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Women Make Up One-Third of the Best Director Nominees at the 2025 Golden Globes

Congratulations are in order for Coralie Fargeat and Payal Kapadia!

Marie Claire

Latinos shine at the Golden Globes 2025: All the nominees

It was a good day for Latino actors at the Golden Globe's nominations

Latin Times

The Substance: how Pierre-Olivier Persin transformed Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley with prosthetic make-up design

The Substance, directed by Coralie Fargeat and starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, is now available to stream on Mubi. Wallpaper* speaks with Pierre-Olivier Persin, the special make-up effects designer, about his work on the film

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Mubi Just Quietly Added the Most Shocking Sci-Fi Thriller of the Year

Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror masterpiece is finally streaming.

Inverse

The Guardian view on female-led horror: time for a new formula

Editorial: Bloodied women’s bodies are once more to the fore in a seasonal crop of hagsploitation films

The Guardian - UK

10 movies that prove 2024 has been a brilliant year for horror

From the sadistic brutality of Art The Clown in Terrifier 3 to the stomach-turning dysmorphia of The Substance, 2024 has been a great year for all things horror

Metal Hammer

Streaming: The Substance and the best body horror for Halloween

Coralie Fargeat’s body horror satire on ageing is a welcome female take on a genre that preys on our deepest physical fears

The Guardian - UK

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The Substance is gory – but the real body horror is that 70% of women dislike the size of their breasts

Demi Moore’s gory satire The Substance made me think about self-image, bodily autonomy – and our worrying obsession with cosmetic surgery, writes Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

The divisive body horror about ageing has won plaudits for star Demi Moore yet some remain unconvinced of its depth

The Guardian - US

What makes "The Substance" so terrifying

My first body horror film left me emotionally shaken, but not for the reasons you might think

Salon

Does The Substance’s Take On Our Youth Obsession Hold Up? We Ask 3 Women What Ageing’s Really Like

It’s the film no-one can stop talking about. So how does it actually feel to age in a world where Botox is as readily available as a haircut?

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There is no future for ageing women: how The Substance uses body-horror in a feminist critique

In The Substance, the career of former actor Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is diminished to daytime aerobics instructor on a television network. On her 50th birthday, she is made redundant by a network executive, Harvey (Dennis Quaid), who tells her “renewal is inevitable”.

The Conversation

The Bloodiest, Most Deranged Sci-Fi Movie Ending of the Year, Explained

'The Substance' director Coralie Fargeat breaks down the wildest and goriest movie ending you'll see this year.

Inverse

We’re in a golden age for body horror films – as Demi Moore’s The Substance proves

In the 1980s, film scholar Barbara Creed coined the term the “monstrous-feminine”. It refers to the way that female monsters are typically portrayed as threatening and disgusting for reasons connected to their bodies and their sexuality. New film The Substance takes a leaf out of Creed’s book by proposing a…

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Marie Claire

How 'The Substance' Uses Practical Effects and Splashy Makeup to Craft a Body Horror Film That Tears Down Beauty Standards

The makeup and effects artists open up about the behind-the-scenes process on Coralie Fargeat's new movie.

The Guardian - UK

The Substance review – Demi Moore is fearless in visceral feminist body horror

The star plays a middle-aged TV host who signs up for a drug to generate a replicant of her younger self in Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked satire

Inverse

The Bloodiest Sci-Fi Thriller of the Year Reclaims a Controversial Genre

How the writer and director of 'The Substance' teamed up with Demi Moore to make a body-horror masterpiece.

Salon

"The Substance" and beauty's dark side

Despite a chaotic final act, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley shine in this darkly humorous body horror film

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The Substance: Demi Moore is ferocious in gloriously gory satire on Hollywood’s female ageism

Fans of body horror will not want to miss director Coralie Fargeat’s latest offering, The Substance, which bagged Best Screenplay for the Frenchwoman at Cannes this year, and features an astounding comeback performance from Demi Moore.

Total Film

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley’s new body horror is a fleshy commentary on societal pressures – and the most unique experience you’ll ever have in a theater

Big Screen Spotlight | The Substance is a surprisingly healing gorefest

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How to watch The Substance

One of the best-reviewed movies of the year, The Substance is now playing. But where can you watch it? Here's what you need to know.

Evening Standard

The Substance review: Demi Moore goes full Cronenberg in 2024's best – and goriest – film so far

This body horror instant classic is a pulsing, pumping blitzkrieg of pure entertainment

The Independent UK

The Substance review: Demi Moore is sensational, but this body-horror yarn loses its way

Coralie Fargeat reimagines the historical misogynist ‘hagsploitation’ genre to powerful effect – at least until her film’s disgusting ending

The Independent UK

Demi Moore on her graphic new film: ‘It’s not a glamour role’

For her Oscar-tipped role in Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body-horror thriller ‘The Substance’, the actor tackles stardom, ageing and full-frontal nudity. Adam White talks to her, along with Fargeat and her co-star Margaret Qualley

The Guardian - UK

‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet

After a lifetime of scrutiny, the actor has returned for a ‘grotesque’ feminist body horror about recapturing lost youth. She talks about no longer ‘chasing perfection’, living alone, and feeling truly free at 61

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