Margaret Qualley The Substance (2024)

In Coralie Fargeat's new feminist horror film The Substance, dangerous popular elegance standards are the genuine monsters. They (female objectification, the fingertip of "the old," the expansion of a sector built on body system modification) nourish a monster of a pattern that leads Demi Moore's fading TV individual character Elisabeth Shimmer to seek out a bootleg market treatment phoned The Substance that guarantees to produce her more beautiful. As well as in accomplishing this, she goes through a creature-feature-like transformation herself.

The Substance is a repulsive process-- one entailing syringes, fluids, as well as Elisabeth's vertebrae opening up to childbirth a younger double participated in by (blog post) Margaret Qualley. Elisabeth as well as her version, referred to as Sue, may not be aware simultaneously, so they each reside for a full week before switching over spots, with Sue detracting fluid coming from an open gap in Elisbeth's spine to endure herself. When Sue misuses The Substance, Elisabeth starts to age-- (blog post) starting along with one nightmarish, decrepit finger prior to dispersing into creaky, almost worthless limbs; as well as when Elisabeth resist through binge-eating, Sue malfunctions a lot to ensure she can draw hen airfoils away from her navel.

In doing so, the film indicate the fastidiously hideous lengths some will certainly visit be actually worshiped as perfect. It's performed to a spine-tingling, life-like level that creates a physical body terror film for the ages.