Feature Sarah Dobbs 3 Apr 2014 - 07:00
What have Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry been up to in the decade since Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?
It’s been ten years now since author, visionary, and dreamweaver Garth Marenghi’s legendary horror TV show, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, was rescued from a vault in Peru and broadcast to a largely unappreciative audience.
Or, you know, in the reality we actually inhabit, it’s been ten years since a group of comedians donned 80s costumes and pretended to be aging filmmakers commenting on their own ‘lost’ series. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was a perfect send-up of both trashy low-budget horror and science fiction productions and pompous creators, as a bewigged Matthew Holness straight-facedly explained the unique genius of his horror writing alter ego even as his greatest creation, Dr Rick Dagless M.D., mugged away in the background.
It was a ludicrously high concept show,...
What have Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry been up to in the decade since Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?
It’s been ten years now since author, visionary, and dreamweaver Garth Marenghi’s legendary horror TV show, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, was rescued from a vault in Peru and broadcast to a largely unappreciative audience.
Or, you know, in the reality we actually inhabit, it’s been ten years since a group of comedians donned 80s costumes and pretended to be aging filmmakers commenting on their own ‘lost’ series. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was a perfect send-up of both trashy low-budget horror and science fiction productions and pompous creators, as a bewigged Matthew Holness straight-facedly explained the unique genius of his horror writing alter ego even as his greatest creation, Dr Rick Dagless M.D., mugged away in the background.
It was a ludicrously high concept show,...
- 4/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Matthew Holness first rose to notoriety with his character of Garth Marenghi; author, dream-weaver, visionary, plus actor. He’s a perfect creation, all the insufferable genre authors boiled down to one. Holness has returned with another author and another genre, and takes the story in the opposite direction. A Gun For George, available for viewing at Britain’s Film4 website, is a short film featuring a down on his luck author who’s angry at the world for the loss of his brother, and his popularity.
Terry Finch is the author of the (once) popular Reprizalizer series, a two-fisted vigilante, taking to the criminals of suburban England. He’s self-deluded, down on his luck, and angry at the world about it. While you laugh at garth and look forward to someday seeing his head trapped in farm equipment, Matthew makes you feel for Terry. His books are clear Mary Sue fiction,...
Terry Finch is the author of the (once) popular Reprizalizer series, a two-fisted vigilante, taking to the criminals of suburban England. He’s self-deluded, down on his luck, and angry at the world about it. While you laugh at garth and look forward to someday seeing his head trapped in farm equipment, Matthew makes you feel for Terry. His books are clear Mary Sue fiction,...
- 1/18/2013
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
It's not often we get the chance to dwell on short films in these parts, what with so many long ones to fixate on, so it's a rare joy to be able to debut this new trailer showing newbie filmmakers at work in the shorter form. As you know, we're also partial to the odd pun around here so The Joy Of Six ticks multiple boxes. Well, two boxes. Click below to catch a glimpse of Romola Garai and Matthew Holness' directorial debuts, and Peter Mullan, Dame Judi Dench and Luke Treadaway on the other side of the camera. Garai's 21-minute directorial debut Scrubber gives her the chance to step away from the trials and tribulations of Atonement, Glorious 39, King Lear and the like and let someone else (her Crimson Petal And The White co-star Amanda Hale) take the strain as a young mum with a strange obsession.
- 11/8/2012
- EmpireOnline
If you, like us, were left wondering just what Garth Marenghi co-creator Matthew Holness would do to follow Darkplace (and Man To Man With Dean Learner), wonder no more: he’s now plotting to turn his dark vigilante comedy short film A Gun For George into a full-fledged feature called The Reprisalizer. A spoof of both ‘80s cop dramas and the likes of the Death Wish films, The Reprisalizer will follow the twisted acts of Bob Shuter, described as “a normal newspaper kiosk vendor until gangsters electrified his brother’s testicles by car battery.”And, much in the same fashion that Holness portrayed both writer Marenghi and the character he played on the Darkplace series, Dr Rick Dagless, he’ll appear as both Shuter and his creator, writer Terry Finch. Whose books, by the way, promise Brutal Violence Or Your Money Back. And you can take that to the bank.
- 12/7/2011
- EmpireOnline
The Reprisalizer
"Garth Marenghi" creator Matthew Holness will star in, write and direct "The Reprisalizer", a feature based on his short film "A Gun For George".
The story follows a troubled Kent-based crime novelist who becomes the titular ultra-violent vigilante. Shooting will take place sometime next year. [Source: Chortle]
The Annihilator
"Real Steel" and "The Bourne Legacy" screenwriter Dan Gilroy has been hired to adapt Magic Storm Entertainment's comic "The Annihilator".
The story follows a young Chinese man given a second chance as an international superhero who returns home to mete out justice. [Source: Variety]
The Manny
Justin Malen has been hired to rewrite R-rated comedy "The Manny" for Gary Sanchez and Red Wagon at Sony.
The story follows an unemployed (and soon-to-be homeless) recent college grad who, after exhausting all the normal ways of getting a job in the financial world, tries nannying a Wall Street magnate's kid to get one. [Source: Deadline]...
"Garth Marenghi" creator Matthew Holness will star in, write and direct "The Reprisalizer", a feature based on his short film "A Gun For George".
The story follows a troubled Kent-based crime novelist who becomes the titular ultra-violent vigilante. Shooting will take place sometime next year. [Source: Chortle]
The Annihilator
"Real Steel" and "The Bourne Legacy" screenwriter Dan Gilroy has been hired to adapt Magic Storm Entertainment's comic "The Annihilator".
The story follows a young Chinese man given a second chance as an international superhero who returns home to mete out justice. [Source: Variety]
The Manny
Justin Malen has been hired to rewrite R-rated comedy "The Manny" for Gary Sanchez and Red Wagon at Sony.
The story follows an unemployed (and soon-to-be homeless) recent college grad who, after exhausting all the normal ways of getting a job in the financial world, tries nannying a Wall Street magnate's kid to get one. [Source: Deadline]...
- 12/7/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
The cinematic Trojan horse returns, smuggling short film-makers into the big league, even more so now it's a qualifying festival for the Oscars and Baftas. Admittedly, some of this year's entries hardly need a leg-up. Pitch Black Heist, for example, stars Michael Fassbender, while animation Bertie Crisp features the voices of Tamsin Greig and Kathy Burke. Notable first-timers this year include the Jesus And Mary Chain's Douglas Hart (Long Distance Information, starring Peter Mullan) and Matthew "Garth Marenghi" Holness (A Gun For George), but with 180 new live-action and animated films, there are plenty of new names to be made for sure.
Watershed & Arnolfini, Wed to 20 Nov
Soundtrack Film Festival, Cardiff
As the title suggests, music and cinema come together here, and not always in predictable ways. Ok, so Guillemots are playing an improvised score to Fw Murnau's 1926 silent classic Faust but how will Ivory Tower,...
The cinematic Trojan horse returns, smuggling short film-makers into the big league, even more so now it's a qualifying festival for the Oscars and Baftas. Admittedly, some of this year's entries hardly need a leg-up. Pitch Black Heist, for example, stars Michael Fassbender, while animation Bertie Crisp features the voices of Tamsin Greig and Kathy Burke. Notable first-timers this year include the Jesus And Mary Chain's Douglas Hart (Long Distance Information, starring Peter Mullan) and Matthew "Garth Marenghi" Holness (A Gun For George), but with 180 new live-action and animated films, there are plenty of new names to be made for sure.
Watershed & Arnolfini, Wed to 20 Nov
Soundtrack Film Festival, Cardiff
As the title suggests, music and cinema come together here, and not always in predictable ways. Ok, so Guillemots are playing an improvised score to Fw Murnau's 1926 silent classic Faust but how will Ivory Tower,...
- 11/12/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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