The Breakdown

  • Practical effects still hit like a truck
  • Shunting sequence is pure gore spectacle
  • Incest-tinged degeneracy baked into the cult
  • Satire undercut by wallowing in the rot

Side Effects

eyeballs filing for divorce after the finale

Watch Instead

Skip the shunt. Watch 'The Substance' for modern body horror without the 80s sleaze.