Two meticulously crafted new horror pictures, from Peter Strickland and Jessica Hausner, may put you off the color red for a while.
It lies within the power of certain scary movies to blur the line where horror ends and hilarity begins. Should you gasp or giggle, laugh or scream? These reactions have never been mutually exclusive, and they can even be said to go hand in hand: A well-timed shock can leave you cowering and then chuckling in your seat, as frissons of terror subside into waves of pleasure and relief.
“In Fabric” neither achieves nor aims for a similar level of emotional depth. It’s invested entirely in the creepy-comic possibilities of its bizarre B-movie premise, and that’s more than enough. In a small town sometime during the 1990s, a divorced bank teller named Sheila scans the personal ads while trying to put up with her teenage son, Vince , and his impudent girlfriend, Gwen , who misses no opportunity to make Sheila feel like an intruder in her own home.
The movie loses some steam once the perspective shifts from Sheila to a washing-machine repairman, Reg and his fiancée, Babs , whose own encounters with the dress lead to further mayhem. But “In Fabric” adds up to more than the sum of its violently outré flourishes. If the Dentley & Soper’s shenanigans amount to a fairly blatant anti-consumerist subtext, then a hilarious recurring bit with two human-resources micro-managers suggests a full-blown satire of working-class discontent.
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