Lola Tung breaks up Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti and Alexandra Shipp‘s coven in the new trailer for IFC and Shudder’s Forbidden Fruits.
Directed by Meredith Alloway from a script she wrote with Lily Houghton, Forbidden Fruits follows a girl who gets a job at a fashionable clothing store and joins in with the three girls who rule the roost over the other employees. But things quickly go wrong.
According to the official description from IFC:
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
Along with Tung, Pedretti, Reinhart and Shipp, the film also stars Gabrielle Union and Emma Chamberlain. Producers include Diablo Cody, Mason Novick, Trent Hubbard and Mary Anne Waterhouse.
People are already comparing the film to ‘The Craft’ and ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’
Viewers have already compared the trailer to The Craft and Bodies Bodies Bodies. The comparisons make sense. The Craft, the ’90s cult classic starring Rachel True, Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney and Neve Campbell, follows high school girls who created a witch coven whose sisterhood is tested after a spell goes wrong. Bodies Bodies Bodies, on the other hand, hit theaters in 2022 and gave fans a story about a group of 20-somethings who hold a hurricane party that becomes a deadly disaster. The film starred Amandla Stenberg, Myha’la, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders, Pete Davidson and Lee Pace.
Like Forbidden Fruits‘ campy aesthetic, both The Craft and Bodies Bodies Bodies rely on camp, queer culture, and edgy sensibilities to entice the audience. Fans, for instance, have already clocked how the trailer evokes the camp aesthetics of ’90s teen thrillers.
When is ‘Forbidden Fruits’ in theaters?
Forbidden Fruits comes to theaters on March 27.