
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
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.
Liz's first day on the job corresponds with Dagless' friend staying at the hospital as a patient, which results in a portal to Hell opening beneath Dark Place.
Someone, something, or some things have attacked the chef. So why are objects flying about of their own accord, assaulting innocent civilians and disrupting hospital procedure? Is it telekinesis, PMT, or a deadly mixture of the two? It's a deadly mixture of the two.
When a giant eyeball rapes and impregnates a male patient (don't ask how that's possible, because it won't be explained), Dagless comes to love the resulting offspring, a baby eyeball, as a surrogate for Skipper, his deceased half-grasshopper son.
Contaminated water turns the staff of Dark Place into intelligent apes.
A strange mist descends on Dark Place, within which the murderous spirits on Scottish highlanders prey upon the hospital's staff.
Sanchez falls in love with a beautiful female patient who is slowly turning into cosmic broccoli.
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Richard Ayoade | Dean Learner |
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Matt Berry | Todd Rivers |
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Alice Lowe | Madeleine Wool |
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Matthew Holness | Garth Marenghi |
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Kim Noble | Jim |
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Julian Barratt | Padre |
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Stephen Merchant | The Chef |
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Matt Green | Chef's Assistant |
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Graham Linehan | Security Guard |
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Sarah Kants | Larry's Mother |
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Adrian Sturges | Voice on Answerphone |
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Richard Thomson | Highlander |
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Noel Fielding | Monkey Man |
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Lydia Fox | Rick's wife |
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Stuart Silver | Anonymous Hospital Worker |
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Bronwen Davies | Linda |
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Spencer Brown | Patient |
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Tina Tutkova | Nurse |
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Paul King | Techie |
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Kevin Hudson | |
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Lewis Palmer | |
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Jonathan Edwards Young | Clive The Temp |
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Samir Haddad | |
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Lawrence Michelowski | Larry Renwick |
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Nicholas Ivanov |
Director | Richard Ayoade |
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Writer | Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness | |
Producer | Richard Allen-Turner, Richard Grocock, Charlie Hanson, Jon Thoday, Stephen Abrahams | |
Musician | Andrew Hewitt | |
Photography | Martin Hawkins |
Packaging | Keep Case |
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Nr Discs | 1 |
Layers | Single side, Single layer |
Regions | Region 2 |
Owner | Don Hawkins |
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Location | DVD Library |
Watched | |
Quantity | 1 |
Index | 1447 |
Added Date | Nov 23, 2015 17:37:57 |
Modified Date | Jul 16, 2024 09:16:31 |