Vertigo Releasing Pick Up UK Rights For Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor

After making it’s World Premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Prano Bailey-Bond’s impressive  feature debut Censor has been picked up by Vertigo Releasing. The distributor have been quick to announce they will release the film in UK and Irish cinemas on 2nd July.

Bailey-Bond’s psychological horror garnered critical acclaim after its in the Official Selection at Sundance  (link below to our review), and had its European Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.

The film stars BAFTA nominee & IFTA winner Niamh Algar (Calm with Horses, Raised by Wolves). Along side Nicholas Burns (Ghost Stories, Nathan Barley), Vincent Franklin (Gentleman Jack, Bodyguard), Sophia La Porta (Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral, Been So Long), Adrian Schiller (Victoria, The Last Kingdom) and Michael Smiley (Jawbone, Kill List).

Britain, 1985. When film censor Enid discovers an eerie horror that speaks directly to her sister’s mysterious disappearance, she resolves to unravel the puzzle behind the film and its enigmatic director – a quest that will blur the lines between fiction and reality in terrifying ways. Steeped in glorious 1980s aesthetics, Censor is a bloody love letter to the VHS ‘video nasty’ horror classics of the past.

Related: Sundance 2021 Film Review – Censor (2021)

Bailey-Bond said in response to the acquisition news, “It’s amazing to be partnering with Vertigo Releasing – an established champion of incredible independent cinema who have worked with directors I hugely admire – Jennifer Kent, Taika Waititi, Nicholas Winding Refn, Spike Lee, Babak Anvari… I’m so thrilled they will be bringing our film “home”, to cinemas across the UK“.

Vertigo’s CEO, Rupert Preston, added, “CENSOR is quite simply one of the best UK debuts in years. We could not be more excited about unleashing it on UK audiences this summer and working with Prano on this film.”

Censor will be released in the UK and Ireland by Vertigo Releasing from 2nd July. Magnolia Pictures will release the film in the U.S.

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