Coralie Fargeat tells IndieWire about the feelings of insecurity, of passing age 40, that led to her new film 'The Substance,' starring Demi Moore

The Substance, starring Demi Moore, is a bright and showy body horror film about aging and the hypersexualization of the female body. But it doesn’t go much further than illustrating at great length that there are nasty cultural attitudes toward older women.

The premise and plot of “The Substance” are simple: celebrated actress and fitness guru Elisabeth Sparkle ( Demi Moore, in a scenery-chewing performance) has a star on the Walk of Fame and a popular exercise show.

At last, Cannes embraces body-horror schlock in Coralie Fargeat's "The Substance," but the film is more metaphorical than meaningful. Review.

The body horror nightmare story is sensual, unhinged, grotesque, and will have you howling with laughter. Demi Moore has never been better.

She and costar Margaret Qualley also devoted time to perfecting sexualized gyrations their celebrity fitness characters would perform in front of leering cameras and a slimeball of a boss, played by Dennis Quaid,

The provocative new film “The Substance,” about an aging celebrity (Demi Moore) who takes an illicit drug to be young again, opened on September 20 following its May premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival,

The Substance’ is being distributed by MUBI, but does that mean the MUBI streaming service is where you’ll be able to watch it at home first? Demi Moore returns to the silver screen in the new body horror flick “The Substance.