Here’s everything known aboutthe serum fromThe Substanceand how it works.
The first serum is a unique compound that is administered through an activator shot.
While in the younger body, the original comatose body produces a substance dubbed the “Stabilizer.”
The double must take this stabilizer daily.
It’s stressed repeatedly that the user cannot occupy the younger body for more than seven days.
Who Created The Substance’s Serum?
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Elisabeth never meets the creator or the company that produces the serum.
The creator and the company behind it remain a mysterythroughout the entire film, although they seem very well-funded.
The company moves in secrecy, only communicating through phone calls and flash drives.
Elisabeth Sparkle, a fading celebrity, turns to a mysterious drug that promises to restore her youth by creating a younger, more beautiful version of herself. But splitting time between her original and new body leads to horrifying consequences as her alternate self, Sue, begins to unravel her life in a disturbing body-horror descent.
They are straight-forward, blunt, and unyielding.
It’s repeatedly stressed to Elisabeth that she can’t spend more than seven days in the duplicate body.
The comatose state of the original body then amplifies the aging process.
Within months, she has severely withered away.
Literally falling apart without the stabilizer, Sue uses the activator to try and create a new copy.
The fact that the substance is seemingly so well-funded is unsettling alone.
Any number of people could be using the substance, and whoever controls it wants it kept a secret.
