Overview
"Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" is the brainchild of celebrated horror writer and self-styled "fabulist" Garth Marenghi, author of such genre classics as Afterbirth (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) and Crab! ("One of the three best horror books about crabs I've ever read" - Hard Gore Magazine). Back in the 1980s, he branched out into television production, writing and starring in a series so radical, so scary and so downright crazy that when the bosses of Channel 4 saw what they had on their hands, they ran away screaming, like little girls. Only now, twenty years on and amid the worst programming drought in television history, have the station finally allowed the show on the air. Intercut with new interviews with Marenghi himself and his co-stars Dean Learner and Todd Rivers, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is perhaps the most disturbing vision of hospital life ever broadcast.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | UK |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi, Comedy, Horror/Supernatural |
| Network: | Channel 4 |
| Watched by: | 1 399 990 644 |
| Total running time: | 2 hours 24 minutes |
| Episode duration: | |
| Episodes: | 6 |
."..On top of that, he left the gates open, and now evil is everywhere. I need to take a shower."
Larry's severed head: I think I'm dying.
DOUGLAS: No, not at all. I'll get someone. Sisteraa!.. First of all, I have to stop the bleeding.
And the masterpiece of action at a funeral is just indecently off the charts.
A wonderful trash parody.
He is also a wonderful actor and director . I like that he made inserts with himself where he reads his books, dark and epochal, as befits a terrible classic and a weaver of madness!
I was also pleased with the person responsible for the music, which is based on the fact that Garth Marengi himself whistled for him.
I hope he makes a comeback in the twenty-first century with his new hits! =*