The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s darkly humorous movie about an getting old Hollywood film star, who’s performed unforgettably by Demi Moore, has been submitted for Golden Globes consideration as a musical/comedy, reasonably than a drama, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered.

Forward of the Globes’ Nov. 4 submission deadline, the classification of the MUBI launch was the final remaining query mark amongst top-tier contenders. (Final week, THR shared the classifications for the entire others.) It is because there was debate even inside the movie’s and Moore’s camps about how the movie needs to be entered.

On the one hand, The Substance a really disturbing horror flick, with ranges of blood and gore that might make David Cronenberg blush. Alternatively, although, it’s a biting satire of a enterprise through which youth and wonder are sometimes prioritized above all else.

In the long run, a deciding consideration could properly have been the place Moore will stand the strongest shot at a nomination, or perhaps a win. Had the movie been pushed as a drama, Moore would have been pitted towards — amongst others — well-established veterans corresponding to Maria’s Angelina Jolie, Babygirl’s Nicole Kidman, The Outrun’s Saoirse Ronan and The Room Subsequent Door’s Tilda Swinton.

On the comedy facet, nonetheless, Moore’s strongest competitors will come from a pair relative newcomers, Anora’s Mikey Madison and Emilia Pérez’s Karla Sofía Gascón, in addition to, maybe, Depraved’s Cynthia Erivo, Nightbitch’s Amy Adams and Challengers’ Zendaya.