GLORIOUS (July 2022)

  

GLORIOUS

(July 2022)

“Piss stinking inebriated. All by my lonesome at this rest stop here in… wherever the hell this rest stop is.”

The “piss stinking inebriated” Wes (Ryan Kwanten, also one of the executive producers*) is actually in the comfort room of the Route 37 Rest Area.

And he isn’t alone. Not at all.

Though he will eventually come to wish he was (even if he is being kept company by J.K. Simmons… or Simmons’ voice, at any rate)…

“Will it hurt?”

“Very much.”

Based on a story by Todd Rigney (which can be found in his flash fiction collection Taste Level Zero), Glorious is directed with a steady and blackly humorous hand by Rebekah McKendry, from a screenplay credited to Joshua Hull and her husband, David Ian McKendry.

Save for a few brief exceptions, the film is an odd sort of horror two-hander, in that Kwanten is basically bouncing off Simmons’ voice, but hey, it’s J.K. Simmons, so wotta voice!

“I’m sorry, but you’re not going to able to leave until we’re done here.”

Glorious is an exquisitely grotesque paradox, an unsettling vision of cosmic horror, told from within the cramped confines of a filthy, rest stop comfort room…

So if that sounds like the sort of title that floats your horror boat, then check it out!

“F*ck it. Let’s do this.”

* Along with horror stalwart Barbara Crampton.

(Glorious key art courtesy of impawards.com.)