Revenge director Coralie Fargeat is back with a new film – and it looks really, really good. Here is the teaser trailer for The Substance
Seven years ago, Coralie Fargeat thrilled audiences with a revenge thriller whose bloody images still reverberate in cinemas today. Revenge turned out to be an uncompromising masterpiece of body horror and delivered a merciless battle for survival fought out between sand, dust and rock in the desert.
In May, Fargeat presented her long-awaited follow-up: The Substance. The French filmmaker’s second directorial work hit like a bomb at the Cannes Film Festival and caused extreme audience reactions. The teaser trailer finally tells us why. Here’s a wild movie ride coming our way
Teaser trailer for The Substance: Demi Moore embarks on a stylish horror-thriller nightmare
The story of The Substance revolves around movie star Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), who was once one of Hollywood’s A-list. However, the best years of her career are long behind her. The temporary low point is reached when she is fired as the presenter of her own fitness show on her 50th birthday.
It is precisely at this moment that she receives a mysterious offer: a new drug is supposed to give her the opportunity to play at the top of the dream factory again. Just one injection and Elisabeth wakes up in the body of young Sue (Margaret Qualley). But it doesn’t take long for some unwanted side effects to set in.
Read on to find out more: Our Cannes report on The Substance with Demi Moore
Based on the teaser trailer, Fargeat has not lost its flair for stylish images that burn themselves into your head with sudden eruptions of violence. On the contrary: after the body horror of Revenge took place in a manageable setting, she now really turns up the heat and unleashes a brutal Hollywood inferno
