Original title
Urban Gothic
Released
5/17/2000
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
Columbia TriStar Television, Blackjack Productions, Golden Square Pictures
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
22
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.
After stealing super halluciagenic Angels Blood from Russia, disaffected exes Nik and Leo take refuge in an abandoned warehouse, where they stumble upon a corpse. The duo, along with Nik's friend Milton, decide to bring the corpse back to life, but they need 'pure blood' which just so happens to be Leo's new girlfriend, Kate. The group soon discover that some things are simply not supposed to be brought back...
A documentary crew follow a vampire named Rex around Soho.
Twentysomething Lauren begins dating a TV producer named Lucien, who turns out to be the Devil, bringing temptation to her and misery to her friends.
Two detectives investigate a bizarre series of deaths, in which three victims — all killed on subsequent evenings — had vital organs removed. The organs had been transplanted and carried out by Dr Richard Harris, and the only other patient who had received a transplant was 21-year old student Leila Haze.
Saul Darrow visits an elderly immigrant, setting off a chain of horrific events.
Moving into a new housing estate with his mother, Jake befriends Sadie, who tells him the Devil himself lives on their block, when he questions a series of mysterious deaths.
Youths Sidney and Spike break into a mental home, and a nurse under the impression they were residents trying to escape begins experimenting on them.
After a case in which a policeman is killed by a 'wolf boy', police doctor Miranda Sharpe and animal behaviourist David Stillman are drawn in to examine the boy. Miranda begins to find herself attracted to him, and after being scratched, David soon discovers hairs sprouting all over his body.
Five slackers are summoned to detention by the fearsome Mr Rogers. Left to work on a project, the five begin, but only moments later, they find Rogers' decapitated body.
A working-class family from the city leave for a new life in a small leafy town. Things seem to be going well until their daughter begins to question why the town is so perfect, and why their dog keeps finding strange pieces of meat...
An aspiring crime lord wants to join the ranks of London's legendary criminals, but in order to be initiated into the exclusive Boy's Club, he must kill his father.
After a phantom pregnancy, and learning that another would be impossible, Jane begins to discover who her partner Peter really is.
A journalist seeking a scoop to launch his career gets a tip that leads him to 'File 42'. However, he's informed that 'File 42' doesn't really exist, just made-up stories. It soon transpires that this story has been floating around for a very long time.
As a 'touch the car' endurance test enters its fourth night, the will to win for the remaining four contestants clouds their moral standing.
A government department secretly works on a project to search the human genome for Creation itself. However, 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 cells for the night, the duty team learn that their charge is a shapeshifter who takes the form of any human he feeds on. Before long, the cops have to figure out which of them is really a wolf in uniform.
A bright young psychiatrist sets out to cure a young woman suffering from a compulsive disorder. 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 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?.
An agent investigates 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.
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