This week’s Friday Night Movie is a rib-tickling, er, I mean CHILLING series from across the pond, Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place. The set up is that a famous horror novelist Garth Marenghi, created a television series about a haunted hospital back in the 80’s that only now is getting aired. It’s an enjoyable, self-aware satire with all the trimmings: wooden acting, not-so-special effects, self-important narrator and a slew of humorous continuity errors. There are only a half dozen episodes and they were collected on DVD in 2006 but alas, that disc is in the European format PAL. Watch them now before they get yanked from Youtube.
And if they have already been yanked, as least check out the official Garth Marenghi website: http://www.garthmarenghi.com/
Or read about ALL the details on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Marenghi’s_Darkplace
Watch ’em while they’re there:
Episode One Part One
Episode One Part Two
Episode One Part Three