The limited number of cast members and restricted location heightens the tension because the viewer is as trapped as the protagonist. It’s an arresting odd-couple character study, bleak yet wrapped up with an ending worthy of “Tales of the Crypt.”

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 9, 2024

Director Rebekah McKendry plumbs the depth of Lovecraft’s fundamental philosophy in “Glorious,” a grungy, gross, intoxicatingly transgressive locked-room nightmare.

| Oct 26, 2023

Director Rebekah McKendry and her team understand the elasticity of the premise. Utilize it too poorly, and it can end up being forgettable. Stretch it too much, and it can end up being boring. But they hit the sweet spot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2023

Thanks to strong performances and mostly tight writing, it’s a tense little chamber film, with deities and grand ideas, but without pants.

| Original Score: 7.0/10 | Apr 19, 2023

No matter what someone thinks of the premise or how the film tries to turn its narrative, Glorious is anything but dull and deserves some cosmic attention.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 30, 2022

'Glorious' director Rebekah McKendry loves horror and has a gift for absurdist comedy, and those two impulses keep this film spry and spiky, like the many eldritch tentacles that keep this ghoulish engine turning.

| Oct 28, 2022

It never gets as fun as it promises to be. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 17, 2022

Glorious is more Lovecraft than most Lovecraft adaptations.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Sep 27, 2022

There's a humorous moment when Ghat's pitch for humanity's salvation sounds like the logical cosmological endgame of every time some dude used the doomsday potential of the Cuban Missile Crisis/Cold War/9-11 to get laid.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2022

Director and horror obsessive Rebekah McKendry pays both homage and fromage to H.P. Lovecraft, David Cronenberg and Stanley Kubrick in an enjoyably loopy movie that has a sense of humour and visual style.

| Sep 8, 2022

As gruesomely hysterical as much of Glorious may be, the foundation of toxic masculinity it’s built upon is anything but silly, McKendry giving it the brutally grisly evisceration it deserves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2022

If it doesn’t necessarily all hang together in the end, Glorious is a reasonably diverting, and satisfyingly bloody, enterprise that bodes well for McKendry’s future career above all else.

| Sep 1, 2022

It’s a bloody, neon-tinged nightmare that becomes one man’s reality. In all of its disturbing glory, it shouldn’t be missed. Kwanten and Simmons are perfect.

| Aug 28, 2022

If you don’t mind a movie teasing you for a good hour before getting to the good stuff, Glorious will prove to be a fun movie that has much more on its mind than you would’ve thought.

| Aug 28, 2022

Glorious is too reminiscent of things that have come before and audiences will surely see it as a movie made while killing time until the next project.

| Aug 27, 2022

Despite some decent horror sequences, the script itself doesn't have much material to sustain an eighty minute film.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Aug 26, 2022

It’s an arresting odd-couple character study, bleak yet wrapped up with an ending worthy of Tales of the Crypt.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2022

The ebb-and-flow of aggravated captive versus cloying eldritch mind-games never loses its thrill and relishes in the absurdity of its premise in a way that welcomes the audience to do the same.

| Aug 25, 2022

Glorious is one of those films that sounds nuts and is, but also is a film that is a must-see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2022

It's entertainingly nasty, but never becomes more than that.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022