The Substance
Movie • 2024 • Horror
ReportDescribed as an “explosive, feminist take on body horror.” Plot TBA.
This movie contains 53 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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onlycallisto
Mildly. The neighbour has an obsession with the young version of the character and seems to always be around.
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onlycallisto
Not in the classic sense of partner or parental violence, but there is a lot of extreme physical violence in the home.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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onlycallisto
This is the whole point of the movie. Lots of extreme beatings, with dispassionate audiences.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Addiction
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fraisierdesbois
The substance can be seen as such
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Is there addiction?
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onlycallisto
Arguable. The main character behaves like an addict towards "The Substance" which is an allegory for plastic surgery and other youth-sustaining products. There are lines about 'wanting to stop' and being unable to stop.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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onlycallisto
Sue goes out drinking and brings home a man. The next day it is shown that they had a lot of alcohol.
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Closeup of a fly drowning
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Are there bugs?
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onlycallisto
There are a couple shots of a fly, once on someone's neck and once in a drink.
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Assault
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onlycallisto
Not slapped? But extensively brutalised. This film is very violent against a woman's body.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Anonymous
Fighting, no beatings from a bully.
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Bodily Harm
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Are any hands damaged?
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onlycallisto
At the end, a fingernail peels off, resulting in loss of the whole finger.
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Are there dislocations?
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Batwing
There is lots of weird body horror, no explicit dislocations but body parts in weird positions
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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ChelseaSinclair
There is gasping for air at several parts, but not necessarily suffocating
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Is there decapitation?
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A character’s head explodes.
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Is someone choked?
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A character chokes another in a violent fight inside the home
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Is there body horror?
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Batwing
avoid this movie if you don’t like body horror, it’s full of it
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Does a head get squashed?
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onlycallisto
Not exactly squashed but repeatedly (to a comical degree) bashed against the wall with full visual of the gore
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Batwing
yeah she pulls out 3 of her teeth very realistic too
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Does someone become unconscious?
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onlycallisto
Each time the drug is used or a 'switch' happens the character collapses dramatically. There is also one scene in the final third where a character is beaten unconscious.
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Does someone break a bone?
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onlycallisto
There's one long moment where an arthritic knee is forced to move, with bone breaking sounds. Later a finger snaps off.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Batwing
there are seizure- like moments but not traditional seizures
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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onlycallisto
Fingernails peeling off in a grotesque way towards the end of the film
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Is someone tortured?
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People are harmed. No one is tortured.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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ChelseaSinclair
The creature at the end falls and explodes, in a sense dying, but not a traditional “fall to death” scenario
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Is there eye mutilation?
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onlycallisto
There's kind of 'everything mutilation' in this movie but in particular there are some shots of eyes duplicating themselves and bulging
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Is there excessive gore?
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onlycallisto
Tons of 80s style prosthetics, comically large amounts of blood, surgical stuff, wounds, etc. Extremely gory film.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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onlycallisto
The main character dies at the end.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Batwing
not in the traditional sense but there’s scenes that mimic overdose in a way
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Family
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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fraisierdesbois
There's a car crash scene that made me jump
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Is there a shower scene?
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onlycallisto
There are many times in the film where the characters are shown nude in the shower, usually in various states of distress.
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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onlycallisto
After she has 4 martinis cut to her v* at home, no visual only audio.
When the young version wakes up the first time she v*, not sure if visual as I closed my eyes.
At the end of the film the 'monster' sort of vomits up a piece of viscera, the audio is very triggering but the visual is more of an object.
There are a lot lot lot of other possible triggers for you though, huge amount of spitting, gagging, open mouth chewing, gross food stuff etc.
When the young version wakes up the first time she v*, not sure if visual as I closed my eyes.
At the end of the film the 'monster' sort of vomits up a piece of viscera, the audio is very triggering but the visual is more of an object.
There are a lot lot lot of other possible triggers for you though, huge amount of spitting, gagging, open mouth chewing, gross food stuff etc.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Anonymous
No, but there is a shot of a man at a urinal — closeup of his face
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Does someone spit?
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onlycallisto
There's one shot towards the end where someone spits directly at the camera, it's quite gross. There is a lot lot lot of mouth misophonia stuff, open mouth chewing, too.
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Is there audio gore?
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onlycallisto
Tons, constantly. This is a very misphonic movie.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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onlycallisto
Many times in the film, in grotesque ways. You can generally see it coming, basically anytime she's in the bathroom with her body double. The worst bit is towards the end she's putting a large needle repeatedly into an infected wound.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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onlycallisto
The main character is briefly in hospital after a car crash.
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Is there menstruation?
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anagonzalez
no, but when a man sees blood on the floor he asks a female character if she's cranky because she's on her period
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Mental Health
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Anonymous
Not explicitly stated, but a character experiences stmproms of body dysmorphia and depression.
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onlycallisto
Not in the classic sense but the two main characters are the 'same person' and they beat each other extensively.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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onlycallisto
Arguable. If you characterise the main character as mentally ill... there is a lot of violence in this movie.
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onlycallisto
The main character lives between two different bodies. At one point they both become awake at once and fight.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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onlycallisto
DID is not part of the story but this story does have DID features, with splits between body and self.
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ChelseaSinclair
The character expresses no longer willing to live in a certain version of herself, willing to endure extensive suffering to no longer live in her life anymore, ultimately tries to kill a version of herself. Not a traditional suicide attempt by any means, but could be interpreted as suicidal ideation in certain ways.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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onlycallisto
There are hallucinations sometimes, it is never clear how real they are.
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Is there misophonia?
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Batwing
It’s pretty unbearable throughout the entire movie
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Batwing
not in a gender sense
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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onlycallisto
The main character is so dissatisfied with her body that she goes to extremes to become young again, with catastrophic consequences.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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onlycallisto
Not exactly. But the way they film the character's experience when she is due to 'switch' may be reminiscent of an anxiety attack.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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anagonzalez
some people might find some shower scenes claustrophobic
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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onlycallisto
Arguable. The film does deal with extremely unhealthy relationships with food, binging, and idolization of thinness
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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Anonymous
A lot
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Is there screaming?
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onlycallisto
Lots, during severe fighting scenes
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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ChelseaSinclair
Not explicitly, but there’s implications it could be happening, depending on how you interpret certain scenes
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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ChelseaSinclair
There are scenes reminiscent of birthing as the new self emerges from her former body, pulls things out of her body, and the monster at the end “births” a breast, in a sense.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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Batwing
There are negative comments made towards fatness
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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onlycallisto
No, but I do think some might be troubled by this film's treatment of disfigurement. There is a 'monster' in the film. The message is not at all about disability but could be read that way.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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onlycallisto
Arguable. The main character is 50 but gets to live in a younger body so has relationships with younger men. However, the men in the film are generally portrayed as predatory so it doesn't have the 'vibes' of an age gap relationship.
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Religious
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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onlycallisto
No explicit sex but lots of nudity, sexualised imagery, and one scene of drunk people about to have sex (thwarted)
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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onlycallisto
The young version of the character is filmed in a highly sexualised way, to a comical degree
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Are there nude scenes?
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onlycallisto
Lots of nudity in this film, not generally sexual though
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Are there fat suits?
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onlycallisto
Not a fat suit, but a large deformed body prosthetic is used at the end of the film.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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onlycallisto
Arguable. It's certainly not a happy movie but maybe you could think she found peace.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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onlycallisto
There is a dramatic rolling car crash towards the beginning of the film. It's shot from inside the car. The character is shown uninjured afterwards.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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onlycallisto
There is a dramatic rolling car crash towards the beginning of the film.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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onlycallisto
Tons, constantly.
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Is there gun violence?
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onlycallisto
At the end, there are calls for someone to shoot at a monster, but it doesn't really happen.
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