Urban Gothic (2000)
Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel. Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.
Seasons & Episode
As a `touch the car' endurance test goes into a fourth night, the will to win for the remaining four contestants clouds their moral standing.
A government department has been secretly working on a project to search the human genome for Creation itself. But it has all gone terribly wrong, as a team of young scientists soon discovers.
A young girl has a crush on a Goth rebel in her school who is also into necrophilia. She kills herself, then comes back from the dead in an attempt to attract him to her.
When a serial killer is put in police cells for the night, the duty team discovers he is a shape-shifter - someone who takes the form of any human he feeds on. Before long, the cops have to figure out which of them is a wolf in police uniform.
A bright young psychiatrist sets out to cure a young woman suffering from a compulsive disorder syndrome. But after he has persuaded her that her rituals are meaningless and do not protect her from evil, he realises to his horror that she may have been right all along.
A story within a story as this episode of `Urban Gothic' is interrupted by a strange pirate broadcast warning of disturbances on the street - but is it all an elaborate hoax?
A sinister guidance counsellor tests teenagers to see if they could become serial killers - but are these tests reliable?.
Two-part story of an agent investigating the discovery of a teenager frozen in a genetic laboratory. Along the way, she unearths a secret society that has seriously lost its way.
Jude continues his quest against 'the heart' and must face his lost love and his arch nemesis.
