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Saccharine follows Hana, a lovelorn medical student who joins an obscure weight-loss craze built around eating human ashes — and finds herself haunted by the ghost of the person she has been consuming. The film sits at the crossroads of body horror, grief, and desperate loneliness, using its visceral central transgression as a metaphor for guilt and desire. Fans of horror rooted in intimacy, female psychological dread, and the blurring of victim and perpetrator will find rich connections here.
About Saccharine
Saccharine is a 2026 Australian supernatural horror film written and directed by Natalie Erika James. It stars Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald, Madeleine Madden, and Robert Taylor. The film had its world premiere at the Midnight section of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on 22 January. It was released in the United States on 22 May 2026, and is scheduled to release in Australia on 9 July 2026.
From the Wikipedia article Saccharine_(film), available under CC BY-SA.
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Frequently asked
What should I watch after Saccharine?
Raw is the closest match — both centre on a young woman at a new institution whose relationship with consuming flesh spirals into something she can't control. Brand New Cherry Flavor captures a similar hallucinatory, female-driven dread.
What makes Saccharine different from other ghost stories?
The haunting is self-inflicted: Hana literally ingests the source of her torment. That collapses the distance between hunter and haunted, making the horror feel intimate and guilt-laden rather than external.
Are there any TV shows with the same unsettling body-horror tone as Saccharine?
Brand New Cherry Flavor shares its mix of female ambition, physical transgression, and supernatural blowback. Corpse Party: Tortured Souls delivers comparable trapped-with-the-dead dread in a more heightened animated register.