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Demi Moore’s gory new film The Substance has Brits walking out after just minutes saying it’s the ‘most graphic film they’ve ever seen’.
The Substance aims to tackle the issue of impossible Hollywood beauty standards and sees Demi playing the role of Elisabeth Sparkle.
Unceremoniously fired as she celebrates her 50th birthday, Elisabeth discovers a drug on the black market that can create a “younger, more beautiful, more perfect” version of the user. But the drug’s strict conditions are horrifying.
So gruesome, in fact, that moviegoers will walk away after just a few minutes due to the extreme level of gore.
‘At least twenty people left my screening in Leicester Square before the end. It was brutal,” one viewer said The sun.
Demi Moore’s bloody new film The Substance has Brits walking out after just minutes as they say it’s the “most graphic film they’ve ever seen,” The Sun reported on Sunday
The Substance aims to tackle the issue of impossible Hollywood beauty standards and sees Demi play the role of Elisabeth Sparkle
‘Most people looked at it with their hands. It was the most graphic movie I’ve ever seen.’
Demi discussed the film and her character during her first-ever appearance on The Graham Norton Show on Friday.
The Ghost star was joined on the show by her canine companion Pilaf, a chihuahua who attends many of her public events with her.
Her little dog proved to be an instant hit with Lady Gaga, who also appeared in the show with Colin Farrell and Richard Ayoade.
Speaking about the critically acclaimed film, she said: “It’s almost impossible to fully describe it because it deals with some serious topics.
“The best way I can sum it up is that it’s like The Picture of Dorian Gray, Death Becomes Her and a Jane Fonda workout video.”
When asked if it was liberating not to worry about how she looked for the role, she said: “I was really pushed out of my comfort zone, but it was great to show up and be allowed to look bad! ‘
Elsewhere in the conversation, Demi reminisced about appearing naked on the cover of Vanity Fair when she was seven months pregnant with daughter Scout.
She said: ‘It was actually taken especially for me, but then I got the call saying they wanted to use it. I said yes, but I never thought it would have the impact it did.”
The Substance’s ‘deliciously unhinged and terrifying’ levels of carnage have really captured the critics’ attention, with one describing it as ‘a shocking assault on the senses’.
In the film, Elisabeth is dealt a devastating blow on her birthday when she is fired by a ruthless director, played by Dennis Quaid.
Elisabeth feels rejected by a city that once loved her and despairs over her lost star power. She learns from a handsome young nurse about a black market drug that promises to transform the user into a “younger, prettier, more perfect” version of themselves. yourself.
Although Elisabeth initially throws the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
Demi admitted it was refreshing to be ‘allowed to look bad’ in new body horror film The Substance during an appearance on the Graham Norton show
In the film, Elisabeth is dealt a devastating blow on her birthday when she is fired by a ruthless director, played by Dennis Quaid.
The only rule to follow is that Elisabeth and her better self Sue (Margaret Qualley) must switch places every seven days.
So she is forced to live as her 50-year-old self again for a week.
But the lure of youth and a made-for-TV ass proves too strong to resist as she pushes the limits to see what the worst that can happen if she takes an extra day or two away.