Watch the new trailer for Saccharine. Starring Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald & Madeleine Madden. Opens in Theaters May 22. 🎬 movief.one/saccharine
One of the nastier-looking horror entries of the year, ‘SACCHARINE’ hits theaters May 22, 2026.
The film follows a lovelorn medical student who becomes haunted after participating in a grotesque trend, spiraling into a nightmare tied to body image and control.
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Exclusive poster for Natalie Erika James' ‘SACCHARINE’, starring Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald and Madeleine Madden
The film follows Hana, a lovelorn medical student, who becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes. As physical transformation dances with terror, this unflinching horror interrogates body image, compulsion, and the cost of getting what you want fast.
In theaters May 22.
EXCLUSIVE TRAILER - Relic director Natalie Erika James' SACCHARINE is in theaters May 22 from @IndieFilmCom & @Shudder.
Hana is terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.
“Saccharine is a deliciously disgusting exercise in feminist gore for the era of Ozempic. A twist-heavy treat, visually rich and heaped with generously treacly dollops of deluxe-pulp energy.”
thefilmverdict.com/saccharine
More traditionally unsettling than the comedy-tinged satire of ‘The Substance’ or ‘The Beauty’, #Saccharine is a gripping exercise in dread that rivals its best body horror contemporaries for raw genre thrills.
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