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Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

The divisive body horror about ageing has won plaudits for star Demi Moore yet some remain unconvinced of its depth

The Guardian - US

What makes "The Substance" so terrifying

My first body horror film left me emotionally shaken, but not for the reasons you might think

Salon

Does The Substance’s Take On Our Youth Obsession Hold Up? We Ask 3 Women What Ageing’s Really Like

It’s the film no-one can stop talking about. So how does it actually feel to age in a world where Botox is as readily available as a haircut?

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There is no future for ageing women: how The Substance uses body-horror in a feminist critique

In The Substance, the career of former actor Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is diminished to daytime aerobics instructor on a television network. On her 50th birthday, she is made redundant by a network executive, Harvey (Dennis Quaid), who tells her “renewal is inevitable”.

The Conversation

The Bloodiest, Most Deranged Sci-Fi Movie Ending of the Year, Explained

'The Substance' director Coralie Fargeat breaks down the wildest and goriest movie ending you'll see this year.

Inverse

We’re in a golden age for body horror films – as Demi Moore’s The Substance proves

In the 1980s, film scholar Barbara Creed coined the term the “monstrous-feminine”. It refers to the way that female monsters are typically portrayed as threatening and disgusting for reasons connected to their bodies and their sexuality. New film The Substance takes a leaf out of Creed’s book by proposing a…

The Conversation

How 'The Substance' Uses Practical Effects and Splashy Makeup to Craft a Body Horror Film That Tears Down Beauty Standards

The makeup and effects artists open up about the behind-the-scenes process on Coralie Fargeat's new movie.

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The Substance review – Demi Moore is fearless in visceral feminist body horror

The star plays a middle-aged TV host who signs up for a drug to generate a replicant of her younger self in Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked satire

The Guardian - UK

The Bloodiest Sci-Fi Thriller of the Year Reclaims a Controversial Genre

How the writer and director of 'The Substance' teamed up with Demi Moore to make a body-horror masterpiece.

Inverse

"The Substance" and beauty's dark side

Despite a chaotic final act, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley shine in this darkly humorous body horror film

Salon

The Substance: Demi Moore is ferocious in gloriously gory satire on Hollywood’s female ageism

Fans of body horror will not want to miss director Coralie Fargeat’s latest offering, The Substance, which bagged Best Screenplay for the Frenchwoman at Cannes this year, and features an astounding comeback performance from Demi Moore.

The Conversation

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley’s new body horror is a fleshy commentary on societal pressures – and the most unique experience you’ll ever have in a theater

Big Screen Spotlight | The Substance is a surprisingly healing gorefest

Total Film

How to watch The Substance

One of the best-reviewed movies of the year, The Substance is now playing. But where can you watch it? Here's what you need to know.

WhatToWatch

The Substance review: Demi Moore goes full Cronenberg in 2024's best – and goriest – film so far

This body horror instant classic is a pulsing, pumping blitzkrieg of pure entertainment

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The Independent UK

The Substance review: Demi Moore is sensational, but this body-horror yarn loses its way

Coralie Fargeat reimagines the historical misogynist ‘hagsploitation’ genre to powerful effect – at least until her film’s disgusting ending

The Independent UK

Demi Moore on her graphic new film: ‘It’s not a glamour role’

For her Oscar-tipped role in Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body-horror thriller ‘The Substance’, the actor tackles stardom, ageing and full-frontal nudity. Adam White talks to her, along with Fargeat and her co-star Margaret Qualley

The Guardian - UK

‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet

After a lifetime of scrutiny, the actor has returned for a ‘grotesque’ feminist body horror about recapturing lost youth. She talks about no longer ‘chasing perfection’, living alone, and feeling truly free at 61

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The Substance may be grotesque, but it is not body horror

The Substance, Coralie Fargeat's sophomore feature film, has already been granted the moniker body horror, due its visceral imagery and mutations of the body

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Total Film

The Total Film FrightFest Awards 2024: the big winners from this year's horror festival

And the winners are...

Total Film

New horror movie debuts first full-length trailer featuring blood, sweat, and tears – and it's already got a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

The Substance releases next month

Total Film

New body horror with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score unveils its twisted first trailer

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley star in Coralie Fargeat's The Substance

The Guardian - UK

Anora is a vivacious Cannes victor and a fitting end to a radically romantic festival

Sean Baker’s story of an erotic dancer who marries a Russian oligarch makes a terrific surprise Palme d’Or winner – though more reward for Mohammad Rasoulof might have felt better

The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2024 week two roundup – scuffles, screwballs and spellbinders

While there’s no out-and-out masterpiece this year, and at times more fun to be had watching the audience fighting, Sean Baker’s acid class comedy, Jacques Audiard’s drug-lord musical and India’s first Palme d’Or contender in decades are knockouts

Inverse

The Goriest Sci-Fi Movie of the Year is a Brutal Satire Without Much to Say

Coralie Fargeat's body-horror satire takes the genre to truly wild places, but at a cost. Read our review of 'The Substance' out of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

France 24

Escaped Iranian director wraps up wide-open race for Cannes Palme d’Or

The race for the Palme d’Or wound up with a bang on Friday with the screening of escaped Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, adding a geopolitically charged red-carpet appearance to a 77th Cannes Film Festival that has delivered several strong contenders for the top prize…

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