- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- September 7, 2024 (8 months ago)
- Language
- English
- Origin
- France · United Kingdom · United States
- Genres
- Body Horror
- Production companies
- Blacksmith · Working Title Films
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Rating
- R
The Substance

Where to watch (United States)
Cast
Demi MooreElisabeth
Margaret QualleySue
Dennis QuaidHarvey
Gore AbramsOliver
Edward Hamilton-ClarkFred
Hugo Diego GarciaDiego - Boyfriend
Olivier RaynalAlan
Christian EricksonMan at Diner
Tiffany HofstetterThe Stylist
Robin GreerMale Nurse
Tom MortonThe Doctor
Jiselle BurkhalterGirl
Axel BailleThe Photographer
Oscar LesageTroy
Matthew GéczyBob Haswell
Philip SchurerMr. Scream
Daniel KnightThe Casting Director
Namory BakayokoSilhouette
Bill BentleySuit
Lucie LaffinWoman from the Public
Gregory DefleurHappy Birthday Person
Vincent ColombeSuit
Yann Bean“The Substance” (voice)
Felix MacKenzieCronenberg
Crew
Producers
Levels
- Sex & Nudity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Violence
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Profanity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Algohol & Drugs
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Fright & Intensity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>
Reviews
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Review: Demi Moore brilliantly seizes the role of her lifetime in 'The Substance' "The Substance" is the role of a lifetime for Demi Moore, according to critic Peter Travers.
The Substance review: 'Magnificently tasteless' horror comedy is Demi Moore's 'best big-screen role in decades' Coralie Fargeat's satirical body horror The Substance, which stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, will have audiences "gasping, wincing, and laughing in di...
Mirror, mirror on the wall - Chicago Reader Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is a horrifically absurd exploration of Hollywood’s obsession with beauty.
You Are Not Ready for the Messy Madness of The Substance: Review The body-horror parable features Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley and more gore than you can believe.
‘The Substance’ Review: Demi Moore And Margaret Qualley Pair Up For The Year’s Smartest, Goriest Horror Breakout – Cannes Film Festival Coralie Fargeat's The Substance takes aim at ageism and sexism in the entertainment industry with a riotous, dreamlike horror-thriller.
The Substance review: the grossest movie of 2024 is also one of its best Demi Moore plays an aging actress who falls into a mutating nightmare in the superbly disgusting satire The Substance.
The Substance Demi Moore takes an experimental youth treatment in Coralie Fargeat's extreme body horror. Read the Empire review.
'The Substance' is a piercing indictment of society's attitude toward women's aging told via body horror With 'The Substance,' Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley tackle aging and beauty standards with unfettered violence. Read Entertainment Weekly's review.
The Substance review: "Demi Moore delivers arguably a career-best performance in outrageous horror" Our verdict is in!
Gross, grisly The Substance loses its way, but Demi Moore is sensational – review Coralie Fargeat reimagines the historical misogynist ‘hagsploitation’ genre to powerful effect – at least until her film’s disgusting ending
‘The Substance’ Review: Margaret Qualley Helps Demi Moore Feel Young Again in an Epic, Audacious, and Insanely Gross Body Horror Masterpiece Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley star in an immensely, unstoppably, ecstatically demented fairy tale about female self-hatred.
Demi Moore's bonkers body horror The Substance will cause a stir This is a glorious and brutally unsubtle take-down of anti-ageing culture
The Substance Review: Demi Moore’s Body Horror Flick Is Nuts! Review: The hype is real for The Substance, which has to be one of the most grotesque body horror movies since The Fly.
FilmWeek: ‘A Different Man,’ ‘The Substance,’ ‘Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law’ And More Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig, Tim Cogshell and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand plat...
The Substance ... something like David Cronenberg’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, from a distinctly feminine perspective.
Review: A Hollywood star wants more time, but 'The Substance' doesn't give her a reason Demi Moore is boldly exposed as an aging Oscar winner rejected by her producer in a hyperstylized satire that also stars Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.
Scary Movies for Spooky Season Also: The appalling betrayals of “The Apprentice,” a cabaret convention, a Bay Ridge dive bar, and more.
How “A Different Man” and “The Substance” Get Under the Skin In films starring Sebastian Stan and Demi Moore, the directors Aaron Schimberg and Coralie Fargeat satirize the self-annihilating pursuit of beauty.
'The Substance' review: bombastic body horror with plenty to say Demi Moore stars in a sickening satire of society’s youth obsession
The Substance movie review & film summary (2024) While it may feel like a cautionary tale for our times, the horrors at the heart of “The Substance” have been with us for many years, and the issues the ...
Movie Review: A Creepy, Kubrickian satire of Sexism, Beauty Standards and Ageism — “The Substance” As the sun rises over Hollywood today, there are creeps who look like Harvey Weinstein, D.J. Qualls and Steve Buscemi passing judgment on the appearance, sex...
'The Substance' Lets Demi Moore Rip Hollywood a New One Coralie Fargeat's broad, bloody satire flips the bird to showbiz's youth obsessions and beauty double standards — in the grossest way imaginable.
The Substance Review: A Bloody, Brilliant, Bonkers Body Horror Movie - SlashFilm Coralie Fargeat's funny, gruesome The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, is audacious and unforgettable. Here's our review.
Movie review: 'The Substance' elevates 'beauty horror' to unprecedented heights Our world does not often offer a safe space for female rage. But French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat has carved out a place to explore that emotion in her work....
The Substance review: Demi Moore is brilliant in the best film of 2024 This body horror instant classic is a pulsing, pumping blitzkrieg of pure entertainment
TIFF 2024 Review: The Substance A review of The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, screening at TIFF 2024 and in theatres on September 20, 2024.
‘The Substance’ Review: Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley Make Coralie Fargeat’s Sci-Fi Body Horror Double the Fun Cannes 2024: The festival’s most audacious horror film, The Substance, is sure to send more squeamish audiences running for the exits.
The Substance Viscerally Captures the Frustration of Being an Aging Woman—Until It Spins Out of Control Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley star in a body-horror extravaganza that's become the breakout hit of Cannes.
'The Substance' Review: Cathartically Fun, Extreme Feminist Body Horror Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley take cosmetic enhancement to extremes in a grippingly grotesque fusion of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Showgirls."
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