How French Filmmaker Coralie Fargeat Delivered Feminist Body Horror Breakout ‘The Substance’

How French Filmmaker Coralie Fargeat Delivered Feminist Body Horror Breakout ‘The Substance’

Coralie Fargeat has always zigged where others zagged. But knowing what she did and did not want to do helped her to focus her goals. She grew up in Paris on a diet of American movies, which built her taste for genre films. As a teenager, she shot “Star Wars” remakes with her little camera in her backyard. “The ones that were resonating with me that were going out of the real world, out of reality, were more English-speaking genre films,” she to…

The Substance review | Coralie Fargeat’s body horror is outrageously good

Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge follow-up gives Demi Moore the role of a lifetime. Here’s our The Substance review.  Coralie Fargeat’s 2017 rape-revenge film Revenge was a thrillingly bloody affair, so expectations were high for the director’s next project. Thankfully, she has not only met, but exceeded them all with The Substance, a shocking, darkly hilarious body horror.  Demi Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a TV fitness instructor, fired from her j…