Strickland frequently tests viewers' patience, but his off-putting sensibility is powerful enough to make In Fabric as mesmerizing as its subject: salesmanship as a sinister, inescapable form of hypnosis.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2023

I was mesmerized.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 19, 2020

This is not the film to see if you're after a sleazy good time. It's more like a game of hunt the symbol, with possible interpretations scattered so thickly it is hard to pick just one.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 11, 2020

"In Fabric" is bespoke horror for a discerning and self-selecting clientele.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 2, 2020

For giallo fans in particular, the surreally voyeuristic experience of In Fabric is visually engrossing and unshakably uncomfortable.

| Dec 27, 2019

At its best, In Fabric achieves a density that transcends weirdness to become authentically alien-nightmare stitched into its very tissue.

| Dec 20, 2019

Few people could get away with making haunted couture seem chilling without being kitsch, or turn ridiculously verbose retail-speak into something both sidesplitting and unnerving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2019

If In Fabric is initially hindered by the literalism of Strickland's vision, it still manages to prove irritatingly suspenseful, at times even pleasurably shocking.

| Dec 9, 2019

Peter Strickland is a genre fetishist with a dark, delirious sense of humor, and In Fabric is his most ecstatically demented fantasia to date.

| Dec 7, 2019

Strickland and his cast play it (sort of) straight, aiming for the difficult target of horror-comedy. Comedy wins, but not without some truly gruesome set pieces that take a shrieking delight in the dress wreaking bloody havoc.

| Dec 6, 2019

A little too arch and over-concocted for its own good...

| Dec 6, 2019

Is "In Fabric" amusing, terrifying or instructive? That cackle you hear, with another twist of the dial, is Strickland's maniacal laughter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 5, 2019

Strickland suffuses In Fabric with intense whispers and a celebration of the beautifully twisted.

| Dec 5, 2019

[Peter] Strickland's films, while profoundly cerebral, are always meant to processes playfully and instinctually. Like a breathy Serge Gainsbourg song caught on celluloid, it's evocative as the feel of silk sliding over skin.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2019

The film spaces out several nasty and effective frights. And as its narrative seems to deliberately devolve into a dissociative dream, even the funny material hits with a choke in the throat.

| Dec 5, 2019

In Fabric is a beautiful, unpredictable nightmare for those drawn to giggle in the dark.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2019

In Fabric is long on freaky atmospherics and short on explanations, which is probably all the better-nothing is going to make a "killer dress" seem less dopey.

| Dec 2, 2019

Strickland's film is another fetish object that rues the perils of fetishism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2019

The director brushes on the macabre like an artist choosing the right colors, shapes and textures for a Salvador Dali painting. Tasteful. Sick. Weird. More like an art film gone askew. Not at all like a tacky B-movie.

| Nov 21, 2019

In Fabric feels like [Peter] Strickland at his most free and playful.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2019