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Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle vacuuming her living room in The Substance (2024).

The Mother-Daughter Horror Hidden Inside The Substance

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The scariest thing about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance isn’t the body horror — it’s the multi-generational transmission of trauma. This is not simply a story about an aging woman being cruelly replaced by a younger competitor in a cutthroat industry.…