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Pop Culture Happy Hour

The Substance

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The Substance is a bloody, campy, fiercely feminist body horror film. Demi Moore plays a TV aerobics instructor desperate to stay in the spotlight. She learns of a mysterious drug she can inject that causes another, younger, entirely separate version of herself (Margaret Qualley) to splurt out of her back and assume her consciousness. They must switch back and forth or very bad bloody things will happen.

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The substance is a bloody, campy, fiercely feminist and completely Bonzo Banana Pants body horror film.

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Demi Moore plays a TV aerobics instructor who's fired when she turns 50,

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desperate to stay in the spotlight she emails herself of a black market drug a substance

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that births from her body a younger entirely separate version of herself very squelchily.

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But there's a catch she has to switch back and forth between her two bodies

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