The Substance (2024)

I didn't think we could get more polarizing this year after the productive indie horror releases this summer (I SAW THE TV GLOW, LONGLEGS), but it seems like there are always creatives willing to go the extra mile. In what is sure to be the most shocking and diverse horror film released this year, The Substance delivers a greatly abashed look at female beauty standards, Hollywood egos, and the lengths that people will go to get stardom, all to such a twisted extremity that it is practically guaranteed to leave audiences speechless by the end of it.