Saccharine

A weight-loss craze built on eating human ashes is the kind of premise that makes you wince before the first scare arrives, and this one puts medical student Hana at its centre — lovesick, self-punishing, and now haunted by the person she has been consuming. Body horror and grief braid tightly together, with hunger standing in for everything harder to name. The tagline asks what's eating you, and means it both ways.

For viewers with a strong stomach and an appetite for horror that works as metaphor: disordered eating, longing and guilt handed a literal ghost. Expect an uncomfortable, intimate register across just under two hours rather than a jump-scare rhythm. Anyone drawn to queasy, character-driven genre films about women and appetite will find plenty to sit with here. Not a casual watch, but a memorable one.