Natalie Erika James‘ new film “Saccharine” opens with a shot of a jelly donut getting devoured, and then the footage is spun in reverse, with the bloody-looking goo getting sucked back into the donut. It’s an intentionally disorienting start to James’ new horror film, which is an examination of diet culture.
“My aim with the film was to sit the audience within the subjective experience of someone going through disordered eating and a disordered relationship to food,” says writer-director James. “It really swings from that grotesqueness of feeling like it’s too much but not enough, that endless kind of hunger. I wanted to convey that through really visceral shots
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