Prano Bailey-Bond’s feature-length directorial debut is a meta chiller with superb mid-Eighties details, though the tone is a little amiss

'Censor' rewinds back to 1980s paranoia over horror films, and uses it as the backdrop for fractured splatterfest fairy tale. Our review.

Prano Bailey-Bond’s debut is an impressive mix of psychological wig-out and OTT body horror

★★★★★ David Cronenberg once said: “Censors tend to do what psychotics only do: they confuse reality with illusion.” Censor takes Dave Deprave’s theory for a...

This horror debut about the moral panic of the 1980s “video nasty” scandal produces some corrosively funny dialogue, but few shocks. 

Niamh Algar plays a 1980s film censor in the video nasty era who begins to unspool after a disturbing screening. Read the Empire review.

Censor unfortunately pulls back from its social interrogation just when it’s working up a head of steam.

Loved Saint Maud? Niamh Algar has a one-of-a-kind presence in this debut from director Prano Bailey-Bond

In her daring feature debut, “Censor,” writer/director Prano Bailey-Bond crafts a multilayered and meta piece of filmmaking that uses cheapie exploitation films, or “video nasties” as they were dubbed in early 1980s in Britain, as a vehicle to explore the ways in which humans process trauma, violence, memory and collective moral panic. Anchored by a […]

"Censor" is a horror satire about one of those intrepid, iron-stomached bureaucrats of the British Board of Film Classification, a woman who brings a zeal "to protect people" to her job in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. It's the mid-80s, and the Fleet Street press and the public are in an uproar over the invasion of "video…

The horror thriller Censor pays tribute to the era of video nasties, but has nothing new to add to the conversation.