{"id":240001,"date":"2025-10-25T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240001\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:06:10","slug":"garth-marenghi-interviews-mike-flanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240001\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Marenghi interviews Mike Flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Flanagan has worked with a lot of so-called \u201cmasters of horror\u201d over the years, adapting works by such spook-minded writers as Poe (Edgar Allen), Christopher Pike, and the granddaddy of them all, Stephen King. But this week saw the Midnight Mass\u00a0creator\u2014currently hard at work on his miniseries version of King\u2019s\u00a0Carrie<\/a>\u2014finally step into the mental dojo of the true king of literary terror: Author, dreamweaver, visionary, plus actor Garth Marenghi.<\/p>\n

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Marenghi\u2014a.k.a. comedian Matt Holness, who\u2019s been playing the character for 25 years at this point, most notably through his beloved cult comedy series Garth Marenghi\u2019s Darkplace<\/a>\u2014interviewed Flanagan for his new web series\u00a0Garth Marenghi\u2019s Skull-Flusher, which bills itself as a series of conversations betwixt various \u201cterror titans.\u201d And Flanagan (pronounced, according to Marenghi, like \u201cfluh-noggin\u201d) makes for an incredibly game opening gambit for the series. He\u2019s clearly a fan of Darkplace, for one, happily devouring all of Marenghi\u2019s odd non-sequiturs and batshit novel plots with only the occasional break of character. Even more amusing, though, is the writer-director\u2019s ongoing attempts to apply his own horror perspective\u2014which, as fans of his various works know, doesn\u2019t shy away from the metaphorical underpinnings behind various monsters and supernatural evils\u2014to the ravings of a man who once famously declared that subtext is for cowards. (An especially good extended bit sees Flanagan try to convince Marenghi that there\u2019s wider societal concerns to be pulled out of his novels about mankind racing to create a gigantic hook capable of catching \u201ca killer haddock.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Marenghi\/Holness has reportedly launched the web series as a way to promote his upcoming book, This Bursted Earth, which, like the earlier\u00a0Garth Marenghi\u2019s TerrorTome, threatens to bring the character\u2019s glorious incompetence out of the world of fiction and into a reality where you can actually hit someone over the head with it. Honestly, though, we\u2019ll take as much of this as we can get. Holness can live and breathe Marenghi\u2019s deep, wonderfully unearned pomposity basically on instinct at this point, and seeing him abruptly cut off Flanagan\u2019s praise of \u201cMr. Stevie King\u201d in order to ask why he hasn\u2019t adapted a real classic,\u00a0 like the author\u2019s own The Dank, or his book Bitchfinder General (\u201cIt\u2019s about an outbreak of downward erections in rural 17th century England\u201d), is a genuine joy to behold.<\/p>\n

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