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Feb 9, 2021 · Matthew Holness won the Perrier award at 26, made a much-loved series for Channel 4 and then … almost nothing. Now, at 43, he has made his first film, Possum, inspired by Jimmy Savile.
Feb 24, 2021 · Paul King, Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness and Alice Lowe in Edinburgh in 2000. They created Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight, starring Marenghi as writer Neil Hack, whose muse is kidnapped by a ...
Dec 12, 2022 · 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. Brian Logan.
Born in Whitstable, Kent in 1975, Matthew Holness is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. He is best known for his comic creation, the fictional horror novelist Garth Marenghi. He read English at Trinity College, Cambridge and was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights. His contemporaries included Footlights president, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman and his Marenghi ...
Possum (film) Possum. (film) Possum is a 2018 British psychological horror film written and directed by Matthew Holness in his feature film debut, starring Sean Harris and Alun Armstrong. It centres on a disgraced children's puppeteer who returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront trauma he suffered there.
Oct 26, 2018 · Featuring as it did everything from poisonous fogs to alien insemination to cosmic broccoli infestations. Darkplace only lasted one season, but all its principal players – Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade and Alice Lowe, among others – have gone on to bigger things leaving Holness as something of a mystery. There have been three short films ...
Oct 16, 2018 · Matthew Holness is best known as the creator and star of cult TV comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. But his debut feature film as writer and director is a distinctly non-humorous, deeply ...
