Demi Moore plays an ageing actress who goes to extreme measures in Coralie Fargeat’s bracing body horror

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This magnificent shocker heralds the squelchy, sick-making birth of a new horror maestro.

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley star in an immensely, unstoppably, ecstatically demented fairy tale about female self-hatred.

Feminist body horror The Substance is packed with ideas, blood-curdling FX, and a full-on Demi Moore.

Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid star in 'The Substance,' Coralie Fargeat's body horror about society's obsession with youth and beauty.

Coralie Fargeat made a splash with her debut Revenge. But she was only standing in a puddle, endearing niche corners of the global cinephile community to her cinematic bloodlust for sexually violent men and gore-horror filmmaking. With her second, The Substance, she’s fully submerged in the ocean and making waves. Meet Elisabeth Sparkle, a Demi

A sick, twisted, and squirm-inducing parable.

Coralie Fargeat's satirical body horror The Substance, which stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, will have audiences "gasping, wincing, and laughing in disbelief".

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley star in a body-horror extravaganza that's become the breakout hit of Cannes.

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley take cosmetic enhancement to extremes in a grippingly grotesque fusion of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Showgirls."

As Coralie Fargeat also illustrated in the equally unhinged 'Revenge,' the thin line between critique and hypocrisy is her natural habitat.

Moore goes for broke in this mean and clever film about a former movie star who finds a way to turn back the clock, for a price.

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“The Substance” got one of the biggest ovations at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. You also might need to take a barf bag with you when you see it.