The inescapability of Sue’s decisions upon Elisabeth is pretty harrowing, and played SO well by Moore. I love it.

Enough ink has been spilled gushing about The Substance in the last few months, but I’d add one point that I haven’t seen made all that often: it’s a rare horror movie that I actually found *scary.* Or at least, a certain type of scary – the awful, gnawing, empathetic dread of seeing someone progressively trapped by their own decisions, so acute that I found it tough to watch at times.