The Substance(2024)

Submitted by Jeremy

Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) was once a beloved celebrity, only to fall into obscurity as she hits 50. After she is let go from her show, she learns about a mysterious project called “The Substance”, which allows the users to live as younger, more beautiful versions of themselves while switching between bodies every other week. The younger version of Elisabeth, Sue (Margaret Qualley), quickly becomes famous and replaces Elisabeth on her show, while Elisabeth continues to live alone and bitter.

When Sue uses her younger body for longer than she needs to, Elisabeth’s body starts to get older and more decayed. Sue eventually starts to abuse this and turns Elisabeth’s body into a hideous old hunchbacked crone after more than three months. When Elisabeth decides to terminate Sue, she stops short of completing the task and has her old body killed by Sue.

Sue is set to perform at a New Year’s Eve special at the network, but her body without Elisabeth begins to literally fall apart. Desperate, she uses the activator fluid for The Substance once again (which was designed to only be used once), causing her to become a grotesque hybrid creature called “Monstro Elisasue”. The creature goes to the network and terrifies everyone before its arm comes off and sprays the entire room and audience with blood.

Monstro walks into the streets until it collapses and splatters all over the place. What remains is Elisabeth’s original face crawling to her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She feels happiness one last time before she melts into a puddle of goo, which is then washed away for good the next morning.