IN FABRIC Midnight

Three-time AFI FEST alum Peter Strickland returns with his most demented vision to date. Like a perverted cross between PHANTOM THREAD and SUSPIRIA, IN FABRIC centers on an unusual department store run by a hypnotic coven. Set in the world of 1970s fashion, the film follows the lives of various characters as they are pulled into the orbit of a dress that seems possessed by the devil. A psychosexual phantasmagoria results from the garment’s unholy hold on its victims, taking a lonely woman, a young male shopper and a washer repairman down a terrifying path splashed with blood, among other bodily fluids. Strickland’s impeccable craft is on full display here as he transports the audience into a singular cinematic world. – Lane Kneedler