2021 · horror · drama
Censor (2021)
Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond1h 24m2021
A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.
Our read: Censor (2021) (2021) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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