‘Forbidden Fruits’ Director Wanted Film to Be a “Razor Blade in a Jolly Rancher”
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Meredith Alloway's campy film, starring Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti and Alexandra Shipp, centers around a witchy cult of mall workers that leans into the at-times dark and cutthroat reality of girl boss sisterhood.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment It takes no more than two minutes for Meredith Alloway’s new dark-comedy Forbidden Fruits to let the audience know just how wild the ride is going to be. In the campy horror film’s first scene, Apple, a red haired (well, red wigged), Lili Reinhart , tosses her steaming hot cup of coffee all over the lap of a pervert parked beside her in the mall’s parking lot, just seconds after his license plate “#1DADDY” is shown on screen. And it only gets wilder from there. Directed and co-written by Alloway, Forbidden Fruits centers on the women of Free Eden, a trendy women’s clothing store in a Dallas mall, that happen to make up a witchy cult. Apple, the Regina George of this mall universe, is flanked by her fellow fruit-named Fig ( Alexandra Shipp ) and Cherry ( Victoria Pedretti ), when newcomer Pumpkin ( Lola Tung ) levels up from food court worker to Free Eden employee. Related Stories TV The Indie Filmmaker Mounting an Emmy Campaign for Lili Reinhart -- And Thinking About His Next Move Along the Way Movies Lili Reinhart Says a Male Director Told Her "Suck in Your Stomach a Little Bit" While Filming Apple and co. induct a clearly-has-a-motive Pumpkin into their after hours cult, and things start unraveling from there, slasher style. The film is based on a play by Lily Houghton, who also co-wrote the script with Alloway. “When I read Lily Houghton’s play, I was coming off of a lot of research on female criminals and serial killers,” Alloway tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Zoom days before the film opened. “Women do this for such different reasons than men. I’m continually upset when another male serial killer thing comes out, which is fine as long as there’s also women that we’re exploring.” Alloway was introduced to Houghton through their mutua...
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