Storyline
Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled decapitations and eye gougings she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister, recently declared dead in absentia. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.
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Cast
Andrew Havill, Vincent Franklin, Peter Pedrero, Michael Smiley, Richard Glover, Sean Buchanan, Erin Shanagher, Nicholas Burns, Felicity Montagu, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Adrian Schiller, Clare Holman, Guillaume Delaunay, Sharon Taylor, Beau Gadsdon, Matthew Earley, Albie Marber, Niamh Algar, Sophia La Porta, Danny Lee Wynter, Clare Perkins, Amelie Child Villiers, Richard Renton, Bo Bragason, Amelia Craighill, Madeleine Hutchins, Robert Vernon, Lucy Mizen, Joanne Gale, Clare Noy, Louise Hadley, Lisa Ronaghan, Francesca Renée Reid, Chris Dale, Guy Slocombe, Garry Molyneux, Emma Eckton, John Ward, Joe Walker, Alice Eadson, Steven O'Rourke, Sam Goodland, Charlie Langridge, Emile James, Prano Bailey-Bond
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Reviews
90
Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond’s feature debut, Censor, is one of those horror movies that sticks with you well after the credits roll. That’s because it doesn’t follow the typical horror movie formula.
83
Censor is an impressive, visually-stunning, deeply disturbing debut from Bailey-Bond and a showcase for Algar, who gives a truly spectacular performance.
80
With production designer Paulina Rzeszowska and cinematographer Annika Summerson, Bailey-Bond creates something almost unbearably close and oppressive, like the bottom of a murky fish tank. It’s a very elegant and disquieting debut.
80
Debut director Prano Bailey-Bond crafts a stylish, effective horror that is both an homage to genre cinema of that period and a psychological dive into the combined traumas of grief and guilt.
75
Despite a striking production design and the strong performance by lead actress Niamh Algar, the narrative familiarity of the second half and restrained climax let the film down.
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