Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1232 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-16
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 144 minutes

Synopsis

This spoof series invites you to see a 'long lost' 1980s TV chiller from acclaimed novelist, Garth Marenghi. With hammy acting and a ridiculously shoddy filmmaking technique, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace makes for seriously funny viewing.

From the Back Cover

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was originally filmed in the 1980s and has since earned a cult reputation as one of the most terrifying and radical television programmes ever made. Despite this, none of the episodes have ever been seen before now (although the show enjoyed a brief run in Peru).

Darkplace was scripted and directed by the best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi, known to thousands as the author of such classic chillers as "The Ooze" (can water die?), "Afterbirth" (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) and "Black Fang" (where rats learn to drive). In addition, Marenghi starred as the show's lead character, Dr Rick Dagless--a maverick doctor battling against the evil forces lurking beneath a hospital in Romford.

Even now, Garth warns that the show, in its effort to "radicalise men's minds", may prove "too subversive, too dangerous, too damn scary." The wait for the most famous 'lost' project in horror goes on, but not for much longer...

Customer Reviews

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It's Niche. But I fit into that groove! Have been waiting so long for this dvd!!!

brilliant
Simply put one of the greatest comedies of modern times. Hugely original and will keep you laughin throughout, a must buy.

Garth Marenghi is the horror writer from Hell
Spoof of the horror series from the 70s

It may be an acquired taste for some, but I found this series very very funny.
Funny enough to trace down and buy the DVD just for the extras.