In 2024 Dennis Quaid played one of the vilest, most greedy, sexist pigs portrayed on screen in quite a while. But I’m not here to talk about the Reagan biopic.
The Substance is a truly wonderful, harrowing, terrifying and hilarious trip of a movie. The only other movie I’ve seen that I felt was able to so effectively put me in the shoes of some of the darkest aspects of the female experience was Possession, which this certainly had shades…
Puts me straight to sleep but like, not in a way that I’m mad about…? Is this how normal people experience ASMR?
This is just a ton of fun. Great makeup effects. Linnea Quigley. A dance sequence to Bahaus’s Stigmata Martyr. And the immortal line “eat a bowl of fuck!” Also, not only does the black guy not die first, but he actually survives to the end and is the the hero of the movie. I wasn’t a huge fan of the main Judy character unfortunately, but all of the other characters were just so over the top and ridiculous in a…
Mr. Waters may or may not have been being facetious when, while in the Criterion closet, he called this the best thing Roger Ebert ever did. What he wasn’t, however, was wrong.
