In the Dark Reviews

Writer-director Coralie Fargeat hit the ground running with her 2017 debut feature film "Revenge," which felt as though Meir Zarchi's "I Spit on Your Grave" from 1978 had been filtered through a layer of Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch" from 2011.

Far from suffering a sophomore slump, Fargeat has accelerated with her second feature film, "The Substance," which feels like a Brundlefly telepod fusion accident between Larry Cohen's "The Stuff" from 1985 and Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" from a couple of years ago.

Fargeat was born in 1976, one year later than me, so it's tempting to attribute her filmmakin...