Don’t you just hate it when, after going thrifting with your pals, you discover that the perfect dress you just bought is haunted and threatens you and your family? It’s an experience one often encounters when getting clothes from your local Goodwill, up there with finding sex toys on the shelves, and it’s caused many a bargain-hungry person with a sense of style to suffer a bloody fate. All kidding aside, we’re pumped that, after months of radio silence, A24 finally dropped the trailer for In Fabric, the new film from director Peter Strickland, one of our favorite filmmakers currently working in the genre-adjacent sphere. We were lucky enough to see it at TIFF last year, and it is a beautiful and very funny little film, and it screened last month at IFFBoston as well. We’re so excited for everybody to check this one out.
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Here’s a synopsis, which gives you a solid summary of about the first 30 minutes before the film descends into madness and becomes totally impossible to summarize:
“A lonely woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), recently separated from her husband, visits a bewitching London department store in search of a dress that will transform her life. She’s fitted with a perfectly flattering, artery-red gown—which, in time, will come to unleash a malevolent curse and unstoppable evil, threatening everyone who comes into its path.
From acclaimed horror director Peter Strickland (the singular auteur behind the sumptuous sadomasochistic romance ‘The Duke of Burgundy’ and auditory giallo-homage ‘Berberian Sound Studio’) comes a truly nightmarish film, at turns frightening, seductive, and darkly humorous. Channeling voyeuristic fantasies of high fashion and bloodshed, ‘In Fabric’ is Strickland’s most twisted and brilliantly original vision yet.”
In Fabric doesn’t have a release date just yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as it does.