After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister’s disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
Censor was one of my most anticipated for Sundance 2021, I heard talk about the film and what it’s about. The premise for Censor is quite unique it involves the video nasties which are an actual group of films that were viewed as controversial for various different reasons in the UK in the early 1980s! The film then puts the main character on a quest that let’s just say get really bizarre as the film goes on. The beginning of Censor starts out pretty ordinary and does a fantastic job of setting up for what’s about to come next, the acting and writing here are fantastic both really add so much to the film and give it this haunting atmosphere as well. Prano Bailey-Bond did such a fantastic job with this film, she really knows how to create a beautiful but haunting scene that shows a lot of information as well. As I said before Censor gets more and more bizarre as it goes on till the point where you are left wondering “what did I just watch?” It’s truly a fantastic film that is completely different from a lot of horror films, Censor is most definitely not going to be for everyone but I do recommend giving it a watch when it releases on June 11th 2021!
10/10 A+
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