Inspired by her own 2015 short Nasty, Prano Bailey-Bond makes feature-length directorial debut.
Niamh Algar - Enid
Michael Smiley - Doug Smart
Nicholas Burns - Sanderson
Vincent Franklin - Fraser
Sophia La Porta - Alice Lee
Adrian Schiller - Frederick North
Summary
During the video nasty crisis, meticulous film censor Enid does everything she can to protect the public from obscene material.
Her sister Nina went missing as a child and presumed dead.
Whilst presiding over latest work submitted by mysterious director Frederick North, she links actress Alice Lee to Nina.
Don't Go in the Church becomes an obsession, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
Compelling
Takes a while to get going, but once it does...
Psychological horror owes a lot to Videodrome, but acting and direction is pulled from the highest of drawers.
It's also very nostalgic, as clips of The Driller Killer, Frozen Scream and Nightmares in a Damaged Brain et al are shown.
Fictitious film Deranged (ironically a real 1974 yarn of same name) is blamed for unnamed man murdering wife and kids.
Unfortunately, interesting subplot of Amnesiac Killer goes nowhere, as dialogue states he never pushed play.
After taking Church's sequel way too far, Enid kills Beast Man and decapitates North.
Unimpressed with outlandish claim, Alice flees.
'Nina' suddenly appears and they drive off to visit parents.
Any chance of a happy ending is soon eliminated, as beautifully shot sequence glitching reveals peeps are absolutely terrified, strongly suggesting that Enid killed sibling.
Well that's my take anyway.
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