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Watching
in Horror
Cinematographer Annika
Summerson helps re-create
1980s horror-genre visuals
for Censor.
By Iain Marcks
E
xtreme close-ups of shadowy eyes under hard light feature
prominently in a U.K. horror flick about a young woman
who discovers that the old hotel she's inherited sits atop a
gateway to Hell. The movie is called Asunder, and it doesn't
actually exist - rather, it's one of several fictional clips
that appear in Censor. These clips, along with the actual
feature, were shot by Annika Summerson and directed by
Prano Bailey-Bond.
In the 1980s, a number of low-budget horror and exploitation films
were distributed on videocassette in the United Kingdom as a means of circumventing
the British Board of Film Classification's strict obscenity laws
for theatrically distributed films. Public and political fear over the availability
of such films to impressionable children prompted social advocacy
groups and court prosecutors to target individuals and businesses distributing
these movies, which came to be known as " video nasties. "
Parliament passed the Video Recordings Act in 1984, closing the videocassette
loophole with stricter laws on content and subjecting all films
seeking distribution in the U.K. to scrutiny by the BBFC. The law remains
in place to this day, though its definition of obscenity has been relaxed.
Censor focuses its lens on Enid (Niamh Algar), a dedicated BBFC film
censor who harbors a deep well of guilt and psychological trauma after
the mysterious disappearance of her younger sister during their childhood
years.
" I grew up in Sweden, so I knew nothing about the video nasties until
a few years ago, " says Summerson. " Prano knows everything about them,
and we also lived together for four years, so I received quite an education. "
The two filmmakers met in 2003 while studying film and television
production at the London College of Printing - now the London College
of Communication - and formed an instant rapport. However, the
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