The Substance (2024)

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Audience Score
73
Review Score
85
The Substance
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

The Substance Review

‘The Substance’ Takes Body Horror to a Whole New Level and Meaning. Demi Moore gives the performance of her career in ‘The Substance,’ a gruesome horror epic that wickedly skewers our standards of female youth and beauty. Opening in theaters September 20 is ‘The Substance,’ directed by Coralie Fargeat and starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid.

Coralie Fargeat’s 2017 feature debut, 'Revenge,' was supposed to be a feminist spin on the well-worn rape-revenge horror tropes so common in genre fare – and handled with varying quality -- from 'I Spit on Your Grave' to 'The Nightingale.' But 'Revenge' didn’t so much subvert those tropes as rehash them once again, as if shifting to a female gaze could somehow absolve the film of the film’s still exploitational imagery.

The Substance Showtimes on October 3rd, 2024

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:September 20th, 2024 - Buy Tickets
On Digital & Streaming:October 29th, 2024
Movie Budget:$17,500,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$10,492,678 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Erik Baiers, Alexandra Loewy, Nicolas Royer
Production Companies:Working Title Films, Blacksmith