In Fabric is a 2018 British horror film written and directed by Peter Strickland, and starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, Leo Bill and Gwendoline Christie.

After learning about her ex-husband's new girlfriend and secretly seeing Vince performing oral sex on Gwen, she visits the department store Dentley & Soper's during their sales to buy a dress for a date.

At night, the store clerks are shown cleaning a lifelike mannequin, which appears to menstruate, as the elderly proprietor Mr Lundy observes and masturbates.

With the dress in her car boot, Sheila is killed in an accident en route to spending the night with Zach after being distracted by two mannequins standing on the road.

He has a difficult social life, and possesses the uncanny ability to put people into a trance when he explains the mechanics of a washing machine; he also struggles to have sex with his fiancée Babs.

[1] In November 2017, Hayley Squires, Julian Barratt, Gwendoline Christie, Leo Bill, Steve Oram, Fatma Mohamed, Jaygann Ayeh and Richard Bremmer joined the cast of the film.

[2] Strickland commented that when writing the script he drew inspiration from both the curious nature of second-hand shops and his memories of being taken to department stores as a child, in particular the now-closed Jacksons head branch in Reading, Berkshire.

It also needed to fit a range of body types, so costume designer Jo Thompson made a simple red silk wrap dress.

The website's critics consensus reads, "In Fabric's gauzy giallo allure weaves a surreal spell, blending stylish horror and dark comedy to offer audiences a captivating treat.

[10] Upon its UK release, The Independent called the film "Suspiria set in a department store" and commented that it was Strickland at "his most free and playful".

[13] Writing in The Guardian, Mark Kermode made it his film of the week and praised the "heady mix of intoxicating nostalgia, clothing-related alchemy and horror-inflected twisted comedy".