Coralie Fargeat’s twisted and unforgettable body-horror thriller, The Substance, returns to theaters this Friday, January 17, 2025.
Over the weekend, my spouse and I watched Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be the identical. Fargeat’s unnerving body-horror thriller goes to the acute, and I’m not ashamed to confess that I hid behind a pile of pillows for 40% of the movie. What? Fingernail and tooth “stuff” is my horror film kryptonite, and The Substance offers audiences no quarter with its method to gross-out scenes and unforgiving self-reflection. Fortunately, I watched the film within the consolation of my residence, however now these courageous sufficient to observe The Substance in public can accomplish that on the cinema when the movie returns to US theaters on January 17, 2025.
In The Substance, a fading celeb referred to as Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that quickly creates a youthful, higher model of herself. When Elisabeth’s different self, Sue (Margaret Qualley), disobeys the foundations of the transformation, the give-and-take of the results of the drug start wreaking havoc on Elisabeth’s physique, the battle to take care of dominance between the 2 goes uncontrolled.
Right here’s the official synopsis for The Substance:
“It generates another you. A new, younger, more beautiful, more perfect you. And there’s only one rule: You share time. One week for you. One week for the new you. Seven days each. A perfect balance. Easy. Right? If you respect the balance… what could possibly go wrong?”
The Substance is an interesting, unconventional, and unapologetic downward spiral of self-image, paranoia, and physique dysmorphia. As I’d mentioned, I spent a few of the movie hiding from my display. Fargeat’s film makes points of David Cronenberg’s work really feel like baby’s play, giving the thriller style a brand new queen as Fargeat guarantees to make daring, shocking, and unique movies.
Fargeat says there is not going to be a sequel to The Substance. Talking with Selection, she addressed her subsequent steps as a filmmaker, saying, “For now I’m not discussing anything. I’m just enjoying the moment and taking some time as I really want to write my next project. It’s slowly starting to be put in motion in the back of my brain and when things calm down I’ll take it from there.” That subsequent venture is “going to be totally different but with a lot of similarities (to The Substance). I love to make bold and surprising films with things that you don’t expect, so definitely that’s what I want to do. And I love the freedom that I gave myself for this film and that’s certainly something I want to keep doing. That was the greatest thing for me on The Substance.”
The Substance returns to US theaters on January 17, 2025.
