- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- September 7, 2024 (4 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
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.
Blunt object body horror The Substance is bloody, feminist catharsis in action Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley play flipsides of the same character, whose body and age become weaponized in The Substance.
'The Substance' will make your skin crawl. Why it's one of the best movies of the year Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley spare nothing in 'The Substance,' Coralie Fargeat's film about beauty obsession. A gory good time. With Dennis Quaid.
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...
Pretty hurts: Demi Moore returns to her horror-genre roots in ‘The Substance’ - The Boston Globe What is The Substance? It's a drug that will create a younger version of you from your own DNA. That new you will graphically fall out of your back, complete...
Mirror, mirror on the wall - Chicago Reader Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is a horrifically absurd exploration of Hollywood’s obsession with beauty.
Review: The Substance 20/05/2024 - CANNES 2024: Coralie Fargeat delivers a brutal, post-modernist and feminist version of the Faustian pact, bellowing upon the spirit of Cronenber...
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!
‘The Substance’ Review: An Excellent Demi Moore Helps Sustain Coralie Fargeat’s Stylish but Redundant Body Horror In her second feature, co-starring Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid, the French filmmaker examines society's ghoulish obsession with youth and beauty.
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
Cannes 2024: Kevin Costner’s epic sprawl, Julianne Moore’s return and Kermit’s green coat Cannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest film
The Substance: Demi Moore’s spectacularly disgusting body horror is a two-finger rebuke to the beauty industry This hugely entertaining spasm favours full-frontal attack on the targets of its incensed satire
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.
All the Films in Competition at Cannes, Ranked from Best to Worst The twenty-two films that premièred in the 2024 festival’s main program offered much to savor and revile.
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
Demi Moore’s nudity-packed horror film ‘The Substance’ is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen One question repeatedly popped into my mind during “The Substance,” an outrageous and beyond bizarre horror movie that had its North American premiere Th...
‘The Substance’ Review: An Indecent Disclosure Demi Moore stars in an absurdly gory tale of an aging actress who discovers a deadly cure for obscurity.
Substance, The The Substance is a batshit-crazy horror/comedy film thatoffers a modern take on The Picture of Dorian Gray while evisceratingHollywood’s obsession with you...
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’: Cannes Review Demi Moore plays an ageing actress who goes to extreme measures in Coralie Fargeat's bracing body horror
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.
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
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....
Demi Moore’s audacious body horror dives beneath the surface The Substance is a morbid satire on Hollywood, the beauty industry and the dream of eternal youth.
Demi Moore Stars in the Grossest Movie at Cannes “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.
Demi Moore’s ‘The Substance’ Is So Gross—and So Sexy The body horror nightmare story is sensual, unhinged, grotesque, and will have you howling with laughter. Demi Moore has never been better.
Cannes Review: Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is an Overstimulating, Impressive Thrill 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...
Review: Bloody Hollywood satire The Substance is the best kind of unhinged nightmare Starting as an all-too-literal satire of the reality of aging as a woman in a male-led industry, the film amps up into a delightfully silly genre exercise th...
Demi Moore’s grotesque movie you never need to watch twice Once is more than enough. The Substance might be a career-best from Demi Moore but it doesn’t bear repeat viewings.
'The Substance' Review: Demi Moore And Margaret Qualley Switch In A Visionary Twist On 'Death Becomes Her' [Cannes] Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley are fantastic in original and bold horror film 'The Substance' which debuted at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Festival: A Donald Trump origin story and Cronenberg’s most personal work make our critic’s top 10 Films starring Emma Stone, Jeremy Strong, Cate Blanchett and Nicolas Cage and all make Peter Howell’s list.
‘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.
A Fearless Demi Moore Faces the Horrors of Aging—or Not—in ‘The Substance’ 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.
‘The Substance’ Review: Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in a Visionary Feminist Body-Horror Film That Takes Cosmetic Enhancement to Extremes Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley take cosmetic enhancement to extremes in a grippingly grotesque fusion of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Showgirls."
Review: ‘The Substance’ is like a drug – disgusting to watch, hypnotizing enough to keep you wanting more A bone-chilling piece of cinema.
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