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.
Scopo della serie tv, ideata dallo scrittore di bestseller Garth Marenghi negli anni '80 e dal suo editore Dean Learner, è "cambiare il corso evolutivo dell'Uomo su una serie di episodi di mezz'ora". Ambientato nel Darkplace Hospital, "oltre le porte dell'Inferno", in Romford, Essex, Darkplace di Garth Marenghi mostra le avventure del Dr. Rick Dagless, e come egli "combatte le forze delle tenebre e contemporaneamente fa fronte alle pressioni dei propri superiori di giorno in giorno". In questo contesto fittizio, Marenghi ha scritto 63 sceneggiature dalle quali sono stati prodotti 50 episodi tv.
Пародия на телевизионные хоррор-шоу 80-х: дешёвое производство, ужасные диалоги, комическое насилие.
A horror paródia két központi figurája Garth Marenghi író és kiadója, Dean Learner. A történet az 1980-as években játszódik és két hősünk, saját show műsorában kifigurázza a kor öltözködési és zenei stílusát, emellett az akkori horrorkészítők technikai vívmányait is.