Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp and Emma Chamberlain also star in the horror comedy, out March 27
NEED TO KNOW
- Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti and Alexandra Shipp star in the first full trailer for Forbidden Fruits
- The film, which also marks the film debut of Emma Chamberlain, is out March 27
- Forbidden Fruits is about a “witchy femme cult” run in the basement of a mall store
Lili Reinhart and Lola Tung are getting witchy in the first trailer for Forbidden Fruits.
Marking Galentine's Day on Friday, Feb. 13, IFC Films dropped the first full trailer for the horror comedy, which stars Riverdale alum Reinhart, 29, and The Summer I Turned Pretty star Tung, 23, alongside Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Chamberlain (in her movie debut) and Gabrielle Union.
Reinhart stars as Apple, who works in a shopping mall at a store called Free Eden. She "secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours," a synopsis teases, "with fellow fruits Cherry (Pedretti, 30) and Fig (Shipp, 34)."
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"But when new-hire Pumpkin (Tung) challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate," the summary adds.
Forbidden Fruits marks the directorial debut of Meredith Alloway, who co-wrote the film with Lily Houghton. Among the movie's producers is Jennifer's Body screenwriter Diablo Cody.
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Alloway told Collider that the film is, "sort of a satire," adding, "I hope that there's humor. American Psycho is a big guiding light tonally because I think that everyone in the movie is taking their lives really seriously, and it can be kind of fun to laugh at it, but there are also extremely dark moments that feel very raw and real. You can experience that movie in so many different ways."
"And I think that with Fruits, we sort of took that as like, 'Okay, let's keep it playful,' " the director explained. "Ultimately, this should be a fun cinematic experience, but there are scenes that dig into the brutality of female relationships."
Forbidden Fruits is in theaters March 27.
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