MUBI has launched its first full-length trailer for The Substance, the upcoming sci-fi/physique horror film starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid stated to have acquired a nine-to-thirteen minute standing ovation at this yr’s Cannes Movie Pageant. Have a look:
Directed by Coralie Fargeat, The Substance stars Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle, the previous host of an aerobics present fired on her fiftieth birthday. Nonetheless, a mysterious laboratory involves her assist with a neon inexperienced anti-aging serum, providing her the chance to change into a “younger, extra lovely, extra excellent” model of herself.
Now, anybody who’s seen The Wasp Lady, The Leech Lady and even Halle Berry’s Catwoman is aware of there’ll be a mutative catch of some kind, however what precisely that may appear like is offered because the movie’s central thriller. Moore’s character, naturally, injects herself with the miraculous “substance” of the title, whereupon she transforms into the similar-looking, however youthful, Margaret Qualley. As soon as she regains internet hosting duties of her morning aerobics program, it seems Sparkle-Moore and Sparkle-Qualley have some form of problem balancing their “seven day” bodily time share. As Moore states within the trailer, “a slight misuse” of the substance apparently results in paranoia, lack of impulse management, the formation of a number of irises and what seems to be like one thing that isn’t purported to be there rising from her again.
Whereas we don’t know if Sparkle turns into a monster simply but, an unseen consultant of the “substance” warns her, “the one and solely factor to not neglect: you might be one. You possibly can’t escape from your self.” So, do you assume she’ll mutate into an uncanny hybrid of Moore attributes and Qualley attributes? Will Qualley erupt from Moore’s physique, subcutaneously, like a werewolf shedding its dermis? The trailer contains photographs of a fly floating in liquid and Dennis Quaid’s huckster character greedily consuming shrimp. May that imply Sparkle will undergo varied instars, like an arthropod? Is that what she screams about after seeing herself within the mirror, that she’s actually misplaced her backbone?
At its two-hour and twenty-minute runtime, we’ll have loads of time to digest The Substance when it reaches theaters nationwide this September 20.
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