Film
Censor
- Director
- Prano Bailey-Bond
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 84 mins
Enid (Niamh Algar) is a diligent British film censor charged with spoiling our fun by chopping all the excessive gore and grue from the ‘video nasties’ of the 1980s. But during a hard day of protecting the nation’s morals, she comes across a film titled Don’t Go Into the Church that seems to have a connection to the disappearance of her sister many years earlier. Reality, memory and eyeball-gouging horror then start to meld as Enid finds that the only way to solve the mystery is to take a headlong plunge into Video Nastyland.
First-time feature director Prano Bailey-Bond‘s accomplished, hallocinogenic drama offers horror buffs plenty of nods to genre classics, from blood-drenched giallo flicks to the Japanese Ringu cycle as well as the hack’n’slash of the straight-to-VHS era. “Bailey-Bond creates something almost unbearably close and oppressive, like the bottom of a murky fish tank,” remarked The Guardian. “It’s a very elegant and disquieting debut.”
The Everyman’s screening on September 1 includes a live Q&A with director Prano Bailey-Bond.
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