Demi Moore ’s gruesome new horror movie The Substance is sparking walkouts at screenings from fans who can’t handle the film’s shockingly graphic nature . The Hollywood star, 61, has made a bloody splash in her big screen comeback , with Metro.co.
uk’s reviewer branding it ‘the most disgusting film I have ever seen’. It was lauded by gleefully grossed-out critics as ‘demented’ and ‘an instant classic’ when it premiered at Cannes back in May, revealing its enthusiasm for splattering the audience with blood, gore and organs as it embraces being a very literal body horror. And it’s this aspect that many fans can’t get over, regaling their followers on social media with grossed-out reactions in cinemas across the UK and US to the film.
‘Went to see The Substance last night and we had to walk out for the last hour. Just too gory for me!’ admitted @mattagertz on X. ‘Never in my life seen so many people walk out of a theatre lmao [sic]’, posted @dmgurei, as he claimed that fans weren’t walking out because it was ‘that bad’ but ‘for, uh, other reasons’.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video The film follows fading A-list actress Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore) who, after being axed from her exercise segment on a morning show by Dennis Quaid’s hideous TV exec Harvey, takes an experimental substance that ‘generates a new, younger, more beautiful, more perfect, you’. This new,.
