The Substance

this was watched for HORRORx52 2025 holy hell. a really good mix of psychological horror and body horror. and the body horror was so uniquely done and actually pretty batshit. pretty clear about being about beauty standards for women, especially in the media and they do it fabulously. demi moore and margaret qualley knocked it out of the park. side note, i thought dennis quaid was vince mcmahon for about half the movie so that added something uncanny to it. but no it was just dennis quaid, who also did a good job playing a misogynist