Strangeland (film)
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| Directed by | John Pieplow |
| Produced by |
Larry Meistrich David L. Bushell Dee Snider |
| Written by | Dee Snider |
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| Music by | Anton Sanko |
| Cinematography | Goran Pavicevic |
| Edited by | Jeff Kushner Joe Woo, Jr. |
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Shooting Gallery
Snider Than Thou Productions |
| Distributed by | Raucous Releasing Artisan Entertainment Behaviour Communications |
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Running time
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87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.1 million |
| Box office | $713,239 |
Strangeland is a 1998 American horror film written by Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow. It focuses on the body modification underground culture's rituals. It was filmed in the Colorado Springs and Denver vicinity, and was the first TSG Pictures and Artisan DVD release.
15-year-old Genevieve Gage and her best friend Tiana Moore are typical high school students in Helverton, Colorado who spend their idle time chatting with strangers in chat rooms. After chatting with another apparent student who goes by the screen name of "Captain Howdy," Genevieve and Tiana decide to attend a party at Captain Howdy's house, which is a trap. However, when neither Genevieve nor Tiana returns home by the next morning, Genevieve's mother, Toni, alerts her husband, local cop Mike Gage (Kevin Gage). With the assistance of a younger cop named Steve Christian (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.
Mike discovers that Captain Howdy (Dee Snider) is into "body art," including significant tattooing, piercing, branding, and scarification. But it is not until Mike's niece Angela Stravelli (Amy Smart) informs him of Genevieve's penchant for meeting strangers through the Internet that Mike gets his first lead. Meeting the Captain Howdy online, Mike attempts to get Captain Howdy to invite him to a party. Despite the plan going awry, he later figures out Captain Howdy's location and finds his torture chamber. There, Gage finds Genevieve naked and bound, with her mouth stitched shut, as well as five other teenagers who are in similar predicaments. After a brief struggle in which Captain Howdy gets shot, Mike arrests him and discovers his real name is Carlton Hendricks.
Mike thinks he has closed the case. But a year later, Hendricks is declared not guilty by reason of insanity and he is put in the Meistrich Psychiatric Institute, only to be released three years later. Doctors at the Meistrich Institute state that Hendricks, who has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic with a severe chemical imbalance, is okay as long as he is on his medication. So, Hendricks moves back to his old neighborhood. While taking his medicine, Hendricks is timid and apologetic about what he did, but the memories of what Hendricks did are still fresh in the minds of Helverton's residents. Many people are not happy about Hendricks release, especially an activist group led by Jackson Roth (Robert Englund) and Catherine "Sunny" Macintosh.
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