In Fabric
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The elevator (or in this case,
dumb waiter) pitch for In Fabric,
writer/director Peter Strickland’s
fourth feature, ostensibly con-
cerns a cursed dress, which may
remind horror buffs of Robert
Bloch’s short story ‘The Weird Tai-
lor’, adapted for the screen as an
episode of the ‘60s Boris Karloff
hosted show Thriller and an in-
stallment of the 1972 Amicus an-
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thology Asylum. Splitting the film
into two distinct though intercon-
nected stories, Strickland’s movie
recalls the output of Amicus, and
while he continues to channel
the exotic spirit of ‘70s Euro hor-
ror, In Fabric is distinctly British
in its self-deprecating humor. A
succinct elevator pitch might read
‘Dario Argento’s Are You Being
Served?’
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