This is an exaggerated yet very well done horror film. It is a genre that I know almost nothing about and have very little experience with, but given those caveats, this seemed adsurdly bloody as well.
The bottom line in this movie is that if you are not seen you do not exist and to be seen and female, you have to be youthful. Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), is the aging star who has had a career spent in front of cameras — first as a celebrated actress, and then as a celebrity fitness instructor— abruptly ends when an executive (played with exaggerated offensiveness by Dennis Quaid) decides she’s too old to be worthy of being seen. He gets to decide if anyone wants to look at her, and if he turns the cameras away, who is she?
At least that is how it appears that she feels because when she is offered a Mephistophelian bargain--she takes a substance that will make her young--but only every other week--she jumps at the opportunity, and at first it goes very very well, but this being a horror movie, then it does not, and how very wrong it goes is for you to see. The remarkable thing is that Ms. Sparkle appears not to be missed at all, no one knocks on her door to check in on her, and she appears to have no friends. Her life really was on stage.
The movie has beautiful cinematography and a unique voice--I hated the gore, but I did not hate the movie at all. It has several Oscar nominations, and while Best Movie seems a stretch to me, the other nominations seem at least defendable.
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