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Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond
Produced by Helen Jones
Written by Prano Bailey-Bond and Anthony Fletcher

With: Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Clare Holman, Andrew Havill, Felicity Montagu, Danny Lee Wynter, Clare Perkins, and Guillaume Delaunay

Cinematography: Annika Summerson
Editing: Mark Towns
Music: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch

Runtime: 84 min
Release Date: 11 June 2021
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color

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Prano Bailey-Bond spins a tale set during England's Video Nastys controversy of the 1980s and focuses on a haunted, obsessive screener at the Board of Film Classification (an intense Niamh Algar). It's another stylish British horror debut but this one feels a little too much like a demo for what this director might do with a more fleshed out story. The mystery it sets up fizzles in the end.

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