and i can see why because it s a real cineaste s film. but i think it s, i thought it was terrific, and i m a really big fan of guillermo del toro. have you seen this? i haven t seen it, it looks beautiful. yes, it looks beautiful, but don t let that convince you that it s all surface, it isn t. it s got a lot of substance and it has one of the darkest endings of a film in ages. i really was left at the end thinking, wow. wow, they really went for it. much as with amulet you come out the last act and go whoa, well done you didn t bottle that! chuckles. i m going. and dvd streaming. yeah, censor is out on dvd. this is prano bailey bond s feature debut. brilliantly put together. it s a story set during the 19805 video nasties scare. so this is very much you know, i watched this thinking this is a film made for me! and it s about a censor played by niamh algar who starts watching video nasties and seeing in them something more than she expected. and the film is, on the one hand, a
this is prano bailey bond s feature debut. brilliantly put together. it s a story set during the 1980s video nasties scare. so this is very much you know, i watched this thinking this is a film made for me! and it s about a censor played by niamh algar who starts watching video nasties and seeing in them something more than she expected. and the film is, on the one hand, a kind of nostalgic evocation of that particular time when video had just begun, and the video stores were filled with, you know, cannibal holocaust and driller killer and all these films that were illegal but suddenly they were, kind of, available. but also it s about the way in which horror cinema and horror fiction is really a place in which you can find yourself and which is, kind of, weirdly redeeming and i say this as somebody i ve been a horrorfan all my life it s lovely to see a film about horror made by somebody who loves horror, rather than a film made about horror by somebody who thinks, oh, it s al