The Substance
Bloodied Demi Moore Battles Ageism in ‘The Substance’ Body Horror Trailer
Demi Moore plays an aging Hollywood star who embraces a secret cloning procedure to save her career in the trailer for The Substance, a surreal feminist horror pic earlier picked up by Mubi for distribution. Revenge director Coralie Fargeat’s second feature, a campy body horror pic, debuted in Cannes, where it earned the best screenplay […]
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Edinburgh Film Festival’s Midnight Madness Strand to Close With ‘The Substance’
The Edinburgh Film Festival’s Midnight Madness strand will close with the body horror The Substance, starring Demi Moore. Still riding the wave of a nine-minute standing ovation in Cannes, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance also features Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid in a thriller that doubles as a ruthless satire on female body standards and the […]
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Demi Moore Cannes Shocker ‘The Substance’ Sells Wide
Buyers are hot for The Substance. The Demi Moore body horror film from director Coralie Fargeat, one of the buzziest films in this year’s Cannes competition, has all but sold out worldwide following its rapturous reception at last week’s world premiere. The Match Factory, which is handling world sales on the movie, closed deals in […]
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Cannes Halftime Report Card on Films’ Awards Prospects — for Fest and Fall Prizes
As the 77th Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) arrives at its halfway point, here is THR executive editor of awards Scott Feinberg’s assessment of the awards prospects — at the Cannes closing ceremony and later in the fall — of the films that have screened at the fest so far. The Two That Popped One cannot […]
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Demi Moore Addresses Extreme Nudity, Violence in Cannes Shocker ‘The Substance’
Demi Moore said performing in Coralie Fargeat’s body horror shocker The Substance required accepting a “level of vulnerability and rawness” with regard to her own body on screen. Moore put it all out there for the film, a gory, campy satire on beauty standards, toxic masculinity and female self-hatred, with the movie’s frequent and prominent […]
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Cannes: Body-Horror Flick ‘The Substance’ Wows Fest, Getting Nine-Minute Standing Ovation
The Substance, a gruesome body-horror flick, had its world premiere Sunday night in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and was greeted with a nine-minute standing ovation from the crowd at the Grand Lumiere Theatre. The sophomore directorial effort and English-language debut of the French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat — she also wrote, produced and edited the […]
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