Censor

During the height of the 1980s moral panic over "video nasties", Enid (Niamh Algar) works at the film censor enforcing cuts to things before release. She gets to see new releases in their undiluted form before the public.

When a release by an enigmatic director contains material shockingly close to a traumatic incident from her childhood she starts to look into his other work and tries to track him down.

Prano Bailey-Bond has slotted this neatly into the emergent "modern British Psycological Horror" genre that recently spawned things like Saint Maud. It's even got Michael Smiley in it.

It's not quite as accomplished as I was expecting from the buzz at release, with a pretty clear trajectory and heavy handed finale. I suspect a lot of the enthusiasm was nostalgia driven as it gives great 80s vibes. As somebody who doesn't count themselves as a fan of horror even if I find myself greatly enjoying certain varieties of it, this nostalgia doesn't work its magic on me so much.

Nonetheless it was pretty entertaining, worth a look. 7/10