2024 · 140 min · Horror, Sci-Fi, Drama
The Substance is Coralie Fargeat's audacious, boundary-obliterating body horror film in which a fading celebrity (Demi Moore) injects a black-market substance that creates a younger, 'better' version of herself (Margaret Qualley). Winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Screenplay at Cannes, the film is a savage satire of Hollywood's obsession with youth, beauty, and female self-destruction, rendered with gleeful extremity.
The Substance is available on MUBI and for digital rental/purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV.
The Substance won the Palme d'Or for Best Screenplay at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama. The film was also nominated for multiple Academy Awards.
Yes. The Substance is extremely graphic with explicit body horror, gore, and viscerally disturbing imagery. It is not for the faint of heart. Director Coralie Fargeat uses extreme visual excess as part of the film's satirical message.
A fading Hollywood star uses a black-market drug that creates a 'better' version of herself. The two versions — the older original and the younger new one — must share time in a single body, one week each. The film escalates darkly from there.
Demi Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, the fading celebrity. Margaret Qualley plays Sue, her younger self. Dennis Quaid plays the vulgar TV producer Harvey.
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