A new body horror film is causing walkouts in cinemas across the world due to its extreme gore.
Those in attendance of screenings of the new film have been sharing their experience of sitting through the two-hour plus title while audience members around them decided enough was enough.
The film in question is The Substance, which is directed by Coralie Fargeat and was named one of the best titles at this year’s Cannes Film Festival by The Independent, who predicted its thrills would receive “a love it or hate it” response upon release.
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Its enticing plot has lured in cinemagoers who clearly weren’t prepared for how extreme things get; The Independent previously called The Substance “a body horror that goes places even body horror aficionados will be shocked by”.
After seeing the film, a cinemagoer wrote: “My review of The Substance is that people walked out of our screening and as far as I’m concerned we don’t have enough movies where that might happen,” with another stating: “Some people walked out of the screening of The Substance we were at last night. One of the most violent films I’ve ever seen.”
One person added: “I’ve seen thousands of films and it’s very hard to shock me, but this gloriously demented movie was cray-cray on 11. ‘The Substance’ is not for the faint of heart (during my viewing, several people walked out mid film), but is an instant cult classic. You’ve been warned.”
It’s no worse than any Cronenberg flick. Videodrome and The Fly had crazier scenes. I’ve seen it twice and if anything it gets a little over the top… but possibly just not the cup of tea for your average Demi Moore fan?
Well it is a comedy horror, so going all Braindead/Tokyo Gore Police at the end seems appropriate.
I do wonder if it might catch some unaware, as you wouldn’t expect a big name attached to a film that may push the limits for some people. Even if you checked the reviews, they’d tend not to describe the end in detail. However, every article about it is pretty clear that it isn’t some tame meditation on aging, so they can’t say they haven’t been warned.
Yea kinda my thought too… it did go Gore Police at the end which kinda got distracting to me. “Where’s this blood coming from?”
But it’s advertising leveraged more of the anti-aging/beauty standards aspects of the story not… the other part.
Wait, were people bothered by Tokyo Gore Police? I thought it was so ridiculous and over top unbelievable that it was hilarious. I can’t decide if I wanna watch this one or not
May be some but as it is an obscure Japanese film with an unsubtle title, I think most people got exactly what they expected.
And that’s pretty much his the ending of The Substance hit me, it is a horror comedy after all.
If you liked TGP (and other films like Braindead) then I’d say it is a must-see.
I guess I’ll add it to the list. Not sure how my partner will feel about it lol. They liked Terrifier, so we’ll see
If they were OK with Terrifier (and have, presumably, seen Tokyo Gore Police) then I can’t see this being a big issue. I suspect the walkouts were largely from the unwary going in blind and not realising what they were in for.
Gotcha. Thanks for all the info!