What The Substance Lacks in Substance It Makes Up in Boobs (Both Old and Newfangled)

The body-horror film The Substance is most definitely lacking in the substance category: some serious plot holes need to be filled in, especially regarding the shared consciousness between Elisabeth (Demi Moore) and her "better self"-- but stylistically and visually the movie excels and even the editing is grotesque and perversely fun-- there's lots of nudity but it's not very sexy, the female figure is deconstructed under both the male gaze and the female gaze until all those concupiscent curves become splintered and fragmented, somehow unwholesome . . . and then things get really weird . . . eight spinal taps out of ten.