Shudder's New Overlooked R-Rated Horror With Solid Rotten Tomatoes Score Is Officially Coming To Streaming This Month

Published Jun 9, 2026, 11:40 AM EDT

Forbidden Fruits, another Shudder original, has now set a streaming release date for Friday, June 26. This upcoming streaming bow follows a premiere earlier this year at SXSW on March 16 and a limited theatrical release in North America on March 27.

Directed by Meredith Alloway, the R-rated film blends horror and dark comedy in a story about a witch coven of manipulative mall saleswomen whose carefully controlled world begins to unravel when a new hire named Pumpkin (Lola Tung) infiltrates their ranks, triggering deadly consequences. In addition to Tung, Forbidden Fruits also stars Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Jordan Duarte, and Zach Thompson, among others.

Forbidden Fruits' upcoming streaming release follows a broadly strong reception from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film enjoys a respectable 75% score, with the audience-driven Popcornmeter coming in just under that at 73%.

In ScreenRant's own Forbidden Fruits review, critic Graeme Guttman awards the film a score of seven out of 10. Guttman praises the film's unique tone and Tung's leading performance, as well as Alloway's ability to channel a clear set of film references into something that she makes her own. Guttman writes:

Amid the endlessly quotable dialogue, mall fashion moments, and sheer ridiculousness of the film's bloody climax, Forbidden Fruits is more of a good time than an incisive portrait of its thematic concerns. Nuance has no home here. Instead, this illegitimate child of Mean Girls and The Craft is all blunt force trauma, wearing its influences on its sleeve and letting loose sharp-tongued barbs that are as biting as they are funny. It's a welcome return to the kind of never-quite-good-girl-gone-bad cinema that feels so sorely missing from today.

In its limited theatrical release, Forbidden Fruits grossed only $2.4 million. A bow on Shudder means the film is likely about to reach a much wider audience, which would be a promising sign for Alloway, for which the film serves as a feature directorial debut. Alloway also wrote the script for the movie with Lily Houghton.

It's entirely possible that Forbidden Fruits will help get another project off the ground for Alloway. It's not clear what the writer and director will tackle next, but her debut suggests she has a unique style that she brings to the horror genre, potentially making her a filmmaker who will collaborate with Shudder on future projects. For now, though, Shudder subscribers will evidently have a new film to watch in a few short weeks.

Release Date March 27, 2026

Runtime 103 minutes

Director Meredith Alloway

Writers Lily Houghton, Meredith Alloway

Producers Diablo Cody, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Mason Novick, Trent Hubbard