liberatingRebecca Bratten Weiss

2 months ago | ncronline.org | Rebecca Weiss |Culture'The Substance' |liberatingRebecca Bratten Weiss

Editor's note: this article contains spoilers. The premise of Coralie Fargeat’s satirical horror film "The Substance" is straightforward: A middle-aged movie star (an Oscar-nominated Demi Moore) is panicking because the industry has declared her obsolete. So when she is offered an illicit treatment called The Substance, which promises "a better version of yourself," she takes it. The film pushes the body horror genre to its extreme, yet the result is strangely liberating.