The weight loss craze has gotten out of control. The number of GLP-1 medications you can get to drop the pounds has exploded, and with it come other health risks. Hopefully, nothing quite like what you get in Saccharine, the new body horror from Relic director Natalie Erika James that had people talking (and their stomachs turning) in Sundance’s Midnight section earlier this year.
Starring Midori Francis (Unseen), Danielle Macdonald (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), and Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time), Saccharine follows a lovelorn medical student who becomes terrorized by an angry spirit after succumbing to the weight loss craze of consuming human ashes.
A simple juice cleanse might’ve sufficed, just sayin’.
The film was written and directed by James, who said in a statement: “Saccharine is a love letter – to anyone who has grown up wishing their body was different, to anyone who has felt imprisoned by self-destructive impulses, to my family and the hidden pain we carried, and to myself. Shame can often drive self-destruction, but bringing compassion, acceptance and light to your darkness, is the only way its power dissolves. As Hana learns in the most brutal way, healing and recovery are not places we arrive at, but an ongoing path.”
IFC and Shudder will release Saccharine in theaters on May 22nd.
