Cinema has its fair share of iconic cliques, from Mean Girls‘ Plastics to Heathers‘ titular crew. Now, IFC and director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits looks to join their ranks with a killer clique of its own: the Free Eden girls.
Employees at the clothing store Free Eden, Apple (Lili Reinhart), Fig (Alexandra Shipp), and Cherry (Victoria Pedretti) are “mall royalty.” They also run a witchy cult out of the Free Eden basement after hours, spearheaded by Apple.
But this trio’s royalty status may come crashing down when a fourth member named Pumpkin (The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s Lola Tung) joins their ranks. According to the film’s official synopsis, “when new hire Pumpkin challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.”
The trailer offers up tantalizing glances at these bloody fates, including some worrisome blade sharpening. On top of that, it gives us teases of the Free Eden girls’ distinct fashion styles and some great one-liners. One scene in particular even appears to remix The Devil Wears Prada‘s iconic Chanel boots exchange.
In Forbidden Fruits‘ iteration of the scene, Apple asks, “Is someone wearing the —”
“The Mojave body mist?” Pumpkin interrupts. “Yeah. I’m wearing it.”
If The Devil Wears Prada and Mean Girls are the kind of films Forbidden Fruits will be paying homage to, then I’m all in.
Forbidden Fruits will have its world premiere on March 16 at SXSW. It hits theaters March 27.
