The body horror nightmare story is sensual, unhinged, grotesque, and will have you howling with laughter. Demi Moore has never been better.
Nonetheless, like a band latching onto a tasty riff and deliriously riding it into the ground, this genre jaw-dropper—premiering at the—pushes everything past the point of moderation and decency until it becomes a riotous discourse on the personal and cultural forces that drive women to madness in search of physical perfection.
Driving home, Elisabeth is distracted by the sight of her face being torn off a billboard and gets into a car accident. At the doctor’s office, a physician’s assistant surreptitiously checks her out and announces that she’d be a “good candidate.” While exiting, she’s confronted by an old classmate who praises her still-vibrant loveliness.
Gazing in the mirror in the nude, Fargeat’s camera lingering over every saggy crease and crevasse in her face, hips, legs and ass, Elisabeth takes the leap and sticks herself with the mystery compound. She promptly hits the tile floor, her pupils doubling and her back splitting open so a new being can emerge from within.
Given that Sue is a pure, idealized form of Elisabeth, it’s predictable that she not only craves the limelight, but is eager to exploit her good looks and sex appeal to seize it. The problem, however, is that at the end of each seven-day period, the duo must flip-flop between being animated and inanimate—a process facilitated by Sue’s construction of a secret room where they can lay undetected during their slumbering week.
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