The case takes an unexpected turn when Tiana's car is pulled out of a lake with Tiana's tortured body inside and no sign of Genevieve. With the assistance of a younger cop named Steve Christian, Gage begins searching for Genevieve and Tiana. When neither Genevieve nor Tiana returns home by the next morning, Genevieve's mother, Toni, alerts her husband, local cop Mike Gage. After chatting with another apparent student who goes by the screen name of "Captain Howdy," Genevieve and Tiana decide to attend a party at Captain Howdy's house, which is a trap. Accordingly, a large amount of dialogue of the film's villain (concerning his personal philosophy) are paraphrases or direct quotations of Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement.įifteen-year-old Genevieve Gage and her best friend Tiana Moore are typical high school students in Helverton, Colorado who spend their idle time chatting with strangers in chat rooms. The film has a strong emphasis on the Modern Primitive subculture and its ethos of spiritual transcendence through painful rites, showing several such different practices therein. The film centers around a police detective trying to save his city, as well as his daughter, from an online predator who enjoys bringing "enlightenment" through ritual pain. that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat? Yes.Strangeland is a 1998 American horror film written by Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow. We ask the question: does it have a cast of top notch actor? No. If you are a fan of the music or just looking for a good horror movie ( a thing quite hard to come about these days) this movie is for you. It ends with the first new Twisted Sister song in a long time with all the original members. The soundtrack and movie starts with a dark and dim solo outing from Snider that sets the mood of the movie. The soundtrack combines today's great metal acts with yesterdays classic styling. With every good horror movie comes a good soundtrack and this is no acceptation. Definitely not for the faint of heart of the squeamish. Some may not even make it past the movie's box which features a picture of a girl with her mouth sewn shut. There is something here to make just about everyone turn there head in disgust. What we have here is a trip through Sniders sick and twisted mind. So again Howdy goes after Gages daughter and Englund. Target #1 for Howdy, seek revenge on Gage who could have stopped the whole thing but decided to just sit back and watch. Well the death of Howdy is unsuccessful and Howdy becomes his same old self again. As fate would have it Gage sees the whole thing happen. Wanting to see the demise of Howdy an angry mob breaks into his house and take him away. Along comes Robert Englund as a redneck beer drinking slob who decides to take matters into his own hands. But the towns folk want nothing to do with him and want to see him dead. Four years later Howdy is released a new man. Through the help of his niece (Amy Smart) he tracks down Howdy and takes him into custody. Well after the girls go missing the one girls father, Inspector Gage (played by Kevin Gage) goes on a search for his daughter. Well of course Howdy being the strange and sick person he is invite's the two girl's to a party where he later inflicts all kinds of disturbing pain and torment. But all that aside it is the story of two girls who one night meet our antagonist, Captain Howdy ( played here by Snider himself). This is a fairly unknown movie because the NC-17 rating didn't give it much help at the box office and lets admit it people, S&M doesn't exactly make for good clean family entertainment. "Dee Snider's Strangeland" a movie he not only wrote but produced and starred in as well. But he has shifted gear, this time he is writing a movie. Now brings us to 1998 where Snider has began to write again. Snider brought us such great anthems as "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock". For those of you who don't know, or maybe just don't remember Dee Snider was the head of the famous old school metal band Twisted Sister.
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