On her 50th birthday, Elisabeth Sparkle, a once-celebrated but now-faded Hollywood movie star, is abruptly dismissed from her long-running aerobics TV show by the producer, Harvey, due to her age. Distraught, … See more

• Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle
• Margaret Qualley as Sue
• Dennis Quaid as Harvey
• Edward Hamilton Clark as Fred… See more

Coralie Fargeat was director and producer alongside Working Title Films co-producers Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, and Blacksmith, a Paris-based production company created by Fargeat that same year. The Substance began filmi… See more

The film's score was conceived by British producer and composer Raffertie, who was brought in late for the scoring process due to various factors. He was chosen for the "electronic kind of violence and roughness" in his musi… See more