Part of Best Picture Marathon
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Directing, Actress in a Leading Role (Demi Moore), Writing (Original Screenplay), Makeup and Hairstyling
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Viewers beware. You’re in for one of the most over-the-top body horror films of the decade with all the requisite blood and guts in this explosive new film from Coralie Fargeat (REVENGE), starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid. Winner of Best Screenplay at 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
“While dissecting the world’s ridiculous beauty ideals, [Coralie] Fargeat directs her sensational feat with pungent audacity, fearless humor, and dysmorphic body horror… A delightfully bloody epic that is humorous, terrifying, and so superb that it’ll be hard to look away despite the need to squirm.” —Patrice Witherspoon, ScreenRant
“The humanity of [Demi] Moore’s performance, the greatest of her career, gives Fargeat’s boldest ideas an emotional backbeat. This is a blend of body horror film and feminist satire that’s more than a tribute reel to the usual masters of the genre.” —Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine
"An immensely, unstoppably, ecstatically demented fairy tale about female self-hatred, Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE will stop at nothing — and I mean nothing — to explode the ruthless beauty standards that society has inflicted upon women for thousands of years… For her part, [Demi] Moore has never really taken a risk of this nature before. Few modern actors of her pedigree ever have. And the places that risk takes her in the movie’s absolutely bonkers final act will have your jaw on the floor, if it’s even still attached to your body.” —David Ehrlich, IndieWire