‘Forbidden Fruits’ Director Wanted Film to Be a “Razor Blade in a Jolly Rancher”

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

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