwilling player in a situation bigger and more terrible than he could possibly imagine…
The film is directed by filmmaker, genre journalist, and celebrated podcast host Rebekah McKendry and comes to Shudder on 18th August.
“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,” says McKendry. “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.”
Here’s the teaser.
