The Substance
Movie • 2024 • Horror
ReportDescribed as an “explosive, feminist take on body horror.” Plot TBA.
This movie contains 25 potentially triggering events.
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Unanswered Triggers
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Abuse
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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onlycallisto
Sue goes out drinking and brings home a man. The next day it is shown that they had a lot of alcohol.
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Animal
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Are there bugs?
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onlycallisto
There are a couple shots of a fly, once on someone's neck and once in a drink.
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Assault
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onlycallisto
Not slapped? But extensively brutalised. This film is very violent against a woman's body.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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onlycallisto
There are extensive beatings in this film.
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Bodily Harm
Are any hands damaged?
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onlycallisto
At the end, a fingernail peels off, resulting in loss of the whole finger.
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Is there body horror?
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onlycallisto
Extensive, think 80s horror like The Fly or The Thing
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Are any teeth damaged?
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onlycallisto
Extended sequence at the end of the film where she's pulling out her teeth
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Does someone become unconscious?
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onlycallisto
Each time the drug is used or a 'switch' happens the character collapses dramatically. There is also one scene in the final third where a character is beaten unconscious.
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Does someone break a bone?
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onlycallisto
There's one long moment where an arthritic knee is forced to move, with bone breaking sounds. Later a finger snaps off.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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onlycallisto
Fingernails peeling off in a grotesque way towards the end of the film
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Is there eye mutilation?
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onlycallisto
There's kind of 'everything mutilation' in this movie but in particular there are some shots of eyes duplicating themselves and bulging
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Is there excessive gore?
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onlycallisto
Tons of 80s style prosthetics, comically large amounts of blood, surgical stuff, wounds, etc. Extremely gory film.
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Death
Does a major character die?
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onlycallisto
The main character dies at the end.
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Fear
Is there a shower scene?
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onlycallisto
There are many times in the film where the characters are shown nude in the shower, usually in various states of distress.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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onlycallisto
After she has 4 martinis cut to her v* at home, no visual only audio.
When the young version wakes up the first time she v*, not sure if visual as I closed my eyes.
At the end of the film the 'monster' sort of vomits up a piece of viscera, the audio is very triggering but the visual is more of an object.
There are a lot lot lot of other possible triggers for you though, huge amount of spitting, gagging, open mouth chewing, gross food stuff etc.
When the young version wakes up the first time she v*, not sure if visual as I closed my eyes.
At the end of the film the 'monster' sort of vomits up a piece of viscera, the audio is very triggering but the visual is more of an object.
There are a lot lot lot of other possible triggers for you though, huge amount of spitting, gagging, open mouth chewing, gross food stuff etc.
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Does someone spit?
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onlycallisto
There's one shot towards the end where someone spits directly at the camera, it's quite gross. There is a lot lot lot of mouth misophonia stuff, open mouth chewing, too.
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Is there audio gore?
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onlycallisto
Tons, constantly. This is a very misphonic movie.
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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onlycallisto
Many times in the film, in grotesque ways. You can generally see it coming, basically anytime she's in the bathroom with her body double. The worst bit is towards the end she's putting a large needle repeatedly into an infected wound.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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onlycallisto
The main character is briefly in hospital after a car crash.
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Mental Health
Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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onlycallisto
There are hallucinations sometimes, it is never clear how real they are.
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Is there misophonia?
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onlycallisto
Constant. This is the whole style of the movie. I don't have misophonia but still had trouble with it. If this is a trigger for you, I guarantee you will not tolerate this film.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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onlycallisto
The whole film is around discomfort in an aging body, and taking extremes to change it, with disastrous consequences.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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onlycallisto
The main character is so dissatisfied with her body that she goes to extremes to become young again, with catastrophic consequences.
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Noxious
Is there screaming?
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onlycallisto
Lots, during severe fighting scenes
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Sex
Is someone sexually objectified?
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onlycallisto
The young version of the character is filmed in a highly sexualised way, to a comical degree
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Are there nude scenes?
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onlycallisto
Lots of nudity in this film, not generally sexual though
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Social
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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onlycallisto
There is a dramatic rolling car crash towards the beginning of the film. It's shot from inside the car. The character is shown uninjured afterwards.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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onlycallisto
There is a dramatic rolling car crash towards the beginning of the film.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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onlycallisto
Tons, constantly.
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Is there gun violence?
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onlycallisto
At the end, there are calls for someone to shoot at a monster, but it doesn't really happen.
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