SHUDDER NABS OFFICIAL FANTASIA FESTIVAL SELECTION, ‘GLORIOUS’

AMC Network’s premium horror streaming service, Shudder, has acquired the rights to director Rebekah McKendry’s GLORIOUS, starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood, Kindred) and Oscar-winner, J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Being the Ricardos).

This film is an official selection of the Fantasia International Film Festival, and will be available exclusively on Shudder on Thursday, August 18 in the US, Canada, The UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

In the film, Kwanten plays a young man 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 and more terrible than he could have imagined.

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Said Craig Engler, general manager of Shudder, “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.”

“For years, I had been searching for a project that would let me show my preferred artistic style - that would let me be absurdist, sardonic, transgressive, and weird. And Glorious gets really f’n weird.” added director Rebekah McKendry. “As a diehard horror fan, I’m thrilled Glorious has found a home at Shudder, and I know Shudder fans will find something unique, wild, and thought-provoking lurking inside our rural rest stop bathroom.”

This film is written by Todd Rigney, Joshua Hull and David Ian McKendry. AMP International’s Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh serve as producers along with Joe Wicker and Morgan Peter Brown from Fallback Plan Productions, Jason Scott Goldberg and Christian Armogida.

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