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The Substance Proves Practical Gore Still Pays — Four Times Over
10/3/2026
There's a shot in The Substance where Demi Moore's character wakes up to find herself bald, naked, and hunched into something between a witch and a Gollum. According to prosthetics designer Pierre Olivier Persin, that single reveal took six and a half hours of makeup application…
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