This is the first part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focuses on Prano Bailey-Bond’s 2021 slasher movie "Censor", as an introduction to censorship, generally.

Future episodes will focus on Mike Nichols’s "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), Brian DePalma’s "Greetings" (1968), Gordon Flemyng’s "The Split" (1968), Steven Spielberg’s "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984), Garry Marshall’s "The Flamingo Kid" (1984), John McNaughton’s "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" (1986), and Philip Kaufmans’s "Henry & June" (1990).

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Referenced media:

• "Time Bandits" (Terry Gilliam, 1981)
• "Saturday Night Live" (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)
• "The Last House on the Left" (Wes Craven, 1972)
• "I Spit on Your Grave" (Meir Zarchi, 1978)
• "Friday the 13th" series (Sean S. Cunningham et al., 1980-now)
• "The Blair Witch Project" (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999)
• "Irréversible" (Gaspar Noé, 2002)
• "Spiral" (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2021)
• "A Quiet Place Part II" (John Krasinski, 2020)
• "The Forever Purge" (Everardo Valerio Gout, 2021)
• "Old" (M. Night Shyamalan, 2021)
• "Saw" series (James Wan et al. 2004-now)
• "Roundhay Garden Scene" (Louis Le Prince, 1888)
• "The Kiss" (William Heise, 1896)