Fountain of youth: The Substance and movies' obsession with fictional drugs
Briefly

"For movie lovers, a trip to the pictures is a psychoactive escape from the drab outside world, offering rushing highs and crushing lows through kaleidoscopic lights and bombastic sounds."
"Cinema's phoney pharmaceuticals are cleverly used to reflect real-world fears, particularly those surrounding Big Pharma and the synthetic drug craze, as explored in new horror films like The Substance."
"The Substance features a fading starlet, Elizabeth Sparkle, who uses a fictional drug to create a clone of herself, demonstrating how fiction mirrors societal obsessions with aging and beauty."
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