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The Substance
18

Today – Thu 03 Oct

Demi Moore portrays a fading Hollywood star feuding with the manifestation of her younger self in this award-winning body-horror satire.

Horror • Dark • Gory

Desperate to secure her fading celebrity status, Elizabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) a Hollywood actress-turned fitness guru, undergoes a black-market medical procedure that promises 'self-actualisation', resulting in the spawning of Sue (Margaret Qualley), a bold and brash clone of her younger self. The pair are warned to respect their new symbotic relationship or risk the consequences. But as Sue starts soaking up more of the spotlight due to sleazy executive (Dennis Quaid) Sparkle is forced to take action.

Details

Duration

2hrs 21mins

Director

Coralie Fargeat

Distributor

MUBI

Featuring

Demi Moore • Margaret Qualley • Dennis Quaid

Year

2024

Country of origin

UK & Ireland • France • USA

Language

English

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Bloody violence/gore/torture

“With her second film, Coralie Fargeat... takes aim at ageism and sexism in the entertainment industry with a riotous, dreamlike horror-thriller that ends in a delirious symphony of blood, guts and otherwise undefinable viscera.”
Damon Wise, Deadline

“The effect is somewhere between The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Shining—gorgeous, yet terrifying—and heightened by the director’s tendency to shoot things in extreme, visceral close-ups, including the abundant, occasionally nauseating gore.”
Radhika Seth, Vogue