![]() Kelly Roth ends up coming home, the wet lynching rope breaks, and after his near-death experience, Hendricks is once again Captain Howdy. Strangely, Roth never asks Hendricks where his daughter is being held before offing him. His old neighbors do not believe in reformation, and when Jackson Roth’s (Robert Englund) daughter, Kelly, misses curfew, he gets a bunch of his redneck buddies together and they storm Hendrick’s house lynching the poor bastard in the rain. ![]() The meds work, and he is back out on the streets after only four years as docile Carlton, the cardigan wearing milquetoast. Howdy! A newspaper montage tells the audience that Captain Howdy is really Carlton Hendricks, and an insanity plea gets him sent to an insane asylum rather than jail. He also sees the Captain in his tattooed, pierced, mohawked glory, all the while waxing philosophical about the need for more pain and pleasure in society. He breaks in and finds not only Genevieve but a bunch of other teens – tied up, strapped down or caged in, all of their lips sewn shut and pierced in uncomfortable places. The next day, Gage gets a PM calling him out as a cop, but a synchronized barking dog points him to the house right next door to where the Detective is parked. Gage gets himself an invite to one of the captain’s keggers, and with the SWAT Team busts in, only to find a little old couple in the middle of private bedroom activities. Back at the station, Gage investigates the last website his daughter visited, and after some help from his niece on the Ways of the Internet, makes a fake teenage girl profile and trolls her last contact – Captain Howdy himself. They find nothing but loud music, tattoos and day-glo skin. After getting a lesson about piercings, scarification and other such body modifications from a local tow truck driver, Gage and his partner pay a visit to Xibalba, the local Bod Mod club. Along with the girl, they find a septum piercing the size of a human pinky finger. It is not until he finds Tiana in the trunk of her own car and submerged at the bottom of the lake that he really starts to worry. When neither of them return home, Genevieve’s mom, Toni (Elizabeth Pena) is worried, but Homicide detective dad Mike Gage (Kevin Gage) is too involved in his current police case to give the matter much thought. They meet Captain Howdy, a cool guy who likes keggers and snowboarding, and after a minute long correspondence, decide to go to a party at the Captain’s house. ![]() The ultimate internet safety video, Strangeland starts off with Genevieve Gage (Cardellini) and her friend Tiana (Amal Rhoe) chatting online with random strangers. He also incorporated his love for music by compiling an awesome soundtrack, on top of the score by Anton Sanko ( The Possession 2012) with songs from such as Anthrax, Sevendust, Megadeth, Marilyn Manson and Eminem, which does wonders to setting the mood in Captain Howdy’s lair. Not only did the original Freddy Krueger take part in this film, but Snider also incorporated the famous line, “What a rush!” from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warrior (1987) and made reference to the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise itself with the line, “First you dream, then you die.” There is even a plug for The Exorcist’s (1973) Captain Howdy, which was the name of the spirit Reagan talked to through the Ouija board. Snider obviously has a love for horror films based on the nods he gives to some of the classics in Strangeland. Starring Kevin Gage ( May 2002), Linda Cardellini ( Freaks & Geeks series), Elizabeth Pena ( Jacobs Ladder 1990) and Robert Englund ( A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984), Strangeland brought in just over $370,000 in its first weekend and rates 63% positive audience score at Rotten Tomatoes. ![]() Written and starring Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow, Strangerland‘s script is based loosely on the Twisted Sister song “Horror-teria” from 1984’s Stay Hungry album. This week in horror movie history Strangeland was released in 315 movie theaters around North American on October 2nd 1998. ![]()
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