The Substance
2024
After being pushed out of the spotlight at fifty, fading star Elisabeth Sparkle uses a black-market treatment that creates a younger version of herself, Sue, from her own body. The two must obey a strict switching regimen, but their shared existence soon turns aging, beauty, and physical identity into escalating bodily horror.
Why it fitsMay contain spoilers
A body-replicating treatment drives escalating physical duplication, deterioration, and grotesque transformation, making bodily instability the core horror mechanism.