Yahoo News Alice Lowe wants a Garth Marenghi's Dark Places world tour
It's been over ten years since Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness's Garth Marenghi's Dark Places was screened on Channel 4, but Alice Lowe thinks the world is ready for a world tour of the classic cult series.
"I think it would be amazing [to bring it back]," the Prevenge star told Digital Spy. "If it were down to me I'd be like yeah, we're going to do a world tour, rock 'n' roll!
"I think the world is ready for it. But it's not down to me and we're all off busy doing our own projects now so maybe it's a bit silly... It would be like Status Quo being wheeled out, and not needing to age-up to look old!"
The multi-layered parody series, set in a hospital in Romford, lampooned '80s horror in all its low-budget glory, but was only aired for one series. It eventually amassed a cult following, and Ayoade and Holness were commissioned by Channel 4 to write a film adaptation, but it never came to fruition.
Meanwhile, the actress and director is currently starring in Gareth Tunley's directorial debut The Ghoul, which she describes as "an unusual and spooky psychological thriller", comparing it to Christopher Nolan's back-to-front thriller Memento.
"It is a psychological thriller that has mind-bending qualities," Lowe continued. "It's kind of comparable to Memento, because you leave the cinema feeling like watching it all again to pick up on all of the clues you may have missed. But it's a very unusual and spooky rollercoaster ride about a man battling with his own demons."
Lowe stars as a caseworker and love interest to Tom Meeten's disturbed Chris, a detective who goes under cover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a peculiar double murder.
It's also been compared to David Lynch's eerie Lost Highway with its examination of identity crisis, with Lowe adding: "It is a good comparison, but it is a very British film, with a lot of British comedians in it giving great performances.
"When you're dealing with mental health and depression, David Lynch is the master of that."
Following the success of the critically-acclaimed comedy and revenge fantasy Prevenge, Lowe will start filming her second film next year, which she has themed as a "metaphysical rom-com".
"I'm writing my next film, but it's still under wraps," she disclosed. "I'm going to direct and star in it again. It's exciting. I hope we'll be filming next spring.
"It's unrelated to Prevenge, but it's going to have some of the things I put in there. It's going to be funny. I'm calling it a metaphysical rom-com. It's funny, and dark, and silly, and all sorts of strange..."
The Ghoul is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 4.
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