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| Strangeland | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | John Pieplow |
| Written by | Dee Snider |
| Produced by | Larry Meistrich David L. Bushell Dee Snider |
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| Cinematography | Goran Pavicevic |
| Edited by | Jeff Kushner Joe Woo, Jr. |
| Music by | Anton Sanko |
| Production | Shooting Gallery |
| Distributed by | Raucous Releasing Artisan Amusement Behaviour Communications |
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| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Land | United States |
| Language | English |
| Upkeep | $ane.1 meg[ citation needed ] |
| Box role | $713,239[1] |
Strangeland is a 1998 American horror motion-picture show written by Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow. The film centers around a law detective trying to relieve his city, as well as his daughter, from an online predator who enjoys bringing "enlightenment" through ritual hurting.
The film has a strong emphasis on the Modern Archaic subculture and its ethos of spiritual transcendence through painful rites, showing several such different practices therein. Accordingly, a big amount of dialogue of the film'south villain (concerning his personal philosophy) are paraphrases or direct quotations of Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive motility.
Plot [edit]
Fifteen-year-old Genevieve Cuff and her best friend Tiana Moore are typical high schoolhouse students in Helverton, Colorado who spend their idle time chatting with strangers in chat rooms. Afterwards chatting with some other apparent student who goes by the screen name of "Captain Howdy," Genevieve and Tiana decide to attend a party at Helm Howdy's firm, which is a trap. When neither Genevieve nor Tiana returns abode past the adjacent morning, Genevieve'southward mother, Toni, alerts her husband, local cop Mike Gage. With the assistance of a younger cop named Steve Christian, Gage begins searching for Genevieve and Tiana. The case takes an unexpected plough when Tiana's machine is pulled out of a lake with Tiana'south tortured body inside and no sign of Genevieve.
Mike discovers that Captain How-do-you-do is into "torso art," including pregnant tattooing, piercing, branding, and scarification. Just it is non until Mike'southward niece Angela Stravelli informs him of Genevieve'southward penchant for meeting strangers through the Cyberspace that Mike gets his first lead. Meeting the Helm Howdy online, Mike attempts to get Captain Howdy to invite him to a party. Despite the plan going awry, he later figures out Captain Hi's location and finds his torture chamber. There, Gage finds Genevieve naked and leap, with her mouth stitched shut, as well as five other teenagers who are in like predicaments. After a cursory struggle in which Captain Howdy gets shot, Mike arrests him and discovers his real name is Carlton Hendricks.
Mike thinks he has closed the instance. Merely a year later on, Hendricks is alleged non guilty by reason of insanity and he is put in the Meistrich Psychiatric Institute, but to exist released three years later. Doctors at the Meistrich Establish land that Hendricks, who has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic with a severe chemical imbalance, is okay as long as he is on his medication. And so, Hendricks moves back to his sometime neighborhood. While taking his medicine, Hendricks is timid and atoning about what he did, just the memories of what Hendricks did are withal fresh in the minds of Helverton's residents. Many people are not happy almost Hendricks's release, especially an activist grouping led by Jackson Roth and Catherine "Sunny" Macintosh.
One night, while Roth'due south teenage daughter, Kelly, is out, a fearful Roth jumps to the determination that Hendricks has taken her. Roth calls Catherine and several others and they kidnap Hendricks. During this, Hendricks accidentally drops his medicine bottle, and it is run over by a car. Roth and the group so beat Hendricks and hang him from a tree. As Roth, Catherine, and the others leave, it starts raining and the rope, which turns out to be weak, snaps, saving Hendricks's life. However, the almost-expiry experience, something he had mentioned hoping to reach before on in the movie, reverts him to being Captain Howdy, this fourth dimension with revenge on his mind.
Afterwards recovering, Hendricks kills Roth'south married woman Madeline in forepart of Roth before knocking him unconscious and then kidnapping him. Hendricks besides kidnaps Catherine before contacting Mike at the law station. After hanging up with Mike, Hendricks brutally tortures Roth and Catherine. The side by side day, Toni calls Mike and tells him that Genevieve is missing. When Mike gets home with Steve, Hendricks's confront is on Toni'due south figurer screen. Hendricks has Genevieve and her mouth is stitched shut once more. Hendricks tortures Genevieve while Mike and Toni spotter the screen. Subsequently Hendricks disconnects, Genevieve, Roth, Catherine and a few other victims are shortly found live, but brutally tortured, past officers responding to a call. That night, after leaving the torture scene, Mike tracks Hendricks dorsum to the club Xibalba. Subsequently a long struggle, Hendricks stands ready to impale Mike with a big meat claw chained to the ceiling. However, Mike sinks the claw into Hendricks's back, slams Hendricks into a wall, then uses the hook to lift Hendricks off the floor. Later Hendricks taunts Mike, Mike pours a flammable liquid on Hendricks, and presumably kills Hendricks by setting him on fire.
Cast [edit]
- Dee Snider as Carlton Hendricks / Helm Howdy
- Linda Cardellini as Genevieve Gage
- Kevin Gage as Detective Mike Gage
- Elizabeth Peña equally Toni Gage
- Brett Harrelson equally Detective Steve Christianson
- Robert Englund as Jackson 'Jack' Roth
- Amy Smart every bit Angela Stravelli
- Tucker Smallwood as Captain Churchill Robbins / Fetish Homo With Studded Hood
- Ivonne Coll as Rose Stravelli
- Robert LaSardo as Matt Myers, Tow-Truck Driver
- J Cooch Lucchese as Xibalba Bouncer / Band Member of Bile
- Barbara Champion as Catherine 'Sunny' MacIntosh
- Amal Rhoe every bit Tiana Moore
Soundtrack [edit]
- Dee Snider – "Inconclusion"
- Sevendust – "Breathe"
- Megadeth – "A Secret Place"
- Pantera – "Where You Come up From"
- Anthrax – "Piss N Vinegar"
- Snot – "Absent"
- dayinthelife... – "Street Justice"
- Coal Chamber – "Not Living"
- Bile – "In League"
- Marilyn Manson – "Sweet Tooth"
- Soulfly – "Eye for an Centre"
- Hed PE – "Serpent Male child" (Radio Edit)
- Kid Rock – "Fuck Off", featuring Eminem
- The Clay People – "Awake"
- Organization of a Down – "Marmalade"
- Nashville Pussy – "I'm the Man"
- Crunch – "Helm Howdy"
- Twisted Sister – "Heroes Are Hard to Observe"
Other songs recorded/used in the motion picture but non present on the official CD:
- Lawn Babies – "Highlights" (credited at the terminate of the movie)
- Crisis – "Methodology" (credited at the end of the picture show)
- Paw – "Street Justice" (recorded for the movie; wasn't used for the film nor the CD)
Concept [edit]
The motion-picture show'south conceptual basis has its roots in the fourth track on Twisted Sis's 1984 release Stay Hungry. The song, entitled "Horror-Teria (The Beginning): A) Captain Howdy B) Street Justice", tells the story of a sadistic child murderer named Captain Hullo who ultimately walks gratis on a technicality and is and so avenged upon past an outraged mob of parents. A line from the song, spoken by Howdy to one of his victims, carries over into the pic afterward he stitches Genevieve's mouth shut: "At that place...that's meliorate!" The overall tale of the song and character has similarities with that of A Nightmare on Elm Street and the backstory of Freddy Krueger, although the picture show debuted in theaters half dozen months later the release of Stay Hungry. The name "Captain Howdy" was taken from The Exorcist, wherein it is the name used early on by the Mesopotamian demon king, Pazuzu, who ultimately possesses Reagan MacNeil.
The Helm Howdy character differs significantly from one medium to another: the song's villain is presented as a cold-blooded monster who is fully in control of his actions and is a traditional killer with no mention of torso modifications; conversely, the film portrays a mentally imbalanced human whose motivations are more on par with that of a would-be cult leader. He doesn't initially set out to kill anyone, instead intending to "assistance" them through forced body modifications and ritualistic pain in the name of transcendental enlightenment, albeit for his ain sadistic pleasance.
Filming [edit]
The setting for the film takes place in the fictional city of Helverton, Colorado, and was filmed in the Colorado Springs and Denver vicinity. The order scenes for Xibalba were filmed at Denver'southward Church nightclub, and Strangeland was the first TSG Pictures and Artisan DVD release.
Snider had to sit in the makeup chair for several hours every day to be transformed into Captain Howdy. All of the tattoos, brandings, filed teeth, and body piercings were fake, apart from his septum, which he did indeed have pierced. However, his septum piercing was a standard 14g, and a special slice of jewelry was made to requite it the appearance of being around 00g. The septum spike discovered past Christianson, all the same, is visibly more around 1/2 inch to 5/8 inch.
Reception [edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, half-dozen% of sixteen critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 2.7/10.[2] Although the film took reward of the inherent dangers of what was at that time the burgeoning precursor to social network platforms, many plant the story overly contrived and emotionally flat. This was coupled with what was perceived equally poor interim and direction and cheap and unconvincing makeup furnishings, also as a considerable number of modified people taking crime to the way in which their community was presented.[ commendation needed ]
During its box office run, it grossed $713,239, opening at 315 theaters in N America.[1]
Sequel [edit]
Every bit of May 2015, a sequel, titled Strangeland: Disciple, was in development by Emaji Amusement and TSG Entertainment, to be distributed by Lionsgate. Snider planned to have it rated NC-17 and later release an R-rated version for wider exposure. He believed this unusual marketing strategy would create buzz for the "original" NC-17 version.[3] Equally of 2022, any and all plans for a sequel have been scrapped.
Comic [edit]
Snider released a comic book prequel, Dee Snider's Strangeland: Seven Sins, through Fangoria Comics, merely the company suddenly closed after only the starting time outcome was printed. The Scream Manufacturing plant then picked up the championship and published the full run in 2008.
References [edit]
- ^ a b Strangeland at Box Role Mojo
- ^ "Strangeland". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media.
- ^ "DEE SNIDER'southward 'Strangeland' Horror Pic Gets A Reboot", from Blabbermouth.net
External links [edit]
- Strangeland at IMDb
- Strangeland at Box Office Mojo
- Strangeland at Rotten Tomatoes
- Strangeland at BME Encyclopedia
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangeland_%28film%29
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