Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Clarisse Loughrey

The Substance review: Demi Moore is sensational, but this body-horror yarn loses its way

Mubi

Your support helps us to tell the story

Rage is the only colour in French director Coralie Fargeat’s palette. It stains and saturates. It eats away at thought and language. Both her debut, 2017’s self-explanatory thriller Revenge, and now The Substance, her body-horror statement piece on women and the ageing body, don’t speak so much as they feel – a split gut of emotions poured out and left to fester on screen.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.