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Matthew Holness

December 2022

  • His dark materials … Matthew Holness as Garth Marenghi.

    Behold the spine-chilling TerrorTome: Garth Marenghi puts the ‘boo’ into book tour

    Matthew Holness’s fictional horror author is on the road reading from his novel – prepare to be terrified at the tills while we dream of his full return to the stage

February 2021

  • Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace … from left, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness (as Garth Marenghi) and Alice Lowe.

    It started on stage
    Garth Marenghi: how the Edinburgh award winner found his Darkplace

  • A true believer in the power of art ... Lyndsey Marshal as Faith in Festival.

    The stage on screen
    All the fret of the fringe: Annie Griffin’s cringe-filled trip to the Edinburgh festival

October 2020

  • ‘A moreish confection’ ... Emma Roberts as Chanel Oberlin in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens.

    From Scream Queens to Spaced's zombie battle: our favourite TV spine-chillers

    Real-life mysteries, slasher movie satire and the original Shaun of the Dead ... Guardian writers pick the best terrifying – and occasionally hilarious – TV to watch this Halloween

April 2020

  • Sombre … the 1971 adaptation of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain.

    Lockdown watch
    Lockdown watch: Garth Marenghi creator Matthew Holness on appropriate horror – and its antidote

    Continuing our series in which artists suggest self-isolation cinema, the man behind Darkplace on why pandemic-related movies require music documentary offset

October 2018

  • Possum - film still - Sean Harris as Philip

    Possum review – grisly shivers and a bag full of nastiness

  • ‘Our moral guardians were actually the worst of the lot’ … Matthew Holness

    From Garth Marenghi to big-screen horror – what the ‘lost boy’ of comedy did next

October 2016

  • John Carpenter.

    From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror?

    It’s not just fans who get the chills – even horror’s finest find themselves frightened sometimes. From cows to cannibals, here are their primal fears

July 2006

  • Garth Marenghi's Darkplace bought by US network

    8am: Channel 4 spoof horror series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is to follow in the footsteps of Doctor Who after it was bought by a US cable channel. By John Plunkett.

January 2004

  • Lawson on TV

    The making of a true original.

September 2003

  • Marenghi spoof to spook C4 viewers

    8.30am: Perrier award-winning comedy act Garth Marenghi is to make his TV debut on Channel 4 next year in a spoof cult TV horror show. By Jason Deans.

November 2001

  • Garth Marenghi's Netherhead

    Soho Theatre, London
    Rating: ****

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