Tag: Censor
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TOP 10: Films of 2021
It’s been another tough year across the board, but horror cinema has continued to thrive, showcasing a veritable smorgasbord of incredible films. Here we polled our contributors to come up with our Top 10 of 2021… 10. Come True Anthony Scott Burns’ film is a cracking combination of Carpenter and Craven, a nightmarish journey with…
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31 DAYS OF HORROR #23: Dan Martin on AUDITION (1999)
Spoilers From his effects work in recent genre mega-hits Host, Censor and Possessor, to co-hosting the Arrow Video Podcast, Dan Martin knows his horror. Here he unpacks his first encounter with one of the most shocking films in the genre’s history… It was the year 2000 and I’d been properly bitten by the J-Horror bug.…
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REVIEW: Censor (2021)
dir. Prano Bailey-Bond. There’s a moment early on in Censor – Prano Bailey-Bond’s feature debut which builds on her 2015 short Nasty – where two film examiners discuss the history of eye-gouging. Enid (Niamh Algar) sees it purely as the latest excess of envelope-pushing “video nasties”, a depravity that needs to be quashed. Colleague Sanderson…
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INTERVIEW: Mark Towns, Editor SAINT MAUD; CENSOR
“Editors are literally the invisible man: the audience never know what was scripted and was created in the cutting room” Spoilers for SAINT MAUD Mark Towns knows a thing or two about crafting the perfect scare: after racking up awards for his documentary work, he’s gone on to cut together some of the most celebrated…
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