StrangeLand (1998)
Average Rating: 2.2/10
Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 16
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 3
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Dee Snider, of the Twisted Sister heavy metal music group, made his debut as a screenwriter and producer with this horror film, directed by John Pieplow. A psycho on the Internet uses the handle, "Captain Howdy" (Snider), an obvious reference to the unseen Ouija board spirit in The Exorcist (1973). After the abduction of his daughter Genevieve (Linda Cardellini), detective Mike Gage (Kevin Gage) is on the case, joined by detective Christian (Brett Harrelson). Kidnapper Captain Howdy is
Oct 2, 1998 Wide
Mar 23, 1999
Artisan Entertainment
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Dee Snider
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Elizabeth Peña
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Robert Englund
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Linda Cardellini
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Amy Smart
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Archie Smith
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All Critics (18) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (16) | DVD (5)
It's a disturbing, hopeless, irredeemable series of images that will scar you if you wander into it unprepared.
Top CriticThis terrible horror film pretends to tell a moral about internet chat rooms, but really it's a cheap C grade slasher flick.
a little too messy for me
Snider's Captain Howdy is an appropriately scary creation, but the movie mostly lets him down.
After the agonizing torture that was endured I can safely make the statement that Strangeland is now and will be the worst film of 1998.
Painful to endure even by modern primitive standards, it's a freaky, funless wreck, intolerable in the extreme.
Twisted Sister's Dee Snider makes a movie -- a must-see, right? Wrong-o!
The kind of movie where you want to take a bath after watching.
Perhaps if I hadn't expected it to be so bad I might have approved of it less.
Entry into the realm of disappointing horror videos.
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worth seeing. Strangeland isn't a bad film, but considering the concept, it makes you wonder how much potential this flick really had.