Following on from The Duke of Burgundy, Peter Strickland gives us another essay in the sensual and the macabre. Set around a very unique department store (filmed in Croydon’s Allders), various characters try to measure up to a spectacular red dress that they sell. With some wonderfully absurdist dialogue and a cast of characters from the ordinary to the completely bizarre, this is a delight for connoisseurs of the unusual.
2018 | Dir Peter Strickland | 118min | UK
“a slyly hilarious Italian horror homage about a demonic frock and the even more sinister forces that compel us to shop” – Peter Debruge, Variety
Following on from The Duke of Burgundy, Peter Strickland gives us another essay in the sensual and the macabre. Set around a very unique department store (filmed in Croydon’s Allders), various characters try to measure up to a spectacular red dress that they sell. With some wonderfully absurdist dialogue and a cast of characters from the ordinary to the completely bizarre, this is a delight for connoisseurs of the unusual.
2018 | Dir Peter Strickland | 118min | UK
“a slyly hilarious Italian horror homage about a demonic frock and the even more sinister forces that compel us to shop” – Peter Debruge, Variety