Many people haven’t seen Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, but those who have seen it swear by it as one of the most creative comedies of the century. The show only aired six episodes in England in 2004, ...

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is a horror-comedy miniseries that was first released in 2004. According to IMDb, the series is a parody of classic ’80s, horror films, complete with “poor production values ...

It’s difficult to write about comedy. Specifically, it’s difficult to write positively about comedy, the danger being that the writer could easily fall into one of two traps: 1) explaining the joke, ...

The brilliantly silly British sci-fi comedy Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, which featured Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade before most people knew who they were, only ran for six episodes in 2004 but the ...

Watching the show years later, it’s easy to see why: This is one of the all-time great, weird, idiosyncratic comedies of our time. Comedian and author Matthew Holness played Garth Marenghi, a leather ...

Plenty of publications have been using the month of October to celebrate the best in horror, but the A.V. Club’s Erik Adams went another way, celebrating the genre at its absolute worst. Garth ...

We should have seen it coming. They’d managed to keep it under wraps for twenty years: hiding the tapes, suppressing the press coverage. Two long decades of misinformation separated us from a truth ...

As the suspenseful synthesizers fade out, a heavyset, pasty man in a leather jacket and amber-tinted glasses looks directly into the camera and says, “Greetings traveler, I’m Garth Marenghi, horror ...

Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness and Alice Lowe starred in 2004's Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. (Channel 4) Sometime in the 1980s, a TV horror was made that proved “so radical, so risky, so ...

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