Steeped in the gory look, grimy feel and transgressive spirit of the so-called "video nasties" from the 1980s, British meta-minded horror movie Censor offers an admirable pastiche, spiked with black humor.
A debut feature for director Prano Bailey-Bond, whose well-traveled short Nasty covered similar territory, Censor stars upcoming actor Niamh Algar (Calm with Horses) as a film censor who notices eerie parallels between a horror movie she's assessing for work and a tragedy from her own past.
The many in-jokes and allusions to vintage shockers should amuse fans with long memories and substantial home entertainment collections.
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