Actual Aging Is Far Less Scary Than Watching 'The Substance'

Actual Aging Is Far Less Scary Than Watching 'The Substance' - Allure

Beauty writer Valerie Monroe watched 'The Substance,' a new film that satirizes the quest for eternal youth and the viciousness of a ...

Review: What 'The Substance' Gets Wrong About Aging - The Cut

Real Aging Is Scarier Than Whatever's Going On in The Substance ... least ten years younger than her actual age. For whom exactly would ...

Weirdly, 'The Substance' Made Me Feel Better About Getting Older

I watched Coralie Fargeat's masterful body horror The Substance ... Fargeat's right: I've always hated getting older, regardless of my actual age.

Did you see The Substance? How did it make you feel ... - Reddit

I totally get why The Substance would hit you like that. Body horror can bring up some real fears, especially about aging and how society views ...

'The Substance' Proves Ageism Is Still Rife, But What If There's ...

This could be just another Hollywood dream gone wrong – more jobs for the ageing boys, while the ageing women see their contracts terminated – ...

The Substance is disturbingly ugly, but ultimately makes its point

I became conscious of the sometimes overt, sometimes subliminal messaging that insists women never age, never wrinkle, never gray. And it ...

Getting Old Never Looked So Ugly - The New York Times

The Substance” figures in the long line of movies about what you might call menopausal derangement syndrome — the ostensibly crazy-making ...

A Fearless Demi Moore Faces the Horrors of Aging—or Not—in 'The ...

the Swans. But it's been a long while since she's had a lead role as juicy as her part in The Substance, a gnarly body-horror sci-fi satire ...

“The Substance” Is Poised To Become A Horror/Sci-Fi Classic

There's so much going on in “The Substance.” It's about aging, it's about the male gaze, it's about being replaced by younger, bouncier cool ...

The Body Horror and Beauty Politics of The Substance

... much as it displays how Elisabeth and all women despise themselves as they age. Elisabeth's fame shows how her self-worth, and in turn self ...

Demi Moore on "The Substance" and resisting a toxic beauty culture

To watch a trailer for "The Substance" click on the video player below: ... "I just have a lot of compassion for what a scared little girl ...

'The Substance' Looks Good For Her Age - Dirty Magazine

Then, Elisabeth takes a new medical innovation (the titular 'substance ... I'm not watching this film for its realism. The shallowness – style ...

Age, Abjection and Angles in The Substance - - The McGill Daily

Aging, in its simplest terms, is getting nearer to death, a physical transformation that transgresses inside and outside, alive and dead. This ...

The Substance Captures Frustrations of Being an Aging Woman

It goes on for too long, not so much ... It began with the classic, and expected, “Men—even men much older than you are—stop looking at you.

The Substance: The Horrors of Aging - The Winonan

... watching “The Substance.” What is art if not something that will ... than what Elisabeth ever was. This makes a huge difference between ...

The Substance is allegedly the feminist horror movie of the year. I ...

In the case of The Substance, though, the object of horror is simply a woman who has reached the shriek-inducing age of 50—a feminist twist that ...

For Women, Aging Is Like a Horror Film | The Free Press

Aging doesn't have to be a horror movie. But it will be if you continually get parts of your face cut off and injected with substances until you ...

Female ageing is the ultimate horror story - UnHerd

The young woman understands, correctly, that to age as a woman is to become hated; her futile defence is to hate harder than anyone else. “The ...

The Substance is the grotesque movie our grotesque Ozempic ...

The Substance is overlong and overblown. It is a grotesque spectacle of violence, gore and body-horror. It is voyeuristically explicit, at times downright ...

The Substance, ageing, and the uniquely female experience of body ...

I'm not sure I have much more to say on this topic – other than this little, perhaps obvious, revelation – but it held a moment of deep ...