The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s outrageous new body-horror movie, ends the only way it can: in a great, explosive bloodbath. It’s a fantastic premise based on Fargeat’s very real fears.
“The idea came from living in my own life as being a woman past my 40s, going toward my 50s,” Fargeat tells Inverse. “I started to have those very violent thoughts that it was going to be the end of my life because I wouldn't be able to be valued as a young, sexy girl.”
