‘Insane’: Star’s movie ‘making viewers vomit’

Demi Moore’s wildly gruesome new movie The Substance has been sparking mass cinema walkouts for one big reason.

Traumatised moviegoers are walking out of Demi Moore’s latest film because it is so gory.

Many are calling it quits minutes into body horror The Substance because of some of the critically acclaimed film’s gruesome scenes.

One cinemagoer told The Sun: “At least 20 people walked out of my screening in Leicester Square before the end. It was brutal.“

“Most people watched it through their hands. It was the most graphic film I’ve ever seen.”

Ghost star Moore, 61, plays fading celeb Elisabeth Sparkle, who uses a black market drug that creates a younger, better version of herself, played by Margaret Qualley, 29 — but with horrific side effects.

Margaret Qualley and Demi Moore battle it out in The Substance, which has scored a glowing 90% rating on RT. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images.

Another viewer shared her experience on Twitter, revealing that her date refused to let her drive him home after the movie because he didn’t want to vomit in front of her.

She wrote: “My date wouldn’t let me drive him home after The Substance because ‘we haven’t been seeing each other long enough’ for him to throw up in front of me. He literally just walked home in the rain to vomit with dignity. Five star movie.”

Her date later texted her to apologise but praised the film as “great”.

He wrote: “Sorry for the quick goodbye! I barfed around the corner, but great movie!”

She shared the text, calling him “a trooper”.

The film, which features graphic nudity throughout from both of its main stars, builds up until a shocking finale that’s proving to be one of the most divisive final acts of a film in recent memory.

During an interview on The Graham Norton Show, Moore confessed that she knew the film would spark conversation.

She said: “When I read The Substance I thought, wow, this could be really amazing — or it could be a f***ing disaster.

The film dissects society’s obsession with ageing and staying young. Picture: Supplied

Moore’s performance has sparked Oscars conversation. Picture: Supplied

“So, of course, I had to say yes.

“I feel like Ghost was very similar, but I think when we push ourselves out of our comfort zone and it makes us afraid it always makes us a little better. Even if it fails. The reviews for Ghost were disastrous.”

The Substance is proving one of the most divisive films this year.

When it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, it was touted by Indiewire’s critic David Ehrlich as “an epic, audacious, and insanely gross body horror masterpiece”.

Meanwhile, in a conversation with Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh for Interview magazine earlier this month, Moore revealed how the recognition and intense scrutiny she received over her appearance in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttlesent her into a downward spiral.

“What’s interesting is I felt [criticism] more when I hit my 40s. I had done Charlie’s Angels, and there was a lot of conversation around this scene in a bikini, and it was all very heightened, a lot of talk about how I looked,” Moore told Michelle Yeoh for Interview magazine. “And then I found that there didn’t seem to be a place for me. I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong. It’s more like I felt that feeling of, I’m not 20, I’m not 30, but I wasn’t yet what they perceived as a mother.”

Originally published as ‘Insane’: Star’s movie ‘making viewers vomit’