They weren't made, by the way, partly because of the film's sluggish second half, in which Howdy appears to be running a race in which everyone else is crawling on their backs.
Kind of a shame that more Strangeland movies weren't made. Snider appears to be having a lot of fun, pontificating like a megalomaniacal Batman villain, and is a good fit for the movie. Captain Howdy is much more interesting than anyone else in the movie, even redneck Jackson Roth, played by Robert Englund. Play trailer 1:16 3 Videos 31 Photos Horror Thriller A detective pursues a sadist specializing in body modification rituals who lures teenagers through the internet. From there on out, it's a cat-but-mostly-mouse game.
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Turns out the guy's really into S&M, such as putting pins through people's skin and suspending them from a ceiling or in a really small stand-up cage. Very little cat and mouse follows, and it isn't long before Mike finds the good Captain, who's as wacked as you'd expect him to be, what with the sadistic attitude (setting aside the facial tattoos and multiple piercings). It doesn't take them long, because all they have to do is visit the same chat room, and using the leet hacker skillz of cousin Angela (Amy Smart), find the name of the last person to whom Genevieve chatted, strike up a conversation, and away they go. Genevieve's dad happens to be a cop named Mike Gage (Kevin Gage), and he and his rambunctious young partner try desperately to find Genevieve. However, Gage knows it is only a matter of time before Howdy strikes again, and he’s ready to unleash his own form of retribution when the time comes. Deemed insane, he is sent to an asylum but is released soon after, seemingly better. Her friend Genevieve (Linda Cardellini) is nowhere to be found. When Howdy kidnaps and tortures the daughter of police Detective Mike Gage, he is caught. The girls go missing, and soon teen Tiana (Amal Roe) is found in the trunk of her own submerged car, hands and feet bound and mouth sewn shut. Seems legit! I mean, his profile information makes him look like a cool dude! What could possibly go wrong? A lot, turns out. He invites them to a party, and naturally they accept. Two teenage girls, in the early years of the Internet, encounter someone calling themselves Captain Howdy in an online chat room. Oddly enough, though, the result is a passable representative of the genre, with Snider's Captain Howdy a memorable, if underexplored, villain. It's also a bloody horror movie, which can be hit or miss for even the most fervent of fans. Its star and writer is Dee Snider, formerly the frontman for the metal band Twisted Sister and not known for his acting. It was hard to expect a lot from Strangeland.
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