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Topic	THE Snake Ranks Anything Horror Related (Vol. 5) 5th Anniversary RANKINGS
Snake5555555555 10/21/20 1:42:21 PM #238:	53. Garth Marenghis Darkplace (TV show) (17.5 points) Nominated by: Anagram (2/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPZAfylOUY Importance: 3.5 Fear: 4 Snake: 10 I first discovered this wonderful little show last October, and I'm so happy that I did. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a multi-faceted send-up of 1980s medical soaps, B-movies, police procedurals, and horror anthology shows, all with a sheen of consummate unprofessionalism, low-budget EVERYTHING, and an ego maniac author at the center of it all. Darkplace presents itself as a "lost" 1980s horror medical drama that was never aired due it being too extreme for the network. Each episode is hosted "in real life" by Garth Marenghi, author, dream weaver, visionary, plus actor, who opens up each chiller reading excerpts from his books, before launching into a pretentious explanation on what makes the following episode the best piece of media you ever watched. Darkplace is actually the show-within-the-show, but interspersed are interviews from the cast and crew into the delusional meaning and making of each half-hour horror masterstroke. What makes the show so engaging is that everyone is a character, both in the actual drama and in those interviews. I do wonder if first time viewers would've been able to guess this wasn't actually a real lost show back in the 1980s, since everyone does such a fantastic job at giving their talking head interviews that it feels incredibly authentic, along with Darkplace's production values. Darkplace uses real film stock from the 1980s, real clothing, real analog music tracks, it does everything in its power to take you back to the 1980s, and it did it before it was cool. Look, I struggle to give this series its proper justice, and explain what makes its poorly-cut, badly scripted, and misogynistically written characters so god damn hilarious to watch. It's written to be bad, and that's one of the toughest things to pull off correctly, along with a real under-current of darkness found in its interviews and charming cheap effects that can occasionally come across as frightening, like when you were a kid, stayed up too late and watched something you shouldn't have. I just beg you to watch this show and see for yourself what makes this so special, and screw my disorganized, ranting thoughts! --- And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright https://imgur.com/1e1e70S <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:946117954] in THE Snake ... [t:79012032]...</cite> <quote>53. Garth Marenghis Darkplace (TV show) (17.5 points) Nominated by: Anagram (2/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPZAfylOUY Importance: 3.5 Fear: 4 Snake: 10 I first discovered this wonderful little show last October, and I'm so happy that I did. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a multi-faceted send-up of 1980s medical soaps, B-movies, police procedurals, and horror anthology shows, all with a sheen of consummate unprofessionalism, low-budget EVERYTHING, and an ego maniac author at the center of it all. Darkplace presents itself as a "lost" 1980s horror medical drama that was never aired due it being too extreme for the network. Each episode is hosted "in real life" by Garth Marenghi, author, dream weaver, visionary, plus actor, who opens up each chiller reading excerpts from his books, before launching into a pretentious explanation on what makes the following episode the best piece of media you ever watched. Darkplace is actually the show-within-the-show, but interspersed are interviews from the cast and crew into the delusional meaning and making of each half-hour horror masterstroke. What makes the show so engaging is that everyone is a character, both in the actual drama and in those interviews. I do wonder if first time viewers would've been able to guess this wasn't actually a real lost show back in the 1980s, since everyone does such a fantastic job at giving their talking head interviews that it feels incredibly authentic, along with Darkplace's production values. Darkplace uses real film stock from the 1980s, real clothing, real analog music tracks, it does everything in its power to take you back to the 1980s, and it did it before it was cool. Look, I struggle to give this series its proper justice, and explain what makes its poorly-cut, badly scripted, and misogynistically written characters so god damn hilarious to watch. It's written to be bad, and that's one of the toughest things to pull off correctly, along with a real under-current of darkness found in its interviews and charming cheap effects that can occasionally come across as frightening, like when you were a kid, stayed up too late and watched something you shouldn't have. I just beg you to watch this show and see for yourself what makes this so special, and screw my disorganized, ranting thoughts! --- And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright https://imgur.com/1e1e70S</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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