Movie

Censor

2021 · 84 min

A slow, unsettling descent into obsession and grief, blurring memory and violent fantasy with eerie 1980s video nasty atmosphere.

Tagline: You can't edit reality.
Overview: A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, dark and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, obsession, memory, media
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
obsession
memory
media
madness
Places: workplace
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild