Lovecraft tend to be either dead serious and scary ( THE BANSHEE CHAPTER) or over-the-top looniness ( THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE and the adaptations by Stuart Gordon). It could be his troubled, starved, alcohol-blitzed brain playing tricks, or it could be real. Wes’s experience is increasingly hallucinogenic. Wes wants to leave Ghatanothoa won’t allow this. Ghatanothoa mostly remains polite, but becomes quite insistent that Wes talk with him.
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Either way, we’ll soon deduce that we’re in the midst of the Cthulhu Mythos, although this is not stated directly. We’ll pause a moment in case the reader either recognizes the name or wants to Google it. He introduces himself as Ghatanothoa (Simmons). The voice’s owner says he’s been stuck here for a long time and is very lonely. Wes finds out that the other stall, its door closed, is occupied. The wall also has a hole in it of the type sometimes called “glory.” Hence, GLORIOUS. The stall he uses has quite a mural on one wall. Wes lunges into the men’s room so that he can be sick in one of the two toilets. Wes wakes up the next morning to find that he’s also evidently burned up his pants – don’t worry, he’s wearing boxers – and his wallet. Wes winds up getting blind drunk and burning a bunch of photos in the outdoor fire pit.
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He pulls over to the nearest rest stop, a quiet little cement building surrounded by grass. We meet Wes (Kwanten) in what turns out to be the midst of a bad dream, having fallen asleep at the wheel. Simmons, GLORIOUS turns out to be, if not exactly its title, a genuinely good movie. To the great credit of director Rebekah McKendry, screenwriters Joshua Hull and David Ian McKendry, working from a story by Todd Rigney, and lead actors Ryan Kwanten and J.K. After all, the fate of the universe hinges on action largely set in the men’s room of a rest stop. Writers: Joshua Hull and David Ian McKendry, story by Todd Rigneyįor a while, GLORIOUS seems like it may be priming us for a cosmic horror dirty joke. Simmons, Sylvia Grace Crim, André Lamar, Tordy Clark