This film can be described in 2 words: Absolute Cinema

Slower than molasses but a very interesting idea with a nice retro style. Ending doesn’t make the best sense.

Dull, so hard to understand and has confusing ending.

Thrilling, captivating, terrifying - so simple in its premise, but quite complex when it comes to the actual movie and its plot development. Thoughtful movie that you want to rewatch again and again, cause you know you have missed a detail. In my opinion, the best horror movie of the decade yet

Niamh Algar Is simply outstanding in Censor, a great little horror / mystery. A particularly violent and gory film, mostly from the perspective of the movies that Niamh's character watches as part of her film censoring role, although the last third of the movie exhibits violent and gory elements outside of the lead's censor role. It's not too long at 84 minutes and moves at a good pace with some interesting twists and turns to keep you wondering where the film will end up. Highly recommended for horror fans.

Wanted to like this more (love the idea of a horror movie about a horror movie censor) but it is ultimately too muddled, trapped somewhere between a homage and an arthouse deconstruction.

The plot and the character arc of the protagonist does not make sense. 30+ minutes are consumed by dream sequences and flashbacks. In summary, premise was good the execution was terrible.

A really great film for intelligent indie-horror fans. It examines the danger of confusing reality with fiction in horror movies by doing exactly that. The retro aesthetic is very pleasing with deep purples, lush greens, blood reds and washes of cerulean blue making every scene glow. I noticed a parallel thread running through this movie and "Saint Maud" (also released in 2021). On a basic psychological level, both films are about women trying to make amends by saving or protecting others. Where Enid can't seem to remember the cause of her guilt, Maud is trying to repress the cause while people keep reminding her of it. Enid is triggered by amnesia, Maud is triggered by memories. "Saint Maud" deals with these issues using a subtle and sophisticated art-house approach, but "Censor" stays true to it's subject matter and dives straight into slasher territory, which is an excellent choice. The third act is downright comical in its irony, yet still disturbing and tragic, thanks to the convincing desperation portrayed by Niamh Algar. Good stuff.

I liked the premise: uptight government censor during the "video nasties" scare watches the wrong movie and gets tipped into madness just like all the pearl-clutchers think happens. It's just a boring slog of a movie. Everyone sleepwalks through scenes as though drugged, striving for a bleak, haunting ambiance but arriving at DMV tedium. It eventually gets to a conclusion but it's a pretty subdued affair that transitions to a kind of mumbly epilogue. And that's it. Feels like it's intentionally trying to waste your time. Very frustrating.

I'm sorry this was just not good. I really was in the mood for it and wanted to like it. I found several strong recommendations. But no. It wants to be a pyschological thriller. Maybe more skillful hands could have made something out of the premise. But this production seems amatuerish, like a student film or something. It just all comes off as nonsense. I barely stuck through it without turning it off.

This movie has stayed with me since I saw it. It's hard to shake the final scene.

It's good with a creepy vibe BUT did not understand the ending at all, so I read the plot on Wiki and only then realized Enid kidnapped the actress at the end. Not sure why they did not show more because that's not AT ALL what is shown, in fact it shows none of that which supposedly happens so idgi. Overall a good flick though.

Loved the idea but executed very weirdly. Wouldn't care to see this one again, but it held my attention during the movie at least. SPOILER WARNING How tf did she get the "sister" back in the car if she ran away while Nina was just chilling on a rock?

Boring. Nice cinematography, but absolutely dull movie.

3 stars; Ok. I get it. Make a 'slasher' movie about 'slasher' movies. I give some 'originality' points for that. Other than that, I don't have much else to recommend about it. I found it too slow and non-scary, not "bold and viscerally effective".

Judging by this movie and it's ilk the current generation of film makers should stop making movies….right now. All they have is beginnings and premises stolen from other older much better movies and then destroy them. ‘Experimental' is just a way of saying ‘don't know what we're doing but we'll see how it goes….' And it always goes bad folks. Pack up go home, maybe give it twenty years. Try advertising, that's gone to the crapper too but nobody cares.

Bailey-Bond and company put together a clever and strange brew – a decisively modern story told through grainy VHS aesthetics (with echoes of 1980s video nasties), with things to say about violence and the often rotten ethics in horror filmmaking.

Sometimes a certain horror film comes around and hits you like a ton of bricks. The nature of low-budget horror always intrigues me a lot. The kind of creativity that this type of film pushes onto its creator is fascinating, and Censor's Prano Bailey-Bond most definitely showcases pure talent. There's not much fresh necessarily or any type of new filmmaking being invented but the different uses of camera movement and the switching of reality and dreams help set a terrifying tone. I will always watch this film during October because of the bleak mood in the "real life" scenes and the dreamy, sentimental, and freaky scenes during the "other" scenes. Everything comes together perfectly to set up a perfect ending that will leave you with both answers and questions.

VIDEO NASTY It's 1984, you can tell by the chorded phones, but more importantly by the explosion of horror VHS tapes. A banned film loophole, tapes bypassed the cinema system, allowing the production of what was salaciously labelled in Margaret Thatcher's Britain as Video Nasties. These were convenient targets in the rising crime blame game and made for perfect tabloid fodder. A rating system was quickly cobbled in place, and a dedicated team of censors with sharp scissors decided the fate of the new art form. It was an interesting time. As bookish, spectacled and hair-bunned Enid, Niamh Algar is delightfully stoic as a choice cutter who seems unaffected by the steady stream of B-movie drek she has to wade through on a daily basis. Enid debates screen violence with her co-workers in a professional, clinical, detached manner, like she was dead inside. Turns out a part of her may be just that, in the form of her missing sister. A mysterious disappearance from childhood days that is quite the obsession. Even though their parents want to move on, Enid is defiant and desperate to find her younger sibling. Things get interesting. What begins as a moody mystery slowly morphs into psychological thriller as Enid traverses from her boring reality into the surreal world of horror movie making. With not so subtle nods to David Cronenberg's "Videodrome", "Censor" plays with the blurry lines of fact and fiction, steadily ramping up the pitch before climaxing to a bizarre finale. Enid finally lets her hair down, the screen turns red, and things get super crazy. Not for the squeamish, "Censor" becomes the film within the film, deliver some ketchuppy eighties gore, startling video style glitchy edits, a host of creepy performances, and an ending sure to fire up the discussion boards. - hipCRANK

This film reminded me of Mandy - the Nicolas Cage film (a remake, I think it was?). Its got some bright, almost neon like lighting and its partly set in the woods. It also has a strong sense of the uneasiness of morals - where does the line become drawn between fantasy, fiction and reality? of course the video nasties scare/scandal of the 1980s must have been a worrying time. I was just a kid then but I can understand where the fear came from and I don't necessarily think that things are entirely different nowadays - what with the internet and everything, no doubt there's some extreme films or videos available to watch. Anyway, as a film this does well at giving an atmospheric feel, with creepy, low noises played in the background while the main character moves about, making you wonder when the next jump scare may be. It's certainly unsettling...as it should be, I suppose. Sadly, one of the creepy elements is very much based on reality, something that can (and does) happen in real life but I won't elaborate, so as not to provide obvious spoilers. This is a slightly sinister and probably thought provoking watch, with a good performance from Niamh Algar, so yes, I'd recommend it.