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4 days, 10 hours ago

‘The Substance,’ ‘A Different Man’: What lessons does body horror try to teach?

LA Times

We miss the way things used to be, or we long for something that never was. “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes breakout that brings a career-best performance from Demi Moore, leans harder into the “horror” part of body horror than “A Different Man,” which says quite a bit given that the latter film shows us a man’s face gradually peeling …

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4 weeks ago

Blood, sweat and fears: Inside the rise of body horror

Hindustan Times

The human body is a grotesque battlefield, or at least that’s one way to look at it. The idea of body horror can be traced at least as far back as the 19th-century Gothic novel, says Xavier Aldana Reyes, a scholar of Gothic horror in films and literature, at Manchester Metropolitan University. “Body horror” is believed to have been coined …

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3 months ago

The Substance viewers argue over ‘plot hole’ that threatens to spoil new body horror film

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Viewers of Demi Moore’s new body horror film cannot agree on …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Demi Moore arrives to discuss 'full frontal nudity' film The Substance at a Q&A as the body horror is branded 'disgusting and dread-inducing' in a pair of SLIPPERS at London's BFI

Daily Mail

Demi Moore's new role as aging Hollywood star Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance involves full frontal nudity and dread-inducing gore. Demi's film, in which she co-stars with Margaret Qualley, is a blood-soaked dystopian satire of the male gaze, which takes graphic approach to speaking truth to power. Demi Moore 's new role as aging Hollywood star Elisabeth Sparkle in The …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Substance is hailed an 'instant classic' as critics brand the 'disgusting and dread-inducing' body-horror a 'sledgehammer parable for the Ozempic generation'

Daily Mail

A blood-soaked dystopian satire of the male gaze, The Substance takes a VERY graphic approach to speaking truth to power. A blood-soaked dystopian satire of the male gaze, The Substance takes a VERY graphic approach to speaking truth to power - but it's the film's 'deliciously unhinged and dread-inducing' levels of gore that have really commanded the critics' attention Starring …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Robin Redbreast: The terrifying 'lost' 1970s horror that was Britain's answer to Rosemary's Baby

BBC

Robin Redbreast: The terrifying 'lost' 1970s horror that was Britain's answer to Rosemary's Baby BFI A little-remembered TV film broadcast on the BBC, Robin Redbreast was a chilling parable – about a single, pregnant woman trapped in a sinister village – that was ahead of its time. "I'd had the idea of doing something in the folk horror genre," Peake …

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1 year, 8 months ago

'Sick Of Myself' Portrays Our Need For External Validation

Huff Post

In Kristoffer Borgli's "Sick of Myself," Kristine Kujath Thorp plays a young woman who goes to dangerous lengths to seem interesting. “A friend of mine who I love and actually support — if that person suddenly gets really successful, it’s like a little piece of me dies.” These kinds of uncomfortable, socially forbidden truths are what Borgli was wrestling with …

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2 years, 6 months ago

‘You can always come up with new ways to scare people’: The ‘visceral’ horror of ‘Callisto Protocol’

LA Times

Horrifically graphic body horror. It’s a space Schofield, one of the primary architects of the “Dead Space” franchise, knows well. But there’s a lot of running it where it’s like, “OK, leave that to the finance folks.” “Dead Space” was a defining game for this genre. These days, with “Dead Space” out there and this game out there now, there’s …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Titane review: All you need is love in Ducournau's controversial car-sex movie

Hindustan Times

Titane is about a serial killer who gets pregnant from having sex with a car. Titane movie review: The film won the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Underneath the sensationalist trappings of body horror, Ducournau’s coming-of-age films feature heroines grappling with their evolving desires and changing bodies. Titane has drawn comparisons to body horror master David Cronenberg’s …

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4 years, 3 months ago

SIT Formed to Probe Hathras Horror After Cops Cremate Victim's Body, to Give Report in 7 Days

News 18

Hours after the Uttar Pradesh police cremated the 19-year-old gang-rape and murder victim, allegedly while her family members were locked up in their homes, the state government has formed a three-member SIT to investigate the matter. The team led by the Home Secretary Bhagwan Swaroop along with DIG Chandra Prakash and IPS officer Poonam will submit the first report in …

5 years, 2 months ago

The Body: Emraan Hashmi, Rishi Kapoor, Sobhita Dhulipala's horror thriller to release on 13 December

Firstpost

Emraan Hashmi, Rishi Kapoor, Vedhika, and Sobhita Dhulipala-starrer The Body, which is helmed by Jeethu Joseph, will hit screens on 13 December. Check out the film’s poster The report adds Hashmi will play a widower in the film, whose wife suddenly disappears mysteriously. Sobhita and Emraan will make a reunion with The Body after Netflix’s espionage thriller Bard of Blood, …

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