Censor
Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond
After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
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- jackmeatJuly 17, 2025My quick rating - 6.2/10. With all the horror and especially gore flicks I watch, it is like this is my job. Here, we have a censor who needs to decide which scenes are too much and provide rating recommendations for films. Aside from all the stories you may hear about directors going to these people and bribing them to get their rating down to "R" as opposed to NC-17, this one is more about a particular clip our censor, Enid (Niamh Algar), views. Immediately when watching, she has memories of a similar life situation where her sister had disappeared, and she becomes obsessed with solving the mystery. As she investigates further into the movie, the lines between reality and fiction slowly dissolve, and her acting is pretty spot on in demonstrating this. The vast majority of the gore in this is more in the videos she rate,s but when the blurred lines do get crossed, the psychological torment she is in, and the violence merge, keeping you wondering what is actually true. Not a jump scare type of flick, just a nicely paced story that is told through the eyes of a woman who is desperately clinging to her own sanity and just wants to find her sister. I had not heard of this one, but was pleasantly surprised by how it ended up.
- cultfilmlikerApril 12, 2026“Thank you for the whiskey. I’ll see myself out.” A fun Channel Zero style film! One of the movie posters makes this film look awful but it’s actually good and unique and not a Black Mirror knockoff like it looks! I’ve definitely seen this before but idk when or what happened and it seemed like good prep for Faces of Death so I figured why not (edit: I remember the sister part vividly as soon as it reminded me and now this feels like an unnecessary rewatch lol) [edit 2: I definitely didn’t finish this bc I would remember this shit!] Last comparison, walking through tunnels while you have a loved one missing à la Absentia always seems like a very bad idea! Loved the direction! The story was alright!
- DigitalDisappointmentJanuary 17, 2025Total drek. Waste of time. Campy brit crap.
- jonathanmochrieFebruary 15, 2026Excellent. If you lived in the era of video nasties, you are gonna appreciate this movie. Catches the mood of the time, so well, especially the pearl clutchers like Mary Whitehouse and the BBFC.
- Natasha NicholsNovember 11, 2025Spoiler ahead: Movie started off strong but the last 20 minutes took a different undesirable turn.
Censor Trivia
Censor was released on June 11, 2021.
Censor was directed by Prano Bailey-Bond.
Censor has a runtime of 84m.
Censor was produced by Helen Sara Jones.
After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
The key characters in Censor are Enid Baines (Niamh Algar), Doug Smart (Michael Smiley), Sanderson (Nicholas Burns).
Censor is rated Not Rated.
Censor is a Horror, Mystery, Thriller film.
Censor has an audience rating of 5.6 out of 10.
Censor has made $315K at the box office.