_In Fabric_ was like a shopping trip with my mother when I was young: It demanded more patience than I had and I came away with surprisingly little.

F this shit. The stupid attempt at recreating bad 70s film style with awful colors, jarring synthesized score and poor cinematography. etc got real aggravating real quick. Lasted 14:29 and that’s only because I was keeping busy with Trakt.

All I really want to say about this movie is that the store clerk can sell me literally anything. I would buy whatever from her, no matter how cursed it is.

if it was filmed in the 80s it would be fun to watch as a campy old horror but as a 2018 film its just bad

Peter Strickland's 4th film is probably his most eccentric yet. A horror-comedy that involves sales season at a department store set in late 70s / early 80s England. It has a huge whiff of homage to giallo type Euro films and also has it's own identity in the form of sharply dry comedy dissecting consumerism and the obsession with shopping / clothes. As with the majority of Strickland's films there is this other worldly feel to it, and there are no recognisable brands / materialistic objects that make us comfortable in a familiarity type way. Instead there are mysterious characters performing a variety of twisted acts on themselves and on mannequins. There are women with wigs, a very weird store owner, disappearing store assistants and untimely demises. How much of this is to be analysed and how much is Strickland's indulgence remains a bit of a mystery. But the journey was a great experience - the way it is shot (especially the main protagonist - a red dress) is beautiful, and the way it sounded (creaks, voices, pens writing,scratching, pipes moaning, elevators whining, washing machines spinning) was as eerie as it was awesome. The two chapter style didn't really fit - perhaps these things tend to be better with 1 or 3. I can envisage this film being frustrating for film-goers who prefer a more linear plot. There are lots of ambiguous characters and dialogues. But it's definitely worth a watch just for how different Strickland films are to most out there.