Demi Moore, who is nominated for Best Actress at the 2025 Oscars, and Margaret Qualley, who plays a younger version of Moore's character in Coralie Fargeat's horror film 'The Substance,' each put their bodies on the line for the demanding shoot.

Written and directed by French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat, the film is an intense, satirical and violent body horror thriller about insecurity and the pressures of the unrealistic beauty standards that society forces onto women both when they are young and when they are older.

The Substance took theaters by storm, but the body horror film starring Demi Moore is not for the weak. Some viewers might prefer to watch it at home so they can take a breath and a walk around the block after witnessing French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s confrontational and explicit imagery.