Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT At every film festival, there’s always one feature that leaves me absolutely floored for one reason or another. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, that film was none other than the body horror epic, The Substance. Written and directed by French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat, who is no stranger to exceptional work, the film confronts and tackles beauty standards with style.
Pros The Substance Is Everything We Want From A Body Horror Epic What would you do if you could make the perfect version of yourself? Would you risk your life in the pursuit of flawlessness? Would you take a curious substance to make all your dreams come true? Elisabeth “Lizzy” Sparkle faces these questions after her long career in Hollywood comes to an abrupt stop. Harvey , her boss at her exercise entertainment studio, wants to replace Lizzy with someone younger, perkier, and hotter.
When she gets the instructions for the road to perfection, “activate, stabilize, switch,” Lizzy desperately dives in, no questions asked. At this moment, Fargeat beautifully encapsulates the art of body horror by giving us a transformative scene full of anguish, shock, and blood. Sue emerges with a perfect smile and body, ready to live her life as the new and improved, younger, sexier version of Elisabeth.
In the end, what we’re left with is a delightfully bloody epic that is humorous, terrifying, and so superb that it’ll be hard to look away despite the need to squirm.
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