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Darkplace: Tales From The Hellmouth
"Makes Twin Peaks look like one peak"
Teaser Trailer:
Brief Synopsis:
I love the hilarious spoof 80s Horror/Sci-Fi/Action TV show 'Garth Marengi's Darkplace' but I always wondered what it would be like to view it without any of the mock interviews which make up a quarter, to a third, of the runtime. Then I also thought it would be nice to make a movie-length edit of the remaining material.
Intention:
To cut together all the non-interview material from the 6 episodes into one long narrative. I wanted to make the joins as seemless as possible without removing large parts of the show (As it's all comedy gold) but let's be honest, it's still fairly episodic. Which is why I called this edit Tales From The Hellmouth in a nod to similar anthology horror films
I've presented this as if it was a lost 16mm film version of 'Darkplace'. Maybe Producer Dean Learner cut the TV episodes into a movie to show in one of his "Gentleman's Cinemas", in an effort to squeeze a few more quid out his investment. To further this fun idea, I've added a cinema style introduction as if it was a low-rent 1980s British cinema release. Plus there are trailers, previews, adverts, an intermission and I've even created a little tribute to a certain infamous Peter Cushing Horror movie, which I call "The Darkplace Break".
Other Sources:
Garth Marengi's Darkplace DVD
Man To Man With Dean Learner DVD
Look Around You DVD
The Peter Serafinowicz Show DVD
The Beast Must Die DVD
King Diamond - Let It Be Done
Various Public Domain soundFX and Video Clips
Editing Details:
I wanted to preserve as much of the material as possible, while also trying to make this into one semi-seemless whole. So I've hopefully struck the right balance.
The material has been presented as a vintage Grindhouse movie, but not slavishly. So I've kept obviously televisual things like the superbly cheesy opening titles, monologues and establishing shots.
Cuts and Additions:
General Changes:
Added "Film Damage" throughout
Added crackles and other film soundFX at various points but used sparingly
Added film-grain
Added extra transition SoundFX and other moments
Added various trailers and clips
Removed all but one of the episode titles and Garth introductions
Removed all mock-interview footage
Removed or cropped-out all onscreen titles
Removed all advert-break intros and outros
Removed some but not all, of Dagless' voiceover prologues and epilogues. Also some have been trimmed
Specific Changes:
Added FE.org and TM2YC titlecards
Added vintage "Coming Soon" intro
Added trailer for 'Garth Marengi's Bitch Killer'. I had to painstakingly remove the laughter track and re-format it shot-by-shot in 4:3, using panning & scanning
Added shortened trailer for 'Pising in the Driving Seat'
Added "Coming soon to VHS" titlecard to end of Pising segment
Added vintage "Pearl & Dean" titlecard
Added a Darkplace vintage looking BBFC X-Certificate
Added "Tales From The Hellmouth" subtitle to the original Darkplace titlecard
Added custom "Darkplace Break" blending stills and slowmo shots from Darkplace, with hand animated graphics, soundFX from 'The Beat Must Die', looped music from King Diamond and heavily treated voiceover from myself
Added Intermission intro and outro, plus trailers
Added trailer for "Jenny" toothpaste
Added a warning about the "Smoking Ghost"
Added "The Taste of India" advert
Reworked all 6 closing title sequences into one set to Todd River's "One Track Lover"
Added "Special Preview" titlecard
Added preview of "War of the Wasps" re-formated shot-by-shot in 4:3, using panning & scanning
Added film-burn coda
Format: 960x720 2.3GB MP4