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.

The Substance is all about showing instead of telling, and while that ultimately proves to be exceptionally demanding for the film’s stars, both Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley are magnificent. Beyond the intense physicality for both actors – including bold nudity and metamorphosis – they are what set the stakes and attitude.

If you like a body-horror movie to retain a semblance of logic in its plot line, then The Substance – grotesque, gory and finally insubstantial – may not be for you.

The actress stars alongside Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid in Coralie Fargeat’s gleefully grotesque movie about an aging celebrity who takes an experimental drug that gives her a younger self.

With "The Substance," writer-director Coralie Fargeat summarily burns that door to the ground and kicks the ashes around with a gleeful laugh. The independent horror movie builds on themes from classic literature to TikTok influencers to take an unflinching and desperate look at the damage that hating one's body can do,

It's not long before Demi and her doppelganger are at each other's throats. Complications ensue when Sue is hired by Elisabeth's old boss (Quaid is scarily hilarious as Harvey) to star in a new workout show called "Pump It Up.

Coralie Fargeat’s sci-fi shocker follows the downward spiral of a 50-year-old movie star who resorts to drastic measures