When director Meredith Alloway made her SXSW debut in 2019 with the short film Deep Tissue, she sat in the Paramount Theatre for the awards ceremony watching her friend collect an award. She thought to herself, “I’ll never be able to do that. This theatre is too big!”
Seven years later, the filmmaker is living out her “wildest dreams” as she returns to the Paramount Theatre with her feature-length debut, Forbidden Fruits.
The movie, starring Lili Reinhart and Lola Tung, follows the employees of a Free Eden store, who lead a secret witch coven in the basement of a mall. Their cult is threatened when a new employee, Pumpkin, challenges their sisterhood, leading to a showdown against their own dark nature…