Midnight Movie Club: Censor

[Matt2112]

I was really, really looking forward to this greatly hyped, low-budget British horror; it has a terrific premise, where a film censor in the age of 80s video nasties seems to let her personal demons manifest themselves via the medium of the films she is tasked with evaluating.

Unfortunately, I was ultimately very disappointed; a kind of obtuse strangeness prevails in place of a genuine sense of the uncanny, and everything the likes of the highly recommended and far superior Saint Maud got right - also a debut feature from a female British director - this seems to mangle cack-handedly to bathetic effect (btw, I noticed Saint Maud writer-director Rose Glass thanked in the credits).

So, I'd suggest watching - or re-watching - something superior of this sort of ilk like the aforementioned Saint Maud, or perhaps Possum instead; films that crawl under your skin and fester there.

Rating: **