Academy Award winner The Substance will change your life on HBO Max beginning October 10.
The satirical body horror movie stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid.
Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime, is suddenly fired from her fitness TV show. She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: The Substance. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn – temporarily – as the gorgeous, 20-somthing Sue.
Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) writes and directs.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Fargeat helms with assured confidence, delivering a tactile visual feast for the senses. Considering just how insane the horror gets, complete with a protracted finale that more than earns the robust runtime, well, here’s to hoping it doesn’t take Fargeat quite so long to release her next horror manifesto. The Substance is a campy body horror revelation.”
The Substance ranked highly on Bloody Disgusting’s Best Horror Movies of 2024, Best Horror Movie Kills of 2024, and Best Horror Movie Performances of 2024.
