Saccharine is an Australian body-horror film about a lovelorn medical student who joins a weight-loss craze involving eating human ashes, then finds herself haunted by the ghost of the person she consumed. The premise is a horror wrapper around diet culture: thinness obsession is framed as a social force that drives people to grotesque extremes, with fatphobia positioned as the root pressure rather than personal weakness. A central sapphic romance between the lead and her trainer is treated as ordinary and affirming. Those two currents, progressive political framing around body image and normalized queer representation, push the label to Leans Progressive without tipping all the way, since the film avoids casting traditional identities as outright villains.