If you need an excuse to never open your closet again, In Fabric is the film for you. Its trailer, released by A24, promises a film that leans into the horror aesthetics of the past to create a beautifully dreadful film.

In Fabric takes place at a department store during the winter. It tells the story of a dress and how it ruins the lives of each of its owners. The trailer only seems to focus on one owner, Sheila (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), but the film will also look at the story of another woman. I’m curious to see how the film handles the transitions between stories, as well as the lore behind the dress.

This trailer is perhaps one of the most unusual and gorgeous trailers I’ve seen recently as it emulates horror trailers of the past with its synth soundtrack, 1960s font, and color palette (which has obvious Argento influences). No matter what the film’s story, it will at least deliver something beautiful to look at.

This is the film’s official synopsis:

A lonely woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), recently separated from her husband, visits a bewitching London department store in search of a dress that will transform her life. She’s fitted with a perfectly flattering, artery-red gown—which, in time, will come to unleash a malevolent curse and unstoppable evil, threatening everyone who comes into its path.

From acclaimed horror director Peter Strickland (the singular auteur behind the sumptuous sadomasochistic romance The Duke of Burgundy and auditory gaillo-homage Berberian Sound Studio) comes a truly nightmarish film, at turns frightening, seductive, and darkly humorous. Channeling voyeuristic fantasies of high fashion and bloodshed, In Fabric is Strickland’s most twisted and brilliantly original vision yet.

Senior contributor Grant DeArmitt caught In Fabric at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and said this of the film’s villain: “Let me tell you this, I can’t remember the last time I was truly as afraid of an inanimate object as I was of the dress in In Fabric. Using only practical effects, the filmmakers make the dress a kind of ever-present specter, slowly dragging itself across a room when characters aren’t looking or hovering creepily above the characters as they sleep. It is as gothic as it is ghastly and weirdly beautiful. I’d take that over a forgettable CGI monster any day.”

The trailer only offers glimpses at the monstrous dress, but these brief flashes promise an inanimate object that will make you afraid of opening your closet. It may just be your unraveling. In Fabric also stars Fatma Mohamed (The Duke of Burgundy), Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake), Leo Bill (28 Days Later), and Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones).

In Fabric doesn’t have a set release date, but we’ll make sure to keep you updated! What do you think of the trailer? Have you been able to see In Fabric yet? Let us know your thoughts on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and in the Horror Fiends of Nightmare on Film Street Facebook group!