“I feel like I’m in a David Lynch film,” says Meredith Alloway from her home in New York’s East Village. “Like I’m in ‘Mulholland Drive.’ I’m going to wake up on my couch and it was all a dream.” The filmmaker is back in her apartment after a whirlwind experience at SXSW premiering her new movie “Forbidden Fruits,” one of the festival’s most anticipated. “This is such a tiny indie that could,” Alloway says. “When I had to introduce a movie in front of 1,200 people at the Paramount, I was having an out-of-body experience.” “Forbidden Fruits,” which is director and writer Alloway’s feature-length debut, is a comedy horror film that follows a group of friends — all with fruit first names — who work at a boutique in their local mall. When Cherry, Apple and Fig meet Pumpkin, an employee at a pretzel store, they recruit her to join them at their store — and into their after-hours witchy coven. The film stars Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Chamberlain ...
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