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Movies Like The Substance
The Substance takes a fading star’s wish for a younger self to grotesque extremes, wrapping satire about beauty and fame in practical-effects body horror. If that appetite for transformation, ambition with a price and unapologetic excess is what hooked you, start here.
Matched to The Substance (2024), rated 5/5 by the HorroRated team. Our own picks come first, then the closest matches by director, subgenre and mood.
Why it fits
- Our pick if you liked The Substance
- Tech Horror
- Sci-Fi Horror
- Body Horror
Streaming on Tubi
James Foster arrives at the La Domaine luxury resort with his girlfriend Mia and discovers the island's primary offering is more permanent and unsettling than the brochure indicated.
PickThe Ugly Stepsister
2025 · MovieWhy it fits
- Our pick if you liked The Substance
- Satire
- Body Horror
- Dark Comedy
Streaming on Hulu, Shudder, AMC+
Elvira lives in the shadow of her beautiful stepsister in a Norwegian Cinderella retelling where the fairy tale's embedded violence is treated as something real.
PickA Different Man
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- Our pick if you liked The Substance
- Mad Scientist
- Body Horror
- Dark Comedy
Edward finally gets the face he always wanted after a radical procedure erases his facial disfigurement. Then a man with his old condition shows up and effortlessly becomes everything Edward hoped his new face would make him.
PickDeath Becomes Her
1992 · MovieWhy it fits
- Our pick if you liked The Substance
- Satire
- Body Horror
- Dark Comedy
Streaming on Prime Video, Peacock
Two lifelong rivals competing over the same man both drink a potion that promises eternal youth. The side effects are not clearly disclosed.
PickThe Invisible Man
2020 · MovieWhy it fits
- Feminist Horror
- Tech Horror
- Mad Scientist
Streaming on Prime Video
Cecilia Kass escapes her abusive partner Adrian Griffin and tries to rebuild her life. Evidence accumulates that Adrian is still watching.
PickDemon Seed
1977 · MovieWhy it fits
- Feminist Horror
- Tech Horror
- Sci-Fi Horror
Streaming on Tubi
Dr. Alex Harris builds an artificially intelligent supercomputer called Proteus IV and refuses it further access to the outside world. Proteus finds one terminal he forgot to disconnect, inside his estranged wife's own home.
PickDead Ringers (1988)
1988 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Substance in our reviews
- Mad Scientist
- Body Horror
Streaming on Prime Video
Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twin gynecologists who share everything, including their patients without those patients ever knowing which brother they're actually seeing. One woman changes the arrangement permanently.
PickThe Love Witch
2016 · MovieWhy it fits
- Feminist Horror
- Satire
- Dark Comedy
Streaming on Peacock, Tubi
Elaine is a modern-day witch who uses spells and potions to make men fall in love with her. The men keep ending up dead, which isn't exactly what she had in mind.
PickGet Out
2017 · MovieWhy it fits
- Feminist Horror
- Satire
- Body Horror
Streaming on Peacock
Chris meets his white girlfriend's family for the first time at their secluded estate. Everyone is warm, welcoming, and hiding something that goes far beyond ordinary awkwardness.
The Lawnmower Man
1992 · MovieWhy it fits
- Tech Horror
- Mad Scientist
- Sci-Fi Horror
Streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
Dr. Angelo turns a mentally disabled gardener into his test subject for a virtual reality intelligence experiment. Jobe gets smarter than intended, and a lot less interested in staying inside the simulation.