

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.


Oct 22, 2001 - 30m
As a 'touch the car' endurance test enters its fourth night, the will to win for the remaining four contestants clouds their moral standing.

Oct 29, 2001 - 30m
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.

Nov 5, 2001 - 30m
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.

Nov 12, 2001 - 30m
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.

Nov 19, 2001 - 30m
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.

Dec 25, 2001 - 30m
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?

Nov 26, 2001 - 30m
A sinister guidance counsellor tests teenagers to see if they could become serial killers — but are these tests reliable?.

Dec 28, 2001 - 30m
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.

Dec 28, 2001 - 30m
Jude continues his quest against 'the heart' and must face his lost love and his arch-nemesis.