IFC Films and Shudder have acquired North American rights to “witchy femme” cult horror Forbidden Fruits, the feature debut of filmmaker Meredith Alloway, Deadline reports today.
Starring Lili Reinhart (Riverdale, Hustlers), Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Victoria Pedretti (You, The Haunting of Hill House), Alexandra Shipp (Barbie) and Emma Chamberlain in her debut performance, Forbidden Fruits is adapted from Lily Houghton's play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die. Houghton co-wrote the script along with Alloway.
Diablo Cody (Jennifer's Body, Lisa Frankenstein) is set to produce alongside Mason Novick, Trent Hubbard, and Mary Anne Waterhouse.
In Forbidden Fruits:
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.
Deadline also reports that IFC Films plan to release Forbidden Fruits, which is currently in production, theatrically in 2026.
Head of AMC Networks’ Films Group Scott Shooman calls Forbidden Fruits a must-see for 2026:
“We are thrilled to join forces with the creative minds behind Forbidden Fruits. Meredith Alloway and Lily Houghton delivered a bewitching script that struck us as a project we felt deeply compelled to onboard early and ensure a theatrical release. With one of the brightest and most hotly anticipated cast lineups, Forbidden Fruits Forbidden Fruits is gearing up to be a must-see in 2026,”
Forbidden Fruits is executive produced by Charlie Traisman and Katherine Romans from Madhouse Films, and Casey Durant and Rachel Douglas from Range.
Look out for more on Forbidden Fruits as we get it.
