Internalized misogyny” is not a phrase you’ll hear me say very often, but I think it’s weirdly appropriate when it comes to Coralie Fargeat’s critically acclaimed body horror film, The Substance, which has become—rather bizarrely—a massive hit since its release last year.
Body-horror films have been around since the silent era. Ultimately, they all ask us to consider the idea at their heart: authenticity.
The Substance is easily one of the best horror films to have been released in 2024 and now Mubi has released a lengthy behind-the-scenes video for it.
The body, believed to be a man in his 50s, was found outside the town of Wentworth on Thursday. He has not been formally identified. The body was found a few hundred metres from the Murray River and about 3km from the centre of the Wentworth township.
Here’s how it works. One thing is for sure, Leigh Whannell knows how to create an unmistakably scary movie. I’m sure his newest and most detailed foray into body horror will be the same.
The latest unofficial entry in the "birds as horror movie villains" section of the genre, Tilman Singer's Alps-set body horror Cuckoo strongly benefits from game performances - especially from Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens - gonzo tonal features, and creative directorial choices from Singer.
There’s a lot of bouncing back and forth between the farmhouse and the barn and the obligatory Rickety Old Pickup Truck with a Dead Battery; at times it’s reminiscent of that insurance commercial with the chainsaw killer, where the teenagers keep making bad decisions. Of course, there are jump scares along the way, some more effective than others.
For Season 2, the creative team went full body horror as David Schwimmer's botanist gets into some serious trouble. “Goosebumps” returned for its second season on Hulu and Disney+ January 10 ...
Though the movie wasn't exactly left open for a sequel, anyway, The Substance director Coralie Fargeat is adamant that her acclaimed body-horror satire will not have a follow-up or
Peter Gray of The AU Review writes: 2025 is off to a great start with Wolf Man. Leigh Whannell trims all the fat and lays out a tense, no nonsense thriller that wraps its animistic telling in a story about relationship dynamics,
Like many moviegoers today, I prefer practical special effects over CGI and I was delighted to see in the featurette that Fargeat agrees. She says she made a conscious decision to use as many practical effects as possible to make the body horror film feel authentic and came up with economically thoughtful tricks for crafting some of the most gruesome sequences,
If you've needed some creepy animated body horror since Owl House ended, Knights of Guinevere might be your jam.