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Enid has the unpleasant task of sitting through horrible films, with endless rape scenes, alongside her insufferable colleague Sanderson (amusingly played by Nicholas âNathan Barleyâ Burns), who waves everything through, while insisting on making undergraduate comparisons to the Gloucester-blinding scene in King Lear. Enid remarks to her female colleague Anne (Clare Perkins) that her male co-workers seem pretty relaxed about male violence against women. Her boss, Fraser (Vincent Franklin), is a stuffy bureaucrat who has a questionably friendly relationship with creepy horror producer Doug (a typically sharp, black-comic turn from Michael Smiley), who breezes in for lunch with Fraser and makes odious sexist remarks to Enid.
A nice little nasty.
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Niamh Algar stars as a film censor in 1980s Britain who gets a little too dedicated to her job in director Prano Bailey-Bond s debut feature.
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.