hey what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again
with a brand new movie review and today we'll be discussing a new british horror film by the
name of sensor which actually premiered at sundance earlier this year but will be
available for everyone to check out in theaters come june 11th as well as on vod on june 18th
now i got the chance to check it out early and i'm really excited to share my thoughts with you all
on this new horror film let you know if i thought it was good if it was bad do i recommend you all
check it out we're gonna break it all down here in the spoiler-free review but before we do so make
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and in those comments below for all my horror fans out there let's talk about this film your pros
your cons were you excited for did you get a good scare did you enjoy the story but more importantly
once you've seen this film let's talk about that ending were you satisfied let's talk about it all
in the comments below so when it comes to sensor this is a smaller independent film again it
premiered at sundance i heard some interesting things about it when people were releasing
their comments on twitter but this is one of those products for me where if you all have been part of
this community for a while you know that at least once a month twice as much as much as i possibly
can on the channel i try to bring to the light to the platform more smaller independent whether it
be horror comedy sci-fi tv shows of that matter last month alone we covered you know writers of
justice oxygen a couple other independent projects and when i watch these independent movies i like
to try to stay away from the trailers i don't like to read the synopsis so much i kind of like to
discover something new and hopefully come out on the positives on whatever that new project
is so let's talk about sensors starting off with my positives first and foremost i'm a big horror
fan and being the horror fan that i am i love when horror fans or horror movies or sci-fi
films or films in general when they blur the line between what's real and what's not in this film
without diving too much into the uh was again i think self-discovery and kind of the element of
surprise is kind of a benefit with this type of film but the film does tackle this film sensor
who sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance so we're dealing with a
little bit of you know this this character who is very career focused on what she does she looks at
her job as a sensor in the 1980s in the uk which we'll talk a little bit about here she looks at it
as she's saving lives because these videos that she's editing are very disturbing they are very
violent and sometimes people can take those images and apply it to real life so she takes that and
then she mixes it in with her uh her work because she's watching this video that she's editing and
she thinks that she may or may not have found her sister that went missing 15 20 years ago so really
interesting premise and going more into what i like about this premise i love learning something
new about just like the filmmaking process i know about censorship in the in the us and the uk
and also you know over in china things that nature but not to this extent in regards to
this film takes place in the 80s and during the 80s they had this period of time referred to as
video nasty which are essentially movies that were made you know b-list horror films that
were very violent very disturbing and they would have these companies as we have with our main
character this film edit out the bad stuff right and sometimes they would ban these movies so again
not knowing in particularly how big this was in the 80s because i wasn't around the 80s
but also in the uk how the censorship went down so i really enjoy how this film and especially
in the first two acts it tackles this really deep conversation that growing up as a kid being a big
fan of horror films video gamer i remember when the government this is kind of a side tangent
i remember growing up they didn't want video games like grand theft auto some of the violent games
and the government's always tried to do this i know throughout the decades and they never succeed
essentially but also when it comes to being a hip-hop fan being a horror fan everyone wants
to step in and say that things are too violent because it can maybe influence people in the wrong
way which is a much deeper conversation within itself because this film does have a moment where
not to give too much away it happens very early on the film where there's a particular movie that our
main character was responsible for editing she may or may not have missed a couple things and
something in the real world happens where someone applies what they saw in that film to reality so i
love discovering something new diving into these conversations about the filmmaking process which
is another positives i am a big fan of the film making movies making movies there's a movie within
this movie being made and getting them behind the scenes of the hair and makeup getting behind
the scenes again the editing side of it you know working with the censorship and all that stuff so
i love all the stuff that the film has to offer which again really is what they focus on and my
favorite two acts of the movie are the first half and the second half and we'll talk about the third
a little bit later but i love all those elements that the film had to offer which brings me into
the production of the film we have pinto bailey bond who this is my first time seeing one of
her films i thought she did a pretty solid job number one this film i thought she did
a good job of capturing the error in which she takes place in again this takes place in the 80s
so whether it be the costuming whether it be i love when films look like they could have been a
film made in that era this looks like an 80s type of movie it's grainy it has that kind of look to
it so i love the production of what the film has to offer as well as kind of transitioning into the
acting this is really a one-woman show we have uh naya ogar who i'm a big fan of her work or
neve agar i've seen her in raised by wolves she was recently in uh wrath of man i think she's a
really up a good up-and-coming actress and she does a really good job in this film there isn't
a ton of dialogue in this movie this is it's purposeful that there's not a ton of dialogue
but i thought that she did a good job in what she was given and there's like even little i don't
know if she brought this to the table if this was a direction but there's like little things you
notice like she does this like tick thing where she scratches her finger whenever she's nervous
she does some things with her shoulders so again i love these like little details of the character
which may or may not apply to a certain plot within this film again once you see the film
you know what i'm talking about so i love the mystery of the character i love this kind of
tragic past and what i really like about this character in particularly this kind of dives
into the performance as well as the writing there is a clever way that they kind of apply what she
does for a living against she's a censorship she censors films she edits out the bad things
and relaying that to her personal life where she has something that tragically happens to her at a
young age and she edits out and kind of takes out suppresses those bad things that happen to her so
i kind of love that connective tissue between the character and what's going on in the film so those
are my positives kind of transitioning into my negatives here now i feel like the premise of the
film is so intriguing really interesting again i love filmmaking process learning new things i love
kind of the meta nature of what's going on on film within a film but to me it kind of loses focus
once we enter into the back half of the second half of the film transitioning to the third act
it almost feels like a completely different movie and sometimes that's a good thing but in this case
the ending was very underwhelming i won't go into the specifics but i'll just say
the film kind of has a subplot that involves okay what if someone looks at this video nasty film
and they apply what they saw that film into reality and there's a subplot that happens
they really don't address again because we go into this the third act where she's more trying
to focus on okay i need to find my sister i'm uh convinced this is my sister and and that stuff was
interesting but it just went to a path that i just thought was a bit rushed as well as overwhelming
again i don't want to go into the specifics of the ending but i just wasn't completely satisfied
it wasn't as interesting or as compelling as the first two act set up which kind of again brings me
to this sister subplot i just wish it would have tied more into what happens a little bit earlier
in the film and again i like when films leave it to the audience to to somewhat make up their own
ending i have my thoughts on how the film ends but i wish the film would just would have
ironed out a little bit more details and flesh things out a little bit more so again i can't go
too deep into that third app because i think that's the weakest act of the film but there
are moments in that third act that felt like a completely different movie and the horror
elements of the movie horror is very subjective it's very slow and methodical in its approach
in the character development and establishing a story but i felt like the horror was was rushed
and you get more of those horror vibes towards the third act once our main character meets a certain
character and things kind of go off the rails for me personally and again i don't want to go
dive too deep into the spoilers but once you see the film you'll know what i'm talking about so
those are my pros those are my cons before i give you all my overall thoughts on my score
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has a lot more pose than it does cons again i'm a sucker for learning new things in movies about
this video nasty air i love how they tackle censorship and how they edit out these films
and how they think that they're by editing these things out they're helping people but in reality
they're just you know with our main character she's just kind of helping herself in regards to
editing out the bad things that happened to her so i love all that stuff that the film focuses on but
unfortunately for me when it comes to sticking the landing on the third act it felt rushed it felt
anti-climactic it felt a little bit underdeveloped very interesting way they ended and it does leave
you with kind of thinking about it after the film but i just wish that the film would have lived
up to the first two acts which i think were the first uh were the strongest elements of this film
so with all that being said do i recommend censor i would i'm going to give it a three out of five
again there's a more pros and there are negatives it's an interesting film it's really well directed
has a really good performance but again for me personally the third act just didn't stick to
landing so again the film will be available in theaters june 11th and it will be available on
vod on the 18th so i'll leave it up to you all if you want to see it in theaters definitely give it
a chance or if you want to wait for it to come on vod i definitely recommend you all give it a
shot and when you do let me know what you thought of it your pros your cons let's talk about it in
the comments below as always like share comment subscribe to the channel if you haven't already
hope you all enjoyed this review hope you're staying safe we'll see you in the next video