Forbidden Fruits

The narrative revolves around female group dynamics, performative sisterhood turning toxic, and betrayal in a witch coven, with noticeable sapphic subtext including an on-screen kiss between Apple and Cherry during a confrontation plus queer-coded details like vampire nails; these elements add layers to the exploration of female bonds and control but remain secondary to the horror of internal poisons and revenge.

The film satirizes mall consumer culture and customer scams while critiquing male predatory behavior and entitlement; it presents the female-only coven as a protective but ultimately harmful response to external pressures on women and lightly challenges traditional relationship norms through the group's rules.

Little evidence of significant anti-woke or right-leaning backlash accusing the film of pushing DEI or identity politics; reception among genre viewers stayed mostly positive, with only scattered minor notes on feminist or sapphic aspects and no prominent controversy.

Includes Diablo Cody's moderate feminist creative history and Trent Hubbard's advisory board role with a queer youth mentorship non-profit plus professional ties to queer artists; the director and co-writer emphasize artistic genre storytelling and female character studies without documented patterns of explicit activism or representation-first work.