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Censor review – disturbing descent into video nastiness – The Guardian

A woman working as a film censor in the 80s is shocked to discover a horror movie that recreates a traumatic incident from her childhood

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The act of censorship cuts to the heart of this lairy, seedy, insidious pulp-horror melodrama from first-time feature director Prano Bailey-Bond, with images and ideas developed from her short Nasty. (She must have thought about using that title again, but Censor has the right technocratic chill.) The film is partly about the way censorship is a cousin to the more value-free business of editing, making sense of experience by cutting things out and rearranging the remaining parts. Memory is a selective,…

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