Rewinding Back To Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor [Video]

1. Whenever a new British horror film comes along, so too do the tediously outdated words,“Best British horror in years!”.

In 2018 it happened with Matthew Holness and his film Possum. Duo Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson received the same treatment the year before that with Ghost Stories, as did David Bruckner with The Ritual. And while these are all adequately-made and entertaining films, the term “Best British horror in years” is an overstatement for all of three of these films to be brutally honest. It is one of the biggest throwaway commendations that gets plastered all over a films marketing campaign, rarely possessing the capability to back up such a bold exclamation.

Of the past decade I can think of only a very small quantity of films that are genuinely worthy of the “Best British horror film” testimony; actually wielding the capacity to be among the greatest of British-made horror films for …