The Substance was essentially the most thrilling horror film of 2024. Written, directed and co-produced by French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat, The Substance is about an getting old star’s desperation to be seen as lovely informed by way of the car of bloody, stomach-turning physique horror.
For followers who love The Substance and are in search of comparable movies to look at, these 10 motion pictures would possibly scratch that itch:
- Revenge (2017). Coralie Fargeat’s function debut is a bloody Mad Max impressed motion horror film a few younger lady (Matilda Lutz) who’s chased throughout a desert panorama by her boyfriend and his two dirtbag associates after a sexual assault severs civility among the many group. Revenge is to the rape/revenge subgenre what The Substance is to physique horror. They’re each feminist movies that really feel like darkish fairy tales. Additionally they each comprise finales that are very brutal and very enjoyable.
- Actuality+ (2014). This 22-minute quick movie was written and directed by Fargeat and is out there on YouTube. It’s set in a close to future the place biotechnology has superior to permit folks with an implanted chip to see themselves and others as bodily good human beings for 12 hours a day. You may see how the concepts in The Substance advanced for Fargeat during the last 10 years.
- Society (1989). This can be a physique horror film concerning the pressures of conforming to societal beliefs and it could be the one horror film as obsessive about butts as The Substance.
- Infinity Pool (2023). Brandon Cronenberg wrote and directed this horror film a few vacationing man (Alexander Skarsgård) who learns a loophole to native legislation when he by chance kills a person whereas drunk driving. He is ready to pay a big sum of cash to be cloned and have his clone put to demise in his place.
- The Shining (1980). A number of aesthetic decisions in The Substance appear to be impressed by Stanley Kubrick, just like the crimson hallway with patterned carpet, using the 2001: A Area Odyssey (1968) theme music and the nonsensical floorplan of Elisabeth’s residence. The double types of the lady in room 237 from The Shining additionally come to thoughts as they symbolize the identical lady in her younger and aged our bodies.
- Demise Turns into Her (1992). Two ladies determined to be younger and delightful ingest a black market serum with unintended unwanted effects. Sound acquainted? The bottom-breaking computer-generated results is likely to be thought of physique horror if the tone of the movie weren’t overtly comedic.
- Scream 3 (2000). Whereas the tone of this slasher film is rather more comedic than The Substance, it’s concerning the darkish facet of Hollywood. The diabolical actions of males like Dennis Quaid’s character in The Substance is the backdrop in opposition to which the story is ready.
- Carrie (1976). The bloody penultimate scene in The Substance will remind horror followers of the long-lasting promenade massacre.
- Videodrome (1983). The scene of Sue reaching inside her personal physique to take away a rooster leg will remind viewers of Videodrome. The film follows a tv station worker (James Woods) who searches for the supply of a weird broadcast.
- Lifeless Ringers (1988). Twin gynecologists (each performed by Jeremy Irons) are so shut that it looks like they share one life, even switching identities to sleep with ladies and carry out surgical procedures. Like in The Substance it appears their survival is tied to one another — what one does deeply impacts the opposite.
- Us (2019). A vacationing household is attacked and pursued by their doppelgängers, often known as the “Tethered”. The doppelgängers want to homicide their counterparts and commandeer their lives.
- Requiem for a Dream (2000). The bodily prices of “substances” are on full, ugly show on this Darren Aronofsky drama.
- X (2022). The concern of getting old and lack of magnificence is a serious supply of hysteria for the murderous septuagenarian Pearl in Ti West’s X trilogy. Mia Goth portrays each the younger Maxine Minx and the aged Pearl.