The Substance(Movie, 2024)

Name: The Substance
Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
Released: 2024
Duration: T02:20:00
Rating: 3.6

| 2h 20min | Genres: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 1,074 votes) 9

The Substance is a 2024 satirical body horror film written, directed, co-edited, and co-produced by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity (Demi Moore) who uses a black market drug that creates a much younger version of herself (Margaret Qualley) with unexpected side effects. Dennis Quaid also stars. An international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film had its world premiere on 19 May 2024 at the 77th Cannes Film Festival main competition, where Fargeat won Best Screenplay. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom and the United States by Mubi on 20 September 2024, and in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on 6 November 2024. The film was a critical and commercial success, earning over $56 million on a $17.5 million production budget. ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Substance

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

About The Substance

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

Trailer for The Substance + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Official Trailer #2(Trailer, 0:36)

Official Trailer #2 (Trailer)

Mark it in your calendar (Teaser)

Official Trailer (Trailer)

Official Teaser (Teaser)

Official Clip - Pretty Girls Should Always Smile (Clip)

Official Clip - Get Ready With Me (Clip)

Official Clip - I'd Like To Order (Clip)

The Substance (2024) - "I'm Sue" (Clip)

Official Clip - Lucky Day (Clip)

Official Clip (Clip)

In Conversation with THE SubsTANCE Filmmaker Coralie Fargeat (Featurette)

Official Interview - Margaret Qualley (Featurette)

Official Interview - Demi Moore at Cannes Film Festival (Featurette)

THE SubsTANCE - Coralie Fargeat rips beauty standards to gory shreds | MUBI Podcast (Featurette)

Breaking Down THE SubsTANCE's Shrimp Scene (Featurette)

The hype is real (Featurette)

TIFF 2024 Q&A (Featurette)

THE SubsTANCE Trailer German Deutsch (2024) Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Official websites:

Production countries: France, United Kingdom (UK)

Shot in: Paris, Studios d'Épinay, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Plays in: Hollywood (California)

Inspired by: The Fly (movie), Requiem for a Dream (movie)

Made by: Working Title Films, Blacksmith

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 35 languages: Arabic (AR), Azerbaijani (AZ), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/20/2024 (World premiere: 09/07/2024)

Cast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Christian Erickson

Director: Coralie Fargeat

Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner

Screenwriter: Coralie Fargeat

Film Editor: Valentin Féron, Coralie Fargeat

Director of Photography: Benjamin Kračun

Composer: Raffertie

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Substansiya"

"某种物质"

"სუბსტანცია"

"החומר"

"ماده"

Keywords: beauty, female protagonist, actress, new years eve, capitalism, body horror, toxic masculinity, disfigurement, los angeles, california, has been, beauty standards, aerobics, black market, youth, satire

Budget: 17,500,000 USD

Revenue: 46,818,041 USD (= 268%)

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The Substance(Movie, 2024)

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About The Substance

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