A dress exudes malev­o­lent ener­gy in the In Fab­ric trailer

Eerie images float through the trail­er Peter Strick­land​‘s lat­est film, unbound from sense or real­i­ty: a crim­son dress lev­i­tat­ing in the air, a wash­ing machine con­vuls­ing itself to obliv­ion, a hyp­not­ic spi­ral draw­ing you in with its swirl. Wel­come to the depart­ment store of your most hal­lu­ci­na­to­ry nightmares.

The new fea­ture-length effort from England’s ris­ing genre mas­ter Strick­land takes place at a hand­some­ly appoint­ed shop­ping cen­ter, where the vague­ly East­ern Euro­pean clerk has an odd way about her. Between her vague­ly hos­tile demeanor, her baroque man­ner of speech (“I would like you to announce the num­bers to your tele­phone,” she says), and her faint­ly orgas­mic sigh of sat­is­fac­tion upon mak­ing a sale, something’s not right.

It’s here that Sheila (Mar­i­anne Jean-Bap­tiste) comes to search for the per­fect out­fit, as she gets back out on the dis­cour­ag­ing, demor­al­iz­ing dat­ing cir­cuit. A red dress with a mag­net­ic pull catch­es her eye, but the cost it exacts will be much high­er than the list­ed price.

The new­ly released trail­er shows lit­tle of the film’s sec­ond half, in which a slop­py lads’ week­end takes a turn for the dire as they, too, get caught in the dress’ dor­mant evil. Either way, curi­ous par­ties can get a full sam­pling of the mes­mer­iz­ing syn­the­siz­er score pul­sat­ing through­out the film as well as the clip below.

With an aes­thet­ic influ­enced equal­ly by ear­ly ​’60s fash­ion cat­a­logues, vin­tage gial­lo cin­e­ma, and the Twi­light Zone, Strickland’s cre­at­ed an inef­fa­bly creepy gem of abstract hor­ror. To fur­ther sate audi­ence appetites, he’s unveiled a poster to go along with the trail­er, sup­port­ing the over­all haunt­ing, haunt­ed vibe.

In Fab­ric comes to cin­e­mas in the UK on 28 June. An Amer­i­can release date has yet to be set.