Aug 30, 2026 · 16 min · 11 segments
This week on *Movie Chats*, Ant & Ry review Saccharine (2026), the new body horror film from director Natalie Erika James, starring Midori Francis. Is Saccharine a clever and gruesome exploration of…
For the story, we are following Hannah.
She's a med student.
She has a bit of a strange relationship with food and with her weight.
She wants to lose the weight.
She finds a bit of a strange shortcut.
And we are following her as she's kind of descending into madness, to be honest.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's very body image, body dysmorphia kind of feel towards it.
Yes.
There's actually three films while we're going through it that we've previously reviewed on this channel that I found had similar kind of vibes towards it.
The first one, obviously, it's a body image where the main character wants to change themselves, very substance-like.
Yes, the
substance, 100%, yes.
Yeah, so that's one thing that I kind of noticed.
I really loved, especially during some of the scenes where the stomach's gurgling, Add that kind of ugly
steps just to kind of fire towards it.
The sound editing is this movie is so grueling, right? The squishing and the stomach rumbling and the squelching of the food is like, oh,
yucky.
And I had a bit of a look at just the visuals.
Very much reminded me of Love, Lies, Bleeding.
True.
There was another movie.
Yeah.
I'm not sure if you've seen it.
For the story, we are following Hannah.
She's a med student.
She has a bit of a strange relationship with food and with her weight.
She wants to lose the weight.
She finds a bit of a strange shortcut.
And we are following her as she's kind of descending into madness, to be honest.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's very body image, body dysmorphia kind of feel towards it.
Yes.
There's actually three films while we're going through it that we've previously reviewed on this channel that I found had similar kind of vibes towards it.
The first one, obviously, it's a body image where the main character wants to change themselves, very substance-like.
Yes, the
substance, 100%, yes.
Yeah, so that's one thing that I kind of noticed.
I really loved, especially during some of the scenes where the stomach's gurgling, Add that kind of ugly
steps just to kind of fire towards it.
The sound editing is this movie is so grueling, right? The squishing and the stomach rumbling and the squelching of the food is like, oh,
yucky.
And I had a bit of a look at just the visuals.
Very much reminded me of Love, Lies, Bleeding.
True.
There was another movie.
Yeah.
I'm not sure if you've seen it.
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