Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- eerie
- oppressive
- paranoid
- late night horror viewing
- arthouse horror marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film as a bold, elegant, and viscerally effective British horror debut, while noting occasional unevenness and narrative thinness.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Enid's work censoring violent films increasingly entangles with the film material and her own perceptions.
Enid's strict classification work is intertwined with her fixation on Nina's disappearance and her inability to accept the past.
The story is embedded in Britain's 1985 video nasty panic and the fear that violent films corrupt viewers.
Its 1980s film culture, video-era imagery, and unnerving visual shifts externalize Enid's destabilized perspective.
Films like Censor, and why
Videodrome
shared psychological horror, media anxiety, surreal unreality, and fractured identity
Mulholland Drive
shared film-within-film structure, Lynchian dread, grief, and unstable perception
Possum
shared British horror atmosphere, disturbing imagery, and confrontation with repressed trauma
Berberian Sound Studio
shared censorship anxiety, graphic violence, and unsettling horror rooted in media culture
Movie Details
- Director
- Prano Bailey-Bond
- Release Date
- 2021-06-11
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 (501)
Cast
- Niamh Algar
- Michael Smiley
- Nicholas Burns
- Vincent Franklin
- Sophia La Porta
- Adrian Schiller
- Clare Holman
- Andrew Havill
- Felicity Montagu
- Danny Lee Wynter
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- fuboTV, Philo, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel, Monsters and Nightmares Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Censor about?
- A principled British film censor spirals into a bloody maze where forbidden images and unresolved grief begin to resemble reality.
- What is Censor like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Censor as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Censor violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Censor as graphic.
- What did critics think of Censor?
- Critics broadly praised the film as a bold, elegant, and viscerally effective British horror debut, while noting occasional unevenness and narrative thinness.
- Which films are like Censor?
- Films with a similar feel include Videodrome, Mulholland Drive, Possum, and Berberian Sound Studio.
- How long is Censor?
- Censor runs 84 minutes.
- Where can I watch Censor?
- In United States, Censor streams on fuboTV, Philo, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel, Monsters and Nightmares Amazon Channel.
