The Substance 18

"★★★★★ – Demi Moore storms Cannes with a shocking body-horror nightmare" – Telegraph

"★★★★ – heralds the squelchy, sick-making birth of a new horror maestro" – Time Out

"★★★★ – will have audiences gasping, wincing, and laughing in disbelief" – BBC

★★★★ – Guardian

Fading celebrity Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore) is fired from her low-rate TV workout show because of her age.

However, a proposal from a mysterious laboratory offers her a miraculous black market drug – a cell-replicating substance promising to create a younger, better version of herself.

From the provocatrice director of Revenge, this outrageous mix of body-horror and uncompromising satire takes a scalpel to the misogyny of beauty standards.