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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
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.
This 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.
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.
The kind of movie where you want to take a bath after watching.
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!
Strangeland written by Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame is a fairly interesting horror flick. The premise is a predator played by Snider and nicknamed Captain Howdy who scours internet chat room for teens that he invites to a party so he can torture them in Sadomasochistic ways. A film with plenty of potential,
March 24, 2011
Super Reviewer
So much flesh, so little time.
December 15, 2009
Super Reviewer
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