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The Substance

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The Substance is a 2024 satirical body horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Coralie Fargeat. It stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid, and follows a fading celebrity who uses a black market drug that temporarily creates a much younger version of herself with unexpected side effects.

The Substance
American theatrical release poster
Directed byCoralie Fargeat
Written byCoralie Fargeat
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBenjamin Kracun
Edited by
  • Coralie Fargeat
  • Jérôme Eltabet
  • Valentin Feron
Music byRaffertie
Production
company
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 19 May 2024 (2024-05-19) (Cannes)
  • 20 September 2024 (2024-09-20) (United Kingdom and United States)
  • 6 November 2024 (2024-11-06) (France)
Running time
141 minutes[2]
Countries
  • France
  • United Kingdom
  • United States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$17.5 million[3]
Box office$32.3 million[4][5]

An international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, and the United States,[1] the film had its world premiere on 19 May 2024 at the 77th Cannes Film Festival main competition, where Fargeat won Best Screenplay. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom and the United States by Mubi on 20 September, and is scheduled for release in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on 6 November.

Plot

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On her 50th birthday, Elisabeth Sparkle, a once-celebrated, now-faded Hollywood movie star, is unceremoniously dismissed from the long-running aerobics TV show she hosted, with producer Harvey citing her advanced age as the reason. While driving home, Elisabeth is distracted by a billboard featuring herself being taken down, resulting in a major accident. At a hospital check-up, a young male nurse slips her a flash drive advertising The Substance, a serum that generates a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of one's self. After some deliberation, Elisabeth orders The Substance and injects the single-use activator serum, resulting in a much younger version of herself emerging from a slit in her back.

The Substance establishes a symbiotic relationship between the two bodies: Elisabeth must transfer her consciousness between bodies every seven days, with the inactive body remaining unconscious. The other self also requires daily injections of "stabilizer fluid" extracted from the original via a lumbar puncture to prevent deterioration. The other self, which names itself Sue, is quickly hired as Elisabeth's replacement by Harvey. Her new TV show skyrockets her to fame, eventually being selected to host the broadcaster's major New Year's show. As Sue, she enjoys a confident, hedonistic lifestyle, while becoming an insecure recluse when living as Elisabeth.

After a one-night stand, Sue extracts extra stabilizer fluid from Elisabeth to extend the evening's sexual activities. The next morning, Elisabeth wakes to find that her index finger has aged more rapidly. The supplier warns that staying as Sue longer than seven days causes irreversible rapid aging of her original self, and Elisabeth must follow the switching schedule to prevent this from happening again. Despite being a single consciousness, both personas begin viewing themselves as separate individuals and quickly grow to despise each other; Elisabeth becomes jealous of Sue's beauty and success, and resents the latter's frequent disregard of the switching schedule, whereas Sue is appalled by Elisabeth's constant self-loathing and binge-eating. Following a particularly self-destructive episode as Elisabeth, a disturbed Sue refuses to switch back, deciding to remain as the other self permanently.

Three months later, on the eve of the New Year's telecast, Sue finds Elisabeth's body completely depleted of stabilizer fluid. The supplier informs her that the only way to replenish the fluid is by switching back to her original self. When they switch, Elisabeth finds herself horrifically transformed, now a near-hairless and deformed hunchback. Desperate to stop Sue's stabilizer abuse from further degrading her body, Elisabeth acquires a serum designed to terminate Sue the following day. However, still craving admiration, Elisabeth stops before injecting the full syringe of termination serum and proceeds to resuscitate Sue, disrupting their symbiotic balance and leaving both fully conscious. Realizing Elisabeth's intent upon seeing the near-empty syringe, Sue flies into a rage and brutally murders her by repeatedly smashing her face into a mirror, stomping and kicking her before leaving to host the New Year's special.

Without Elisabeth, Sue's body begins to rapidly deteriorate, with three teeth, a fingernail and a right ear falling off. In a panic, Sue rushes to her apartment and tries to create a new version of herself with the leftover activator serum, something expressly forbidden by the supplier. This inadvertently creates "Monstro Elisasue", a grotesque hybrid of the two forms.

Elisasue dresses and goes to the live broadcast wearing an improvised Elisabeth Sparkle mask. As the creature gets on stage and starts to speak to the audience, the mask falls off. The horrified audience erupts into violent chaos; a man decapitates Elisasue before her body sprays and drenches the audience with blood. What is left of Elisasue escapes the studio and collapses into viscera. Elisabeth's original face emerges, crawls onto her neglected star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, gazes at the stars, smiles, and melts. The bloody remains are cleaned up by a floor scrubber the next day.

Cast

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Margaret Qualley, Coralie Fargeat and Demi Moore at TIFF 2024

Production

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In January 2022, it was announced that Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley would star in the film, with Working Title Films producing and Universal Pictures distributing. Coralie Fargeat would serve as director, but also as producer alongside Working Title co-chairs Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan.[6][7][8] It was co-produced by Blacksmith, a Paris-based studio created by Fargeat that same year.[9][10] In February 2022, it was announced that Ray Liotta had joined the cast.[11] Liotta died in May 2022, which led Fargeat to later recast the role with Dennis Quaid.[12]

Principal photography required 108 days of shooting and officially wrapped in October 2022.[13][14] The film was shot entirely in France, with studio filming taking place in the Paris region and exterior scenes doubling for Los Angeles shot in the Côte d'Azur.[13] Since the film required so many practical effects, and a prolonged shooting schedule, France was chosen as a filming location, in part due to their tax credit rebates. For the initial part of principal photography, the crew ranged from 8 for exterior scenes to 200 for practical effects work in studio.[13]

Fargeat described adopting a "lab shoot" approach to filming. After filming with the cast was complete, a full month was tacked on at the end for the "lab shoot", where she and a reduced crew captured details and insert shots like a back being split open or injection.[15]

Prosthetics and makeup effects

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Fargeat opted to rely on practical effects, accounting for 70–80% of the final film,[16] resisting the push toward cheaper digital effects.[13] Fargeat felt that the use of practical effects was crucial to convey the themes of violence.[17]

Prosthetics and makeup effects for the film were designed by Pierre-Olivier Persin and his company, Pop FX.[18] Persin dedicated over a year to the project. Persin was hired after the designs from several other companies were rejected for being overly masculine.[19] His concept designs were unique in that they incorporated a sense of femininity and grace rather than doing "a rubber monster for the guys".[18]

Persin would design the prosthetics for Elisabeth's transformation process, which were organized into a series of five stages, starting with a withered finger ("The Finger").[18] The next stage would be a more aged look, called "Requiem" (inspired by Requiem for a Dream), followed by the hunched-backed, saggy "Gollum", the creature at the climax "Monstro Elisasue"[20] and lastly, "Gremlin".[18][note 1] Fargeat deliberately sought to avoid making the effects look realistic, aiming instead to create a deformed representation of the aging process, shaped by the characters' fear and anger.[22]

For the birth of Sue, a combination of sophisticated silicone dummies, prosthetics on body doubles and applied makeup on Demi Moore were used.[21] The entire birth sequence was shot with practical effects with the exception of the close up of the eye splitting.[23]

For the nude scenes, Margaret Qualley wore breast prostheses to portray an idealized image of beauty, reminiscent of Jessica Rabbit. Qualley humorously explained the process: "Unfortunately, there is no magic boob potion, so we had to glue those on... [they endowed] me with the rack of a lifetime—just not my lifetime."[24]

Special care was required for scenes involving partial prosthetics, starting with Elisabeth Sparkle's withered finger. The goal was to avoid an unbalanced appearance where the prosthetic finger might look bulkier than the untouched ones. Achieving a seamless look-in without adding excess volume meant creating extremely thin prosthetics. During testing, the initial version appeared too large and awkward, prompting Persin to halt the development on all other prosthetics and the team re-configure their designs on the basis of the finger. In total all the prosthetics were re-designed twice.[20]

Prosthetics application ranged between 45 minutes[20] to 7 hours[19][note 2] depending on character complexity, sometimes only leaving an hour or two for filming in a given day.[26][15][27]

For the scene where Elisabeth Sparkle removes her makeup in front of a mirror, makeup artist Stéphanie Guillon intervened after the 11th take to prevent a rash. "I took the remover pad and I squashed everything, and I said, 'I removed everything, that's over. You have already 11. You cannot have more because tomorrow she will have a red face.' Normally you don't do that! But it was too much because it was very hard on her skin."[18]

Designing Monstro Elisasue

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Prosthetics for the "Monstro Elisasue"

The head is a little bit like a female Elephant Man [...] that was what Coralie wanted, the sensibility of The Elephant Man, the David Lynch movie. We spent lots of time designing Monstro with all the breasts and trying to balance everything. Is she fat enough? How many boobs? Maybe we should add a jaw here. Maybe we can [add a spine], because there's lots of spines in the story from the very beginning.[20]

— Pierre-Olivier Persin

The design process for Monstro, the grotesque hybrid creature featured in the film's climax, took Persin and his team nearly a month to finalize the design, which fused the two characters.[20] Fargeat had always envisioned the film ending with a monster—a creation she referred to as a "Picasso of male expectations".[28]

Persin drew inspiration from Niki de Saint Phalle, a French sculptor known for her vibrant and curvaceous figures, especially her depictions of female dancers.[18] Artist Fernando Botero, whose sculptures often feature women with exaggerated proportions, also served as an artistic reference.[28] Persin was also influenced by David Cronenberg's The Fly.[21]

During pre-production, Persin expressed concerns about having Qualley wear the suit, noting that only her eye would be visible through the prosthetics.[20] Fargeat pushed for Qualley in the suit for close-up shots, recognizing the importance of her performance. Persin later acknowledged that Qualley's presence and performance were essential and visibly impactful in the final film.[18]

Qualley would later describe wearing the prosthetics as "torture", adding, "I had this awesome team of prosthetic artists that put it on me and took it off of me and got me through the day, making me laugh a couple of times while I was just on the brink of panic."[29] "My problem was I had to cry while I had the monster costume on. At a certain point, you're just swimming—there's like a layer of tears and snot inside your prosthetics, and they're just trying to reglue it down."[30] The prosthetics application for Qualley required 6 hours[28] and was filmed over the course of eight days.[31] The suit was also designed with a cooling vest similar to what racecar drivers use.[16]

Fargeat personally donned the Monstro suit for the shots showing blood spraying from Monstro's point of view. She held the camera herself, without the headpiece, while wearing the suit, as her arm was inside the blood rig.[20]

The climax featured a total of five heads (including a special head with a cavity that splits open to birth a breast attached to an umbilical cord), two full bodysuits, two partial bodysuits, and a mold of Moore's head.[28] The suit was entirely practical, with the exception of Moore's screaming face, which was achieved using digital effects.[32]

For scenes with Monstro spraying blood, the special effects team utilized 30,000 gallons[31][28] of fake blood and a fire hose.[32] The lack of mobility from the suit forced the stunt performer to be placed on a dolly, when the blood rig was first tested, the stunt performer went rolling backward down the long blood-soaked hallway featured near the end of the film.[32] The shots of the audience being sprayed with blood in the climax were achieved in one take.[28]

The constant spraying of blood caused the latex bodysuit to turn pink as it became saturated quickly. The suit required repainting, resewing, and drying after each day. To maintain cleanliness and sanitation, the crew also sprayed vodka inside the suit every night.[21]

Music

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The film's score was conceived by British producer and composer Raffertie.[33] The songs "At Last" performed by Etta James, "Pump It Up!" by DJ Endor, and "Ugly and Vengeful" by Anna von Hausswolff are also featured in the film,[34] along with the theme from Vertigo written by Bernard Herrmann, and Richard Strauss' tone poem "Also sprach Zarathustra", notably featured in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.[35][36]

Release

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The Substance was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 19 May 2024.[37][38] The film received a standing ovation.[note 3] It has also been selected for the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024 under the World Cinema section.[42]

Working Title's parent company, Universal Pictures, which originally signed on as the distributor through a deal with Working Title Films, stepped away from the project but remained credited as a copyright holder in the film's credits. Multiple sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the studio was "worried about the prospect of releasing the film".[15][43] Prior to its Cannes debut, Mubi acquired worldwide rights to the film for $12.5 million,[3] planning to distribute it theatrically in North America, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Latin America, Benelux as well as holding rights for Turkey and India, with its sales company subsidiary The Match Factory handling worldwide sales.[44] The Substance opened in theaters in the US, UK, Latin America, Germany, Canada and Netherlands on 20 September 2024,[45] as well as in Spain on 11 October 2024.[46] Metropolitan Filmexport acquired French distribution rights from The Match Factory,[47][48] and will release the film on 6 November 2024.[49]

Reception

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Box office

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As of October 20, 2024, The Substance has grossed $13.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $18.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $32.3 million.[4][5]

In the United States and Canada, The Substance was released alongside Transformers One and Never Let Go, and was projected to gross around $3 million from 1,949 theaters in its opening weekend.[50] The film made $1.3 million on its first day, including $512,000 from Wednesday and Thursday night previews.[3] It went on to debut to $3.2 million, finishing sixth at the box office.[51][52] The film dropped only 39% the following weekend, grossing $1.8 million.[53]

Critical response

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 306 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "Audaciously gross, wickedly clever, and possibly Demi Moore's finest hour, The Substance is a gasp-inducing feat from writer-director Coralie Fargeat."[54] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 57 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[55] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it an 80% overall positive score (including an average of 4 out of 5 stars), with 75% saying they would definitely recommend it.[3]

Peter Bradshaw's four-star review in The Guardian called it "a cheerfully silly and outrageously indulgent piece of gonzo body-horror comedy".[56] David Ehrlich of IndieWire graded the film an A, calling it "an epic, audacious body horror masterpiece... an instant classic. The most sickly entertaining theatrical experience of the year".[57] Nicholas Barber of the BBC awarded the film four stars out of five, while singling out Moore's performance: "Ripping into her best big-screen role in decades, Demi Moore is fearless in parodying her public image."[58] Phil de Semlyen's five star review in Time Out says it is "Moore who glues it all together, going full Isabelle Adjani-in-Possession in a vanity-free performance full of bruised ego, dawning horror and vulnerability".[59]

Owen Gleiberman in Variety praised the film's director: "Coralie Fargeat works with the flair of a grindhouse Kubrick in a weirdly fun, cathartically grotesque fusion of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Showgirls."[60] Radhika Seth in Vogue called it an "audacious piece of filmmaking ... the most exciting release to have debuted on the Croisette so far" and that it was her "current pick to win the Palme d'Or".[61] Damon Wise in Deadline said it is "a riotous, dreamlike horror-thriller that ends in a delirious symphony of blood, guts and otherwise undefinable viscera".[62] Javier Ocaña of El País wrote that the film "is not that great", partly "because subtlety is not Fargeat's greatest virtue", but "mostly because the first 45 minutes seem like a covert remake" of John Frankenheimer's [superior] Seconds.[63]

Themes

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Wendy Ide of The Guardian praised The Substance for its feminist perspective of older women, making note of how other female-led horror films like Carrie or Rosemary's Baby centre on themes of menstruation and childbirth. She wrote that The Substance, in contrast, "not only offers a female perspective on women's bodies, but also argues that things only start to get properly messy once fertility is a dim memory".[64] New York Times critic Alissa Wilkinson noted the satirically exaggerated camera angles and shots, depicting the female characters in a way "that feels reminiscent mostly of porn". She wrote:

In the end that's what The Substance does best: not just remind us about the absurd standards for female beauty and the destructive power of celebrity, but turn the mirror back on us. The sharpest critique isn't about bodies, but about the way we've trained ourselves to look at those bodies, and the effect that has on our own. The movie is, appropriately enough, a mirror, and our discomfort reveals our own hidden biases and fears about ourselves. Being older, being famous, being seen, being loved, being usurped by someone younger and hotter—it's all here. Nothing like a mirror to remind you what lurks beneath.[65]

Several critics have noted the film's similarities to Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.[66]

Accolades

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Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Cannes Film Festival 25 May 2024 Palme d'Or Coralie Fargeat Nominated [67]
Best Screenplay Won [68][69]
Hamptons International Film Festival 5 October 2024 Career Achievement in Acting Award Demi Moore Honored [70]
Miskolc International Film Festival 14 September 2024 Emeric Pressburger Prize The Substance Nominated [71]
Toronto International Film Festival 15 September 2024 People's Choice Award, Midnight Madness Won [72]

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Notes

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  1. ^ Other sources refer to the last stage as "The Blob".[21]
  2. ^ Sources differ slightly on the exact number; for instance, Moore stated that she spent 6.5 to 9 hours in the chair, possibly including takedown time.[25]
  3. ^ Applause was reported to have lasted 9 minutes,[39] 11 minutes,[40] or 13 minutes.[41]

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