Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance To Close Edinburgh’s Midnight Madness

The relaunched Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has today announced that Coralie Fargeat’s body horror The Substance will be the Closing Night film of the Festival’s brand new Midnight Madness strand.

Fresh from making waves at the Cannes Film Festival, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid in a spine-tingling body horror that doubles as a ruthless satire on female body standards and the toxic beauty myth. It is by turns brilliant, shocking and savagely entertaining.

The UK premiere of The Substance will screen at the festival on 20th August, with further theatrical release details to be announced by MUBI soon.

The festival’s brand new Midnight Madness strand will run throughout the Festival in August. Also recently announced, is a special Midnight Madness preview screening of Chris Nash’s audacious arthouse slasher, In A Violent Nature, on Thursday 11th July at the Cameo Cinema.

The festival  has recently announced that its Opening Night film will be Nora Fingscheidt‘s (System Crasher) adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s best-selling memoir, The Outrun, starring Saoirse Ronan (Ladybird, Brooklyn). Alongside this, EIFF has announced the name of its short film competition as The Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence.

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EIFF Director, Paul Ridd has said: ‘Having experienced the legendary Midnight Madness premiere of Coralie Fargeat’s ferocious debut Revenge at Toronto a few years back, I am truly honoured that our first ever Midnight Madness strand at EIFF will close out with her wildly entertaining second film The Substance. Hard to describe this masterpiece, but if we said that it somehow fuses David Cronenberg, Brian Yuzna and Sunset Boulevard into a completely unique, sensory attack on hypocrisy and sexism, then that would only go half-way to describing the wild thrills that await the willing and the eager. Bring it on.’

The 77th Edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival will take place between 15th and 221st August. The full EIFF programme will launch on Wednesday 10th July, with tickets going on sale on Thursday 11th July at 12 noon.