Saccharine

3/5

Here is a summary of the 2026 film Saccharine along with the YouTube embed code for its trailer:

Saccharine (2026) — Movie Summary

Saccharine, directed by Natalie Erika James and starring Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald, and Madeleine Madden, is a supernatural body horror film that serves as a biting critique of diet culture and society's toxic obsession with women's bodies . The film, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, follows a medical student who descends into a nightmarish obsession with weight loss .
Hana (Midori Francis), a first-year medical student and personal trainer Alanya's (Madeleine Madden) crush, becomes fixated on losing weight after reconnecting with a friend who has drastically slimmed down . She discovers that the friend's expensive diet pill's main ingredient is human ash, leading her to manufacture her own version using a cadaver from her school . As Hana begins losing weight at an alarming rate, she is haunted by ghostly visions of the person whose ashes she is consuming .
The horror escalates as the sinister force grows stronger while Hana's body shrinks, blurring the lines between her desire for control and a terrifying possession . With her best friend Josie (Danielle Macdonald) calling out the underlying issues and her personal trainer becoming alarmed, Hana's pursuit of the ideal body leads to a frenzied and nightmarish climax of greed and desire .