Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentPrano Bailey-Bond’s psychological horror “Censor,” which opens Sundance’s Midnight section Friday, is a twisted, bloody love letter to the low-budget horror films of the 1980s.
Variety spoke to the young British helmer, who was recently named as one of Variety’s “10 Directors to Watch.”In “Censor,” a young woman, Enid, is seen at work as a film censor in Britain in the 1980s, a time when the growing popularity of VHS players had led to a boom in cheaply made horror films, which soon acquired the nickname “video nasties” in the tabloid press.
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