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French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat's 2024 film The Substance has been one of the most talked-about horror movies of the year, earning raves for its audacious style, unflinching body horror, and go-for-broke lead performances from Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. But while the film marked Fargeat's entry into English-language cinema, working with Hollywood stars and bigger budgets, her French-language debut feature contains many of the elements that made The Substance stand out.

That film is 2017's Revenge, a bloody and brilliantly feminist subversion of the infamous rape revenge horror subgenre. Fargeat both indulges in the violence inherent in the genre and reclaims it through her own sense of over-the-top style. Where The Substance mines horror from the unrealistic beauty standards placed on women, Revenge gives us a female hero fighting back against the structures of wealth and power that try to silence her. People who were wowed by The Substance owe...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Substance!

The Substance is one of the best horror movies of 2024, and here are 10 other films to watch if you like Coralie Fargeat's terrifying thriller. The Substance's body horror is some of the best that has been seen on the big screen in years, with it calling back to some of the body horror greats like David Cronenberg. The Substance's mix of gore, comedy, and social commentary makes it a wholly unique experience that is deserving of praise, with its style making it stand out among the many horror movies that have been released in recent years.

The Substance follows Demi Moore's Elisabeth Sparkle, an aging actress and model who wants nothing more than to be as beautiful as she believes she once was. Elisabeth signs up to test out a new drug called The Substance that promises to create a new her,...

Revenge (Shudder), Only God Forgives (Radius), Mandy (Rlje Entertainment)Graphic: The A.V. Club

The appeal of the revenge thriller is simple: it’s catharsis. A grim power fantasy that taps into the irrational parts of our brains that crave satisfaction after being wronged. Of course, in life, most people will...

Revenge Shudder/ Neon Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Coralie Fargeat Screenwriter: Coralie Fargeat Cast: Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchede, Jean-Louis Tribes Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/27/18 Opens: May 11, 2018 Women in the developed world are as free as men to say whatever they want. But that doesn’t mean it’s wise […]

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If you like a good crazy revenge thriller, you're gonna love the hell out of Revenge. I saw this movie at Sundance and it was a wickedly brutal bloodbath of survival. Today we have a new red-band trailer to share with you that gives us just a little taste of the insanity that this movie has to offer.

The story follows a young woman who is left for dead in the desert but she comes back to unleash hell on the people who violently assaulted her. Here's the synopsis:

Debut director Coralie Fargeat announces her stunning arrival, painting a crimson canvas of hypnotic beauty and bloody retribution in this razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller.Jen (fearlessly embodied by Matilda Lutz, Rings) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house...

While Shudder acquired rights to the buzzed-about movie Revenge back in August, Neon and the AMC-owned streaming service are teaming up for a new agreement that will allow the former to give the movie a North American theatrical release before it streams exclusively on the latter.

Deadline reported the latest rights news for Revenge, which is currently being shown as part of the Midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival. Another entry in the Midnight section, Assassination Nation, was also picked up by Neon (along with Agbo) for theatrical distribution.

Given a 4 out of 5 score by Daily Dead Managing Editor Heather Wixson in her Fantastic Fest review, Revenge has been taking the festival circuit by storm as a must-watch cinematic experience, and we're excited that Daily Dead readers will not only be able to watch it on Shudder (likely sometime this year), but will also now get to see it on the big screen.

A trailer was just released for a crazy and brutal looking revenge thriller called Revenge. The movie is set to screen later this month at Sundance and you can bet your ass that I'm going to watch it! it seriously looks like one hell of a wild and intense ride! It pretty much follows a young woman who is left for dead in the desert, but comes back to unleash hell on the people who violently assaulted her. Here's the synopsis:

Jen joins her married lover, Richard, for a romp at his secluded desert villa before his annual hunting vacation. However, when his leering pals arrive, they¹re a far cry from Richard¹s millionaire-Adonis charms, and they feel entitled to make their own advances on Jen and ignore her rejections. After being violently assaulted and left for dead in the middle of the desert, Jen comes back to life,...