2024 · 141 min

The Substance

Name: The Substance
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Released: 2024-09-18

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

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Quick Facts

Confidence: HIGH

Status: Provisional

Director: Coralie Fargeat

Why It's Disturbing

A fading celebrity turns to a black-market cell-replicating substance that creates a younger version of herself, involving body-horror imagery, disfigurement, and disturbing themes around aging, identity, and beauty standards.

Psychological20

Gore8

Bleakness18

Realism20

Dread20

Violence15

Body Horror63

Taboo8

Lingering Impact22

22.3

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The Substance has a DreadQ Score of 19/100. The score reflects psychological impact, dread, bleakness, violence, gore, realism and other disturbance dimensions.

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