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Strangeland is a 1998 American psychological thriller film written by Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow. It focuses on the body modification underground culture's rituals, and a large amount of dialogue of the films villain are paraphrasements or direct quotations of Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement. It was filmed in the Colorado Springs and Denver vicinity, including the club scenes which were filmed at Denver's Church nightclub, and was the first TSG Pictures and Artisan DVD release.

Plot

15-year-old Genevieve Gage and her best friend, Tiana Moore, are typical high school students in Helverton, Colorado. The pair spend their idle time listening to music and going online, and Genevieve is a regular visitor to online chat rooms. As the pair are hanging out one night, Genevieve begins chatting with an online friend who goes by the alias of Captain Howdy (Dee Snider). He invites the pair to a party at his house, and although Tiana is reluctant to go to a strangers house, Genevieve insists that times have changed and that she is being overly cautious.

When neither returns home by the next morning, Genevieve's mother, Toni, alerts her husband, local Detective Mike Gage (Kevin Gage). With the assistance of a younger Detective named Steve Christianson (Brett Harrelson), Gage begins searching for Genevieve and Tiana. 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.

Detective Christianson discovers a large gauge piece of body jewelry next to Tiana's corpse that is identified as a "septum spike" by the heavily tattooed tow-truck driver (Robert LaSardo) on the scene. He proceeds to explain the modern primitive subculture to the detectives, and asserts that the owner of the spike is a member of the community. He also gives them the location of a downtown nightclub, Xibalba, where the modified community hangs out. They investigate the club, but find no promising suspects. Unbeknownst to the Detectives is that Captain Howdy is in attendance at the club, participating in a body suspension ritual in a back room.

Mike's niece Angela Stravelli (Amy Smart) informs him of Genevieve's penchant for meeting strangers through the Internet which gives Mike his first solid lead. Angela assists her uncle in setting up a fake online profile, and posing as a student, he communicates with Captain Howdy. Despite his attempt at deception, Howdy quickly deduces that this is a police snare, and invites Gage to the same party he invited Genevieve to. The plan goes awry, as Howdy has given them a false address knowing that it was all an attempt at a sting. The next morning, Howdy contacts Mike addressing him as a Cop, and toys with him further, but also gives away his location in the process. Gage enters Howdy's home and finds his torture chamber, which has six local missing teenagers within; nude, shackled, and "gagged" via their lips being sewn shut. Genevieve being one of them. They have all been tortured in various body-modification based ways. As Detective Gage begins to free his daughter, he is ambushed from behind and momentarily knocked unconscious by Captain Howdy, and his gun bounces away from him as he falls. As Howdy is securing Genevieve's bonds, Mike comes to and Captain Howdy is revealed in his entirety for the first time. His body is heavily modified with extensive body and facial tattoos, body piercings, branding, and teeth filed to points. A brief struggle ensues in which Captain Howdy gets shot, subdued by Mike, and arrested. Howdy expresses to Mike that he is a man who lives without fear because his one true wish in life is to be dead, and that pain is his only pleasure.

Captain Howdy is revealed to be a man named Carlton Hendricks, whom after a lengthy and controversial court case, is declared not guilty by reason of insanity and he is mandated to the Meistrich Psychiatric Institute, only to be released after three years upon being deemed as totally cured. Local outcry and general dissaproval also leads to the closing of club Xibalba during the ensuing months. Hendricks, who has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic with a severe chemical imbalance, exhibits no symptoms of his mental condition while on anti-psychotic medication which suppresses his sadistic alter ego of Captain Howdy. His transformation being pontificated by a normalised dress, and daily application of makeup to conceal Captain Howdy's facial tattoos.

Upon his release, Hendricks moves back to his home in Helverton, which has been heavily vandalized by the community in his absence. Hendricks is genuinely remorseful and ashamed about what Captain Howdy has done, but the memories are still fresh in the minds of Helverton's residents, and many refuse to believe he was ever unable to control his actions. A local activist group led by Jackson Roth (Robert Englund) and Catherine "Sunny" Macintosh, are Hendricks' main opponents, being that they feel he should have received life in prison or the death sentence for his crimes. It is also alluded to earlier in the film, and later revealed, that Captain Howdy had raped Genevieve while she was in his custody.

One night Roth's teenage daughter, Kelly, stays out past curfew with her boyfriend which leads the contemptuous Roth to jump to the conclusion that Hendricks has taken her. He calls some buddies, and they form a lynch mob with Sunny's assistance and storm Hendricks' house and kidnap him. During this, Hendricks accidentally drops his medication, and it is run over by a car. Detective Gage witnesses the abduction of Hendricks from his post, but after a brief internal battle, he drops his dispatch radio and does not report it. Hendricks spots Gage doing so. Roth and the group then take Hendricks to a wooded area and beat and hang him from a tree. Roth, Sunny, and the others watch in joy as Hendricks flails about and goes limp. A heavy rain storm moves in as they leave the body hanging. Hendricks' noose has been thrown over a weak and cracked branch, and this coupled with the rain and his body weight, cause it to snap. He regains consciousness, but with the combination of brain and emotional trauma as well as the near-death experience, Captain Howdy's deepest pleasure, his alter ego completely takes over...this time set on revenge.

After recovering, Captain Howdy kills Roth's wife Madeline, and uses her corpse to knock him unconscious and then kidnaps him. Howdy also kidnaps Sunny before contacting Mike at the police station to let him know that he has returned. After hanging up with Mike, Hendricks brutally tortures Roth and Sunny. The next day, Toni calls Mike and asks him why he pulled their daughter out of school early, as she just got a call in regards to it. Mike has no clue what she is talking about, and they in unsion have the same horrible revelation, and Mike speeds home with his partner. When Mike gets home with Steve, Howdy's face is on the computer screen. Howdy has Genevieve and her mouth is stitched shut again, and he proceeds to torture Genevieve while Mike and Toni watch the screen. Toni pleads with Captain Howdy and demands to know what Genevieve ever did to him. Howdy quickly retorts that "SHE didn't do a thing!", implying that it was Mike's allowance of Hendricks' lynching that has brought this on his daughter this time. Howdy disconnects before a trace can be completed, but his new torture chamber is discovered some time later by officers responding to a call of break in at a derelict warehouse space. They discover Roth, Sunny, Genevieve and several others who have all been brutally tortured in Howdy's modus operandi of body modification based techniques.

Upon his arrival at the crime scene, Mike finds a cryptic message written for him within a promotional matchbook for Xibalba, and goes after Howdy alone. Gage arrives at the club, gains entrance, and has a standoff with Captain Howdy wherein Gage berates him for being a coward whom picks on the weak, as a result of his own persecution complex. After a long struggle, Howdy stands ready to kill Mike with a large body suspension hook rigged to a ceiling wench. However, Mike gets the upper hand by ripping out Captain Howdy's septum piercing, sinks the hook into Howdy's back, slams him into a wall, and then uses the winch to hoist Howdy up into the air. Captain Howdy remains defiant to the end, taunting Mike by stating "I bet Genevieve felt like this, when I was inside her!". Mike battles his morals and sense of duty for a brief moment, as Howdy urges him to arrest him once more while laughing, knowing that he'll probably get minimal punishment. Mike makes a silent decision and picks up an oil lamp and douses Howdy's legs with the contents. Captain Howdy watches in fear as Mike strikes a match and says "This is for Genevieve, you fuck!", and then tosses the match at his legs, igniting him. Howdy flails and screams in agony as he continues to swing about on the meat hook, until he is overtaken by lack of oxygen and goes limp, continuing to burn and hang.

Cast

Soundtrack

Reception

Sequel

A sequel, titled Strangeland: Disciple, is being produced by Emaji Entertainment and TSG Entertainment and distributed by Lionsgate, as of May 2015. Dee Snider plans to have it rated NC-17, and later release an R-rated version for wider exposure. He believes this unusual marketing strategy will create buzz for the "original" NC-17 version.^[3]

Comic

Snider released a comic book prequel, Dee Snider's Strangeland: Seven Sins through Fangoria Comics, but the company suddenly closed after only the first issue was printed. The Scream Factory then picked up the title and published the full run in 2008.

References

1. ^Strangeland at Rotten Tomatoes
2. ^¹{{mojo title|strangeland|Strangeland}}
3. ^"DEE SNIDER's 'Strangeland' Horror Film Gets A Reboot", from Blabbermouth.net

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