- - New 'Forbidden Fruits' trailer teases a witchy mean girls sisterhood: What to know about the upcoming Lili Reinhart and Lola Tung movie

Kaitlin ReillyFebruary 13, 2026 at 10:32 PM

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There’s a new girl group raising hell. The first candy-colored trailer for Forbidden Fruitshas dropped, teasing a gang of retail workers who are giving both the mean girl clique from Heathers and the witchy teens of The Craft a run for their money.

Forbidden Fruits stars Lola Tung as Pumpkin, a mall pretzel stand employee who becomes enamored with the beautiful, stylish trio of employees at the boutique shop Free Eden: Apple (Lili Reinhart), Fig (Alexandra Shipp) and Cherry (Victoria Pedretti). At the intense, magnetic ringleader Apple’s invitation, Pumpkin is drawn into their after-hours practices, which include ceremonies with bedazzled boots and witchcraft.

“Being a witch is being a sister,” Apple tells Pumpkin in the trailer. “And we must protect our sisterhood by any means necessary. Rip out the weeds, throw out the snakes.”

That’s all well and good, of course, until Cherry is seen getting handsy with some guy in the dressing room — and warns Pumpkin not to say anything to Apple. Could this sisterhood be cracking?! The answer is absolutely, given the chaotic clips at the end of the trailer, which reveal someone lying in a pool of blood.

Here’s what to know about the upcoming movie.

What is ‘Forbidden Fruits’ about?

The official description of the movie is:

“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.”

Forbidden Fruits is based on the stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die, written by Lily Houghton, who cowrote the film script with director Meredith Alloway. Diablo Cody, who wrote the cult horror movie Jennifer’s Body and, more recently, the horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein, is producing the film.

The script for Forbidden Fruits was featured on the 2023 Blacklist, the industry’s list of most-liked unproduced screenplays of the year.

Who stars in ‘Forbidden Fruits’? What do we know about their roles?

Tung, known for her work in The Summer I Turned Pretty, stars as Pumpkin, who is initially on the outside of the witchy trio. The hot girl gang is reminiscent of similar girl groups from movies past, such as the trios in 1989’s Heathers, 1999’s Jawbreaker and even 2004’s Mean Girls.

Reinhart, known best for her work as Betty Cooper on Riverdale and recently the Mubi series Hal & Harper, plays the alpha of the group.

“It felt like an homage to early 2000s classic movies that you don’t see anymore,” Reinhart told Teen Vogue in November 2025 of the film. “I also have never played anyone like Apple, and I couldn’t get the idea of embodying her out of my head.”

Anyone But You and Tragedy Girls star Shipp plays Apple’s bestie, Fig, whom Shipp told Teen Vogue was both “smart” and “codependent.” You and The Haunting of Bly Manor alum Pedretti rounds out the group as the anxious Cherry, and told she Teen Vogue she was drawn to the script due to its message about the “complete destruction of yourself in exchange for the illusion of belonging.”

Outside of the Free Eden girls, Forbidden Fruits features Gabrielle Union and influencer Emma Chamberlain, marking her first live-action film role. Chamberlain is seen briefly in the trailer and plays a character known as “Pickle.”

What else should I know about ‘Forbidden Fruits’?

There’s some fun bonus content! If you want to join the Free Eden girl gang, head over to the Free Eden website and apply for a role. (One of the listed jobs you can apply for is simply “hot person.”) You can also text 214-751-8731 to get more info about the movie.

Where can I watch ‘Forbidden Fruits’?

Forbidden Fruits premieres at the 2026 SXSW Film and TV Festival on March 16 and arrives in theaters on March 27. It will also be available on the streaming service Shudder.

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