Strangeland

Dee Snyder, duh...

If you know Dee Snider. You know he fronted Twisted Sister. If you also know the album Stay Hungry. Then you know Captain Howdy. The song Horror-Teria (The Beginning): A) Captain Howdy B) Street Justice. Is based upon this film. Dee Snider has a great cast Kevin Gage , Elizabeth Pena, Robert England and himself. Although Stay hungry is an 80s album. Strangeland Is based in the 90's internet chat room. If anyone wants to know how we done it before broadband. Get a glimpse. In the way we did things. Watch and see how fast dial up was.

I'm not even going to apologize for liking this movie. Being a horror fan and a heavy metal fan, the movie as a whole fell comfortably into that dark spot inside me and left me with a satisfying taste in my mouth.Carleton Hendricks, aka Captain Howdy, (played by Dee Snyder) is a twisted fiend obsessed with finding a higher spiritual plain through piercings, tattoos...and torture. He doesn't wish for the death of his victims, he wishes for his own death, which makes him a nasty antagonist indeed.When Captain Howdy lures young Genny Gage into his lair, it seems he has selected the wrong victim, for Genny's father Mike (played by Kevin Gage) is a police detective. Mike hunts down Captain Howdy and rescues his daughter, but Howdy is insane and gets sent to an asylum rather than prison.Without giving too much away, the movie will go on to question whether the beast inside can be contained, or whether it is just held behind the bars of medicine. Another very interesting dilemma brought to light, is whether or not it is a crime to ignore a crime; and what would the consequences be for you if you did.Although the movie is a little bit flat in some facets such as dialogue and some weak plot smatterings, overall it is richly filmed and well acted. Kevin Gage, Robert Englund, and Elizabeth Pena hold up the cast with skill, and Snyder does a rather decent job himself; especially as the psychotic Capt Howdy half of Carleton Hendricks. Look for a brief but well done job by pretty girl Amy Smart. (Road Trip)Rather than compare this movie to Silence of the Lambs, I would say it was closer to The Cell (but with better acting), or perhaps the original Manhunter, in that it gives us a brief glimpse of the lamb inside the wolf.As for the horror, the movie makes up for its lack of blood by terrifying us with an unwelcome and horrifyingly disgusting buffalo shot of Robert Englund in his underwear. That alone made me toss my lunch harder than any brain eating scene could have done.If you like creepy horror villains, scenes of torture, and a glimpse into the psychotic all set to a heavy metal soundtrack, then you will probably like this movie. Watch for Captain Howdy's full size puppet scene! Enjoy!

I'm a SMF. So I had to have this. Met the Man in 2011. Totally cool guy and Rock God. Movie is sick and twisted just like a good horror flick should be.

I watch this movie years ago. I finally bought it. I love this movie. The DVD is perfect. Were I live in Arizona my internet always crashes. So I have a collection of DVD movies to watch when the Internet crashes. Sometimes my internet will be down for days. If I didn't have my collection of DVD movies, I die of boredom. Lol. Dee Snider in this movie is awesome!!! I love gory horror movies.

Classic 90s horror movie I watch again and again since I was a kid and it gets better every time. Definitely recommend especially to horror movie buffs

Powerful, intense and dark; this is a film about a Sadomasochistic serial killer known as Capt. Howdy, played by Dee Snider, who kidnaps teens and is taken to new fetishistic dark levels of torture in his torture death chambers of his house's basement.Until he crosses the line by ending up kidnapping a cop's daughter. Now the cop is on a race against time to save his daughter from this sadistic man.Will he save her in time? Will Capt. Howdy be truly rehabilitated in a later scene? Will Capt. Howdy find the answers in life and death through cathartic sadism and masochism in the search for a dark higher power? Does the cop survive the fight against Howdy?Come in if you dare and watch the movie to find out! Also, check out an potential yet to be determined release of Strangeland 2. It's gonna get interesting if the movie will be released like they said they would.

Ummm I didn't even realize until now that I even purchased this! Must of been my husband. Honestly it was a blah movie really not that great.